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• 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…

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• 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.

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• The Lincy Report https://www.unlv.edu/announcement/lincy-institute/startup-ecosystem-southern-nevada-growth-energy-and-emerging
• Direct PDF Link https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=lincy_policybriefs_reports
• The EDAWN Study (PDF Link) https://www.edawn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/EMPOWERING-ENTREPRENEURSHIP-Nevada-Ecosystem-Assessment-and-Strategy-April-2023.pdf

• 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.

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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…

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• The New LVCVA effort https://www.visitlasvegas.com/locals/
• Looks Similar to DTLV https://downtoplay.vegas
• Fun https://lasvegasweekly.com/
• More Fun https://www.vegas.com/
• CLV Effort https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/
• Henderson https://www.cityofhenderson.com/

• 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…

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• 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?

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• Studio Bills Sustainability Report Article https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/state-commissioned-analyses-nevada-film-tax-credit-expansion-likely-not-sustainable
• Gigafactory Incentives 2023 Article https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/tesla-gets-330-million-in-tax-breaks-pledges-to-address-infrastructure-strain
• McDermitt Caldera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDermitt_Caldera

• 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…

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• Super Connectors https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesfinancecouncil/2018/11/16/how-to-become-a-super-connector/

• 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?

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• Example Colab https://colab.google/
• Another spelling, possibly confusing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboratory

• 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…

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• Some Gubernatorial Inputs https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/lombardo-economic-development-bill-targets-child-care-high-tech-business-rural-housing

• 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, which is something to think about.

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• Nevada Test Site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site
• Now the Nevada National Security Site https://nnss.gov/
• Critical Mass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass