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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: More and more signs that most of the people of Greater Vegas are left out of the discussion, the question is whether they want in, and if so how to make sure that happens in The Right Way. Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo PodLink for Caffe Genius Impressarios https://pod....

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We talked about visibility, transparency, and observability, and a few related topics in previous episodes, the part we get to today is setting up our data sources so we have any chance at all to figure out what’s up. Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo PodLink for Caffe Gen...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: As the saying goes, “It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness,” perhaps more than one candle, though in modernity it may be multiple flashlights instead, which may also be used to shine focused light on causes and correlations… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/da...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: No, this is not an episode about Marxism. Way back in Episode 0130 we covered The Vegas Bourgeoisie, now is as good a time as any to look at our favorite population, the people doing the work… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo PodLink for Caffe Genius Impressarios https://...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: After several weeks of crafting the parts of the narrative, based on years of observation here in the Greater Vegas area on top of years of participation in the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem of Silicon Valley in the 1990s, the pieces and parts are spread out on our work table to assemble and deploy… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In recent weeks we have talked about data, numbers, plans, and people, and a while back we talked about top-down oversight and organizing a structure for describing and analyzing these. Now, how about if we move toward putting the various silos together into an observable system? Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everyt...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Every once in a while I believe there is value in looking at our environment from some generic vantage point, not only as an entrepreneur in the entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem, but as anyone anywhere in the Greater Vegas area. So let’s give this a try… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buyme...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Was this week Startup Week Las Vegas? Depends on where you look, it might be in February, and this is part of the problem… we should make this whole thing a continuous flow! Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo This one https://startupnv.org/event/startup-week-las-vegas/ This...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This is another visit to the LVGEA 3-Year Economic Diversification Plan published in June and commented upon in a LinkedIn Newsletter that you did not read. So let’s talk about it here… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo LVGEA 3-Year Strategic Plan Direct Link https://lvgea...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The notion that a given population could be split into the Leaders or Doers, the Followers or Enablers, and the Spectators, is easy but not always accurate and certainly not precise. If we are indeed in Ontology mode, we could do better by settling on a Taxonomy that describes a population within a group under specific and varying circumstances. That may not make...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Any community or town, city or county, state or country has a lot of moving parts, progressively more in fact, with visibility not always made easy to the people livinging in these places. Transparency is usually too much to ask for, and forget about observability. Suppose, that an open ontology existed to describe the moving parts and their connections and data...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you find yourself in the Greater Vegas area, you tend to know when something on The Strip is happening, or when anything in the Fun Economy is kicking off, because these are given attention, which means they get more attention. This mechanism should be available to our entrepreneurs and innovators… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Here in Greater Vegas some would like to fancy us an Innovation Hub, perhaps even a Global Innovation Hub, or words to that effect, and some day that may be true. One milestone along the path to that goal is an informed public, and since Innovation figures prominently in our goal, it could figure prominently in the journey… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caf...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A few bits and pieces to update and refresh as this hot summer continues and the number coolness does not. Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The title is obvious, perhaps. Do It Yourself, For Flick Sake. Make a minor edit in there, the point though is this, do not as an entrepreneur or innovator wait for others on high to give you permission or tell you what to do or how to do it. Take a chance, follow your nose, and learn along the way. Then and only then should you be asking for assistance, and even...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: No announcements today, but we are going to talk about some ideas to consider when there are announcements to be made to some or all of Greater Vegas and perhaps beyond. We are, though, always reaching out… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you are at all familiar with the Downtown Project days in lovely Downtown Las Vegas, you probably heard the term Serendipitous Collisions with regard to the people pursuing their startup ideas and others visiting to witness this undertaking, sometimes called City as a Startup. We should revisit that, starting but not ending in this episode. Links Caffe Genius...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This has been on the wish list for too long, the time has come to cast aside the pile that is LinkedIn and commence the journey out into the world wide internets, where the algorithms are different, the velvet rope not present. Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Deprecation...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Somewhere between what is objectively true and what we seem to want to believe is subjectively true is sometimes called hype. This by way of a first pass at Transforming Las Vegas Into A Financial Center by Dr Daniel Chi and Amin Asadi of UNLV… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/da...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If we were to name three most-definitely-not-blind mice, these in the title could work. Or we could simply examine these three ways of looking at, well, anything, but especially our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem and its surroundings… Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhug...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A somewhat sensational title, this is not really proof so much as a few examples, but of what Motivated Reasoning is and how it can be used effectively… in Greater Vegas. (Correction: Las Vegas population is closer to 680K not 580K -dh) Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo La...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Difficult to locate just yet, but the LVGEA has published some plans that seem to match the Key Industries we have mentioned previously (the associated web page on the LVGEA website no longer there), as a way forward for continuing Economic Diversity efforts. But where will the water come from? Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Technically this is a plural wrong numbers scenario, but that doesn’t sound as good for a title. If you have not consumed Episode 0166 of this program, “Show Me Data,” the links from that episode might come in handy, though today is not so much about the published numbers, only that they are the wrong numbers to wait on. Got it? Links Caffe Genius Homepage https:...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The to-do list continues to grow, attempts to reach out are diversifying, and being Entrepreneurial and Innovative still take a lot of work, will this all be worthwhile? Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A few observations about some things that appear to be missing in action, either not to be found, or not easy to discover. Both are problematic in different ways, and both can be solved, or addressed, with a modicum of effort from a small, interested crowd. Links Caffe Genius Homepage https://caffegenius.org HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymea...