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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Water main repairs mean no water for the last 24 hours, for the second time in a week, so how about a few mini-updates packed in to one episode? 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: This is a topic we have covered before, we´ll cover it again, and we´re covering it now, the Greater Vegas area is good at promoting the Fun Economy, not good at promoting its own Innovation Achievements, nascent or aspirational though they may be. Here is an idea for someone to take and run with, as long as you are not one of The Usual Suspects. Links HOST Buy D...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Agile Method was conceived of in early 2001 by Professional Software Developers for Software Development. Since then, the Agile Industrial Complex has built business on these notions and left a sour taste in the mouths of software developers everywhere, arguably thanks to what is now Agile in Name Only. All that said, suppose Agile in its original form could...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A little update on some entrepreneurial effort, especially against a topical backdrop of super-big-tech letting everybody down en masse. Remember, small business makes up the bulk of business in the US and in Nevada (and where you are, most likely), novel ideas come from small, flexible cohorts doing cool things! Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoff...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There are now and then mentions of and references to THE Startup Scene in the Greater Vegas area. Let us hope there is not merely ONE such scene, because it is not good and certainly not enough. What if there could be many, and if we who want to be in, or elevate, a so-called Startup Scene could do so without the necessity of focusing on just one? Links HOST Buy...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Everyone is quite sure that big tech innovation is happening in Greater Vegas, with nowhere to go but up in the Startup Scene, and while The Next Silicon Valley is not something we hear so often (a good thing), there does seem to be a belief that simply repeating mantras is enough to make it happen. It isn´t. Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.c...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Growing slowing in popularity and effectiveness, the notion that a person or company can include users, customers, consumers in the design and iteration process, to make products and service that might actually work, might be something to ponder here in the oasis we call Greater Vegas… Links HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo HOST Dan´s Ko...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Innovation can occur at any place, at any time, by any one, of any age. Unfortunately, that is not always the message we send, but perhaps it should be. 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: 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...