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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...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The so-called Startup Scene of Greater Vegas is focused, overly-so according to some, on Technology and the notion that we will be The Next Silicon Valley. What if the Startup Scene includes those who want to open their own restaurant, coffee shop, bar, or something else that is not The Next FAANG company, but is instead something they have always wanted to do? L...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Some call it Black Friday, here in Nevada it´s Family Day, and there is no shortage of stuff going on that is worthy of comment, discussion, and consideration. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Family Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Day

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It has been nearly two years since the first cohort of Genius Roundtable convened to deep dive into the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Greater Vegas, and with previous ponderings postponed, the weather may have changed and a re-imagined sequel is a moral and economic imperative. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Keeping it simple this week ahead of GEW and F1 and who knows what else happening here in Vegas. If Southern Nevada is to contain The Next Silicon Valley, why is all of the hype around convincing big companies to move here and celebrating the big companies already here? Hint: Impatience for wins. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HO...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Interesting times ahead, no matter how you feel about our incoming administration and associated changes in the Congress, and changes you may experience closer to home at local levels. One of my favorite sayings may offer a starting point for some ideation and innovation, so let us get that conversation started with a monologue. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https:...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Thinking out loud about what a Smart City is or could be, and how the Greater Vegas area could perhaps set an example as a Smarter Smart City not only for our locals, but for our many, many visitors each year. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Smart City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Not specifically trash, but a few items that are in the bin, that I don´t really want to talk about so much for a while, because frankly they are getting old and tired, and our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem needs not only new energy, but new optimism, and these don´t come from meetups… they also don´t get much media coverage! Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee ht...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another Friday, rarely the end of the week for someone pursuing an entrepreneurial endeavor. Have you ever asked yourself if this is all worth it, if working for someone else might make more sense? If you haven´t, you´re doing it wrong. There must, though, be a reason you began this journey… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Da...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There is talk, on this very audio program in previous episodes of a Greater Vegas rise as The Next Silicon Valley, and at the same time, Hollywood 2.0, while maintaining its leadership as a Destination City with its trademark(-pending) Fun Economy, and there is almost certainly more. Will all of this work out, and if so how? If not, what might be, Plan B? Links H...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Smart Cities are supposed to be a thing in these modern times, though what makes a Smart City may be up for some debate. At the very least, people plus infrastructure is the makings of a Smart City, so what happens when the infrastructure, which people often grow to need and depend upon, goes away? Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another loop of racing fast approaches and Nevada, already not ranking high with regard to Education, is having some issues, and casino winnings took a dip. This is not what today´s episode is about, but these are things to consider when we ponder Opportunity in Greater Vegas. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: One of my favorite expressions, nearly universally true, and no less so here in the Greater Vegas Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem. I have used this term before in this audio program in previous episodes, but what is it, really, this assertion of similarity? Let us discuss… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi http...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Ideation is known by a few names, from Brainstorming to Daydreaming to Spitballing and more, and there is not enough of it in the Greater Vegas Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem. The question is, whether this is something to take note of, and even endeavor to change… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-f...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Fun Economy begins and ends lately with Formula One Racing! The most important thing in 2023, moreso that other small businesses near the race route and even not near, tourism, trees, visibility on pedestrian bridges, and the list goes on. As long as the money went to the right places, all was well… is this second round pointing to how much anything aside fro...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Technology is moving fast into the future while we humans continue at our normal human pace. Is Technology there to help us out later, or is it always about now? Something to think about, something to collaborate and co-create, perhaps… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Casa Jasmina https:/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: For a place such as the Greater Vegas area so believing it will be The Next Silicon Valley, there has been an interesting trend a few years in that needs some attention, and it is this: Why so few? Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Fermi Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem can be tricky, and driving our own startup and small business efforts can be exhausting. You hear it now and then, and I am saying it now, don´t forget to take an R now and then. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo