• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: A few bits and pieces to update and refresh as this hot summer continues and the number coolness does not.

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: The title is obvious, perhaps. Do It Yourself, For Flick Sake. Make a minor edit in there, the point though is this, do not as an entrepreneur or innovator wait for others on high to give you permission or tell you what to do or how to do it. Take a chance, follow your nose, and learn along the way. Then and only then should you be asking for assistance, and even then only if you must.

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• Barry’s Economics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbDQs_TcyN4

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: No announcements today, but we are going to talk about some ideas to consider when there are announcements to be made to some or all of Greater Vegas and perhaps beyond. We are, though, always reaching out…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: If you are at all familiar with the Downtown Project days in lovely Downtown Las Vegas, you probably heard the term Serendipitous Collisions with regard to the people pursuing their startup ideas and others visiting to witness this undertaking, sometimes called City as a Startup. We should revisit that, starting but not ending in this episode.

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• DTP Collisions https://www.forbes.com/sites/techonomy/2013/11/15/why-zappos-ceo-hsieh-wants-to-enable-more-collisions-in-vegas/
• Beyond Collisions…. by Dr. John H Howard https://www.actoninstitute.au/post/beyond-collisions-towards-a-theory-of-serendipitous-interaction-in-innovation-districts-precincts

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: This has been on the wish list for too long, the time has come to cast aside the pile that is LinkedIn and commence the journey out into the world wide internets, where the algorithms are different, the velvet rope not present.

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• Deprecation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Somewhere between what is objectively true and what we seem to want to believe is subjectively true is sometimes called hype. This by way of a first pass at Transforming Las Vegas Into A Financial Center by Dr Daniel Chi and Amin Asadi of UNLV…

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• Transforming Las Vegas Into A Financial Center https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6533259
• SWOT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis
• Article about Lost in Austin book https://thehill.com/homenews/4907909-lost-in-austin-book-development-affordability-traffic-water/

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: If we were to name three most-definitely-not-blind mice, these in the title could work. Or we could simply examine these three ways of looking at, well, anything, but especially our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem and its surroundings…

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• Visibility (sort of) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_perception
• Transparency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(behavior)
• Observability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability

Show Notes

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: A somewhat sensational title, this is not really proof so much as a few examples, but of what Motivated Reasoning is and how it can be used effectively… in Greater Vegas. (Correction: Las Vegas population is closer to 680K not 580K -dh)

Links

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• Las Vegas ranks Number 2 WorldWide in Startup Activity https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/entrepreneurs/las-vegas-ranks-no-2-in-world-in-startup-community-activity-3837252/
• Las Vegas leads the US in Tech Employment Growth for 2026 https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/las-vegas-to-lead-nation-in-tech-employment-growth-in-2026-per-report-3823979/
• Population and Migration PER CAPITA https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/housing/nevada-is-the-standout-californias-affordability-crisis-continues-to-drive-relocation-3791527/
• Telephone Game End https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/state-of-nevada-leads-us-in-population-growth-for-decades/
• Telephone Game Mid https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/housing/nevada-is-americas-fastest-growing-state-report-says-3839095/
• Telephone Game Start https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-u-s-population-growth-by-state-1970-2025/
• Broken Link https://crowdfundcapitaladvisors.com/downloads/2023-best-cities-and-states-for-startups/
• TED Julia Galef https://www.ted.com/talks/julia_galef_why_you_think_you_re_right_even_if_you_re_wrong
• The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Mindset
• Motivated Reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
• Bad News https://www.8newsnow.com/news/nevada-ranks-last-in-nation-for-mental-health-care-access-umc-doctors-warn-crisis-growing/

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Difficult to locate just yet, but the LVGEA has published some plans that seem to match the Key Industries we have mentioned previously (the associated web page on the LVGEA website no longer there), as a way forward for continuing Economic Diversity efforts. But where will the water come from?

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• Post-2026 Water https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/post2026/index.html
• Report on LVGEA Strategic Plan https://www.ktnv.com/news/new-strategic-plan-a-roadmap-to-the-future
• Lost in Austin (report on book) https://thehill.com/homenews/4907909-lost-in-austin-book-development-affordability-traffic-water/

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Technically this is a plural wrong numbers scenario, but that doesn’t sound as good for a title. If you have not consumed Episode 0166 of this program, “Show Me Data,” the links from that episode might come in handy, though today is not so much about the published numbers, only that they are the wrong numbers to wait on. Got it?

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• LVCVA Tourism Tracker (Research) https://www.lvcva.com/research/
• UNLV CBER Economic Dashboard https://cber.unlv.edu/economic-dashboard/