Caffe Genius Impressarios

By Caffe Genius

Caffe Genius is all about thinking outside the box, from Experimental Meetup Colaboratories to Pitch Workout Rooms to the Genius Roundtable and more; the idea is to consider seriously the Entrepreneur... more

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The podcast currently has 173 episodes available.

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January 23, 2026Episode 0152: Goodhart in Vegas
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Goodhart’s Law states that “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” So about those tourism stats…
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Goodhart’s Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
LVCVA Research https://www.lvcva.com/research/
LVCVA Fabulous Five-Day Sale https://press.lvcva.com/all/las-vegas-kicks-off-the-fabulous-5-day-sale-today/s/65399c90-ab5e-4207-a0c8-cc70b9a17da5
Sarah Paine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_C._M._Paine
Sarah Paine on current Strategy and Potential Outcomes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUE1n8yWng
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1h 5min
January 17, 2026Episode 0151: Bootstrap Vegas
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Everybody is waiting for the final report for 2025 regarding the Vegas Slump that everyone is already reporting on, and if you are waiting for some central planning, advice from above, and a supply side economy to enable your entrepreneurial innovation journey, we need to talk.
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
LVCVA Research https://www.lvcva.com/research/
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57min
January 09, 2026Episode 0150: Retro Go
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Vegas, we have a problem. It probably started 100 years ago, and it most definitely got worse in 2025. We are not talking about quite what you might be thinking, but close.
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Apollo 13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13
Feynman Challenger Article https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3570/1/Feynman.pdf
Feynman Appendix https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v2appf.htm
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42min
January 02, 2026Episode 0149: Vegas Colaboratory
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: I have spoken of the Colaboratory notion in a previous episode, now that our new year has commenced, the time has come to deploy this scenario and see what happens.
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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32min
December 27, 2025Episode 0148: Retrospective 2025
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: The final full week of 2025, seems like a fine time to publish an episode looking back not at the episodes of the year, but how we have seen the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem evolve, for better or worse.
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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44min
December 19, 2025Episode 0147: Stall Recovery
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: The calendar year is nearly ended and a new one soon to begin, the world is in its current state, as is your neighborhood, if you are working on something novel on a small team of co-founders or maybe on your own, it is entirely possible that you find yourself stalled. Let’s talk about it.
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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1h
December 13, 2025Episode 0146: What Are Vegas KPIs and OKRs ?
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: There has been a lot made of the Soft Summer and the general slowing of tourism and all that entails for Vegas, to the point where people are a little bit worried about the economy in general. What about we entrepreneurial innovators, how are we doing and how are we coming along?
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
F1 Year 3 News https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/dec/10/f1s-las-vegas-grand-prix-success-exposes-need-for/
OKRs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectives_and_key_results
KPIs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_indicator
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51min
December 05, 2025Episode 0145: Initiative 2026
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: This plan was originally Initiative 2025 from back in Episode 0097, we can review that Initiative and tune it up in this original episode for the next attempt at getting this going for 2026…
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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41min
November 28, 2025Episode 0144: Family Day in The Ecosystem
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Sure, it is Black Friday, but here in Nevada, our state holiday is Family Day, a day for the whole family to go out shopping and get those discounts, or something like that. Keeping it brief on this holiday so I can do something similar, let’s catch up on a couple of Ecosystem things.
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Family Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Day
Nevada Revised Statues for Holidays https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-236.html
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24min
November 21, 2025Episode 0143: It Does Take a Village
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: We talk a lot about the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem, the so-called Startup Scene, and sometimes Hollywood 2.0 and Global Innovation Hub and a few other things, but it occurs to me after mentioning how little coverage any of this gets in our local press, that those who are not checking the box for Entrepreneur may have no idea what goes off the strip.
Links
Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Slate on our Most Flailing Destination City https://slate.com/comments/business/2025/11/las-vegas-travel-sphere-hotel-donald-trump.html
NV Legislature Special Session 2025 https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/36th2025Special
Film Incentives Bill Fails https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/nevada-senate-rejects-film-tax-credit-expansion-killing-bill
LVGEA Key Industries https://lvgea.org/key-industries/
ESOs https://www.sec.gov/resources-small-businesses/capital-raising-building-blocks/entrepreneurial-support-organizations
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41min

FAQs about Caffe Genius Impressarios:

How many episodes does Caffe Genius Impressarios have?

The podcast currently has 173 episodes available.