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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another stop on the path toward the end of this Nevada legislative session, which includes two pieces of the Hollywood 2.0 puzzle. Will they fit, and should they? Good questions both, and what else might be on the horizon? Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts HOST Dan´s K...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Somewhere between serendipitous collisions and all-day gatherings with free food is a thing that worked well here in the Downtown Vegas area back in the Downtown Project days, bringing together an ad hoc group of entrepreneurial types now and then to break bread and talk about what was up, what was down, and maybe a little bit of gossip. We are bringing that back...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We all have some idea what collaboration is, sometimes abbreviated as “collab,” but what is a colab, which is an abbreviation for “colaboratory,” and what in the world is colab collab colab? Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo H...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It is too early to decide what the near term looks like as a result of state law updates and plans for economic diversity and whatnot, but we can ponder these in the same context in which we have been examining our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem starting now… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Buy Me an Update https://www....

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: While this topic can apply anywhere to a variety of scenarios, the low hanging fruit in the Greater Vegas region, famously connected to development of nuclear stuff a few decades ago at The Nevada Test Site, where critical mass was a very important thing to be aware of. It may also matter when it comes to the development of Economic Diversity in Greater Vegas, wh...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A quick update on in-las.vegas, initiative 2025, the colaboratory, retrospective, and more, all in one for the end of April… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo HOST KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Believe it or not, this episode is somewhat optimistic, with some possibilities that make sense bubbling up to actual news reporting here in the Greater Vegas area. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Manufacturing Workforce Dev...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Nevada SBDC Annual Impact Report is out for 2024, and there are some changes to the plans for media studio production facilities, not to mention an expansion of education plans that are attached to the studio plans; all of which point toward what our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem looks like, and might look like in the near term. Links HOST Buy Dan A Co...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Perhaps City as a Startup from the Downtown Project days was in this general area of thinking, but it is time to ask whether the people who consider themselves to be a part of the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem, the Startup Scene if you like, are pointing any of their attention toward making a Better Greater Vegas, or at least pondering what that might mean...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We can talk about flowers, but really we are talking about groups of people within an ecosystem engaging with each other, learning from each other, and probably benefiting each other through these interactions. It is something that probably happens a lot, and could always happen more, and our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem should make this an actual objecti...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The so-called Startup Scene in the Greater Vegas Area is strange. A lot of the scene, a term I do not care for, is centered on gatherings of aspirational entrepreneurs and innovators, and while there is nothing wrong with that, we should be wondering when the aspiration turns to action. In the mean time, about those gatherings… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https:/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: At long last the trademark has been granted, the website updated, the Office of Economic Development at UNLV is all in on the Economy of Fun (this is not the actual trademarked name), we can mark the occasion and ponder what comes next for Greater Vegas and the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo H...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Being a Better Vegas is going to take a while, there are a lot of possibilities that will take time and some evolution, not to mention something of a culture shift. One thing the Greater Vegas region does have today is a lot of visitors and a lot of opportunity to connect them with innovation, why are we not doing that? Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buy...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Ready to kick off Season 2 of Caffe Genius Impressarios with some random thoughts and updates in no particular order, then back to work! Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Fermi Paradox suggests that while there would seem to be a high likelihood of extraterrestrial life existing somewhere else in the universe, there is remarkably little evidence of it. Suppose we apply this thinking to our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem, we experience a lot of hype around this being a great innovation hub and whatnot, but where is everyb...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We gave covered the Culture of Innovation that developed in the Real Silicon Valley over the course of decades, starting in the mid-to-late 1800s and continuing to today, and how that compares to the Greater Vegas area. Now we can touch on the Communication Culture, which need not look to other places for comparison, it is human nature, or should be. Links HOST B...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We haven´t talked a lot about Co-Creation, which is the inclusion of the users or customers of something in the design process, so that what we are designing actually works for the people who are going to make use of it. With 40 Million visitors to the Greater Vegas area each year, we have great potential to engage real people with real innovation to make our Sma...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In February 2023 I finished up a draft of a document I call Vegas Lacks, based on what I learned in my time in Silicon Valley from 1993 to 2001 and then 2005 to 2013, and my observations here in the Greater Vegas area over the decade that I have lived and worked here. Let´s see how that list looks today in the context of Initiative 2025. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coff...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Whether you are in the Greater Vegas area, specifically within the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem somewhere, or if you are somewhere else, there is usually a challenge to overcome early on, maybe again soon after, in a startup timeline, and that is putting a team together, whether a team of two or five or twenty-five, so how to? Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The new year is properly settled, the world is about to change, CES has come and gone once again, and now it is time to re-focus and proceed with Initiative 2025. Far less Dilly, essentially no Dally, we are getting serious and so should you. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A less-intricate episode today as CES 2025 comes to an end and the Greater Vegas area enjoys visits from innovators and instigators in the consumer electronics and, more perhaps, artificial intelligence spaces, among many, many others. It was difficult to find Vegas Innovation on the show floors, we should wonder why. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buyme...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary:A new year has arrived, with quite a wake-up call to go with it, with Vegas getting a small taste of the chaos. I will leave it to you to track that news, in the present or looking to the past some time later, in the mean time let us consolidate a few things we´ve brought up over the last year or so and spell out a plan for our ecosystem this year. Links HOST Buy...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Have you ever had an idea for a startup or new entrepreneurial endeavor of some kind, and somewhere along the way you or someone who has invested in you decides you need to change up your game? Have you ever had to pivot? Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Old Wharton Podcast on Pivots https...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Are you pursuing an Entrepreneurial Endeavor of some kind, a startup if you like, and you find yourself asking why you got yourself into this? Well today the answer can be found in this episode of this audio program, and if you would like a hint, there are two possibilities. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https:/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Suppose you´re an entrepreneur, maybe an innovator, possibly both, and you want to make some progress in the Greater Vegas ecosystem, or anywhere really. Can you do it all yourself, do you have co-founders and collaborators, do you have the resources to hire help in the early days? Or perhaps you are making use of the latest craze, Artificial Intelligence… Links...