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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Chaos is a strong word, but many headlines, claims, and even strategic and impactful decisions are based on data, and we do not always know where it came from or when, and a Smart City should be Smarter about that. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts HOST KoFi Solo https...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: My Own take on how to proceed with startup ideas and more in the Greater Vegas Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem. 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: I have spoken about a rolling introspection effort, at the very beginning of this episode season in fact, but it is time to take a more detailed look at why this is important, in general and specifically 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...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Fourth of July is interesting this year, does it still apply? Well that is not a question we can tackle here, but given the day I wonder if the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem favors Independence over Collaboration and Elevation in early stages. In other words… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Buy Me an Update https:/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I am going to spoil this right up front, another ecosystem study that does nothing but feed some notion that everything is fine en route to The Next Silicon Valley located right here in the Global Innovation Hub that is the Greater Vegas area. Yipes. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.co...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A little mini-rant on the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem as it is today, and as it may be for a while, unfortunately. 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: The Fun Economy is important, trademark-worthy as well, but there is more than this going on here in the Greater Vegas area. The challenge is discovery, and it is not made easier when resources available to locals and visitors point overwhelmingly toward Fun and not toward the rest of the story… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOS...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Regular 2025 Nevada Legislative Session ended on Monday this week, without either of the proposed and so-called Film Tax Credit bills making it, which means Hollywood 2.0 might not happen just yet. In the mean time, though, we still have our Fun Economy, even in these challenging times… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Buy...

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...