A river built Idaho Power. Now batteries, a 290-mile transmission line and the timing of everyday demand are shaping what comes next.
Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco. Different signs, one grocery business. After a $24.6 billion merger fell apart, Albertsons must make the machinery behind the neighborhood store work harder.
A product, an audience, and a very particular split of the proceeds. Inside the Boise company that turns other people’s selling skills into an e-commerce business.
Tuuti Agency grew by selling stories. Then founder Shawnda Huffman discovered the harder product was a team that could deliver them - without losing the human touch that made the agency worth hiring.
Red Sky built a Boise agency around a useful suspicion: the story a client wants to tell is not always the story its audience needs to hear. So it researches first, then decides whether the answer is a pitch, a training room, a public meeting - or a blue umbrella opened in the Seattle rain.
Stoltz Marketing Group doubled its team and lifted revenue 150 percent after an unplanned succession. The useful part is not the growth. It is the operating system underneath it.
Jason Hausske wants giving to feel less like a year-end tax chore and more like a habit you post about. His bet: philanthropy grows when it stops being private.