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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you already live in the Greater Vegas area, or if you visit frequently, you may find starting a business of some sort here makes sense. Moving to the Greater Vegas area specifically to start a business of some kind, though, may not. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo US Chamber of Commerc...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The joys of solopreneurship include substantial cognitive load as we tackle all sorts of challenges across a variety of skill sets and priorities, often all the highest of course. Task switching only amplifies the effects of cognitive load… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Cognitive Worklo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: News is a business, attention and clicks matter, and competition is fierce. As a normal person, how do we keep track of the important things going on close to home, or that matter, or both, when the tools at our disposal have an agenda driven by revenue? Everything starts with local. Well, everything should, which is where we are beginning with our Information Sh...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Some practical examples that might make a city-scale information sharing platform useful and interesting, and maybe even successful! Too many possibilities in the blue sky, these given are a taste. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Mapping the Future (2020) https://businessinclarkcounty.com...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another episode along the path of forming a Startup in Vegas! Business and development plans around a novel product or service concept are the things that fill the hours each day, but it is important to be able to describe all of this to audiences of different kinds, ideally reaching a Lean-in or Ah Ha moment with each. Not always easy. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffe...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Rounding out the notion of requirements specification, this week we move from the MRD/PRD approach to SWOT and a Business Canvas, let us see how it turns out! Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Canvas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Model_Canvas Ash Maurya´s Lean Canvas https://www.le...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Following up on Episode 0061, we get started on a Marketing Requirements Document, so we know the What and Why, and figure out how to get an Engineering Requirements Specification for an Open Source project developed by Civic Volunteers… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Market Requirements...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Caffe Genius Project is aimed at our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem of the Greater Vegas area, to analyze it, measure what is working and what is not, and plot a path toward elevation to enable and encourage success, however we all define it. So let us talk about launching a startup into this ecosystem to pursue exactly that… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you thought there was some sort of a Startup Scene in the Greater Vegas Area, you are correct! It isn´t the group of people who show up for free food each month and pat themselves on the back pretending to be accomplishing something, no. It is people opening small businesses like restaurants and bars and retail establishments, professional services and consult...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: What if everything is not great when it comes to entrepreneurialism in the Greater Vegas area? What if the ecosystem is not strong, the innovation culture is not healthy, what if the optimism is misplaced? We should talk about it… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo F1 Big Winners and Big Los...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Become a Local! Move your business and your employees, or start your startup here in the Greater Vegas Area, rivaling the San Francisco Bay Area as an Innovation Hub, the home of Hollywood 2.0, and the very heart of the globe´s best and most favored Fun Economy. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/da...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Ubiquitous silos are one thing, but disconnection seems to be the new status quo in the Greater Vegas area. Enough so that real analysis are going to be needed to figure this out. Let us make a plan. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Locate Southern Nevada! https://nevadacurrent.com/2024/02...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have gone here before, an Entrepreneurial Innovate Ecosystem populated by those who would wait for someone else to take action, will find it slow-going. The people steering the ship that is the Greater Vegas EIE, do they have this? Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Progress on Hollywood...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Are you an entrepreneur, an innovator, or both? Are you keen on starting a business in, or relocating a business or idea to, the Greater Vegas Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem? Are you doing it, or are you thinking about it, and if the latter, are you seeing some red flags? We should talk about it. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danh...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A community asset map is an introspective accounting of personalities, skills, capabilities, physical resources, and so on, sometimes depicted on a literal map, often showing what a community has and perhaps what a community lacks on its path into the future… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhu...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is a faux saying or curse, “May you live in interesting times,” which always seems apropos here in the Greater Vegas area, especially when it comes to any sort of entrepreneurial or innovative endeavors, but also all the time otherwise. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Teachers Union...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: While there has been plenty of attention paid to the Greater Vegas area for a variety of reasons, the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem as it was during the days of the Downtown Project, and as well today, lacks sufficient attention paid to the health and well-being of its inhabitants. A community is a community because everybody says it is, right? Links HOST Buy Dan A C...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It is one thing to say we want innovation and entrepreneurship to thrive in the Greater Vegas area, it is another completely to make it happen. But can we actually make it happen, or does it happen when it can? Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Clark County Innovation District https://busin...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Can an Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem be embedded in, or be elevated and cultivated by, a City-scale Entrepreneurial Innovation Platform? As with most things, it depends, and in this case, it depends on the people… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo City as a Startup https://www.cityas...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Greater Vegas area is one known for a somewhat-transient population and certainly anyone you might meet here is from someplace else. This makes for an always-blending mix of personalities and expectations when it comes to our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.c...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The post-game show where we run down some of the aftermath of the Formula One race from November 2023 and where things might go next. An onion with many layers. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Las Vegas Grand Prix named most successful 2023 F1 race https://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-gran...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is co-working in the Greater Vegas area. There is co-working space. There are coffee shops and other casual venues, and plenty of free wifi. Yet we need more co-working in Greater Vegas if we are going to enable our Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo “Co-work...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A system of any kind can operate in several modes, at least one of these may include use of Feedback to moderate and control the system, to guide it in the specified or desired direction. Sometimes a system is said to be Open Loop if there is no use of this feedback, if there is feedback at all… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOS...

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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A few projects have been in flight for 2023, at long last we can get down to work for 2024, as we shall describe herein… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo George Santayana well-known quote about The Past https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana Introduction to Community of Practice fr...