Alaska Fellows Program News Today

I. There are a lot of really big houses (6+ bedrooms) on the market for around a million dollars, or sometimes less. Like this three-story, seven-bedroom house just outside Albany, NY, which recently sold for $1,181,300. Or this ten-bedroom house just south of Boston, MA, which recently sold for $990,000. Or this eight-bedroom house in…

“Hey, let’s grab lunch next week!” It’s a fairly standard text message that is sent and received countless times each day. But when Matthew Robinson read it, he laughed out loud. The sender lives 2,846 air miles away from Anchorage, in Chicago, Illinois. “I’ve told him that I’m in Alaska, he knows,” said Robinson. “I’ve sent my friends photos, they’ve seen the posts on social

Despite a year marred by lockdowns, travel bans, job losses and business closures, Alaska’s regional business plan competitions did not miss a beat. Entrepreneurs showed up to connect, learn, and hustle, and organizers got creative to adapt their programs to run in a virtual format.