Caffe Genius Impressarios

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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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April 19, 2024Episode 0060: Content Creation in Vegas
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 consultancies, and a special group, Content Creators like YouTubers and Podcasters!
Links
HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Pod Squad https://www.podsquad.io
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51min
April 12, 2024Episode 0059: Advocatus Diaboli
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 Losers https://lvsportsbiz.com/2024/03/19/clark-county-debriefing-report-on-controversial-formula-one-las-vegas-grand-prix-there-were-big-winner-and-big-losers/
Majority Not Fans of Public Money for As https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/poll-more-than-half-of-las-vegas-voters-oppose-public-funding-for-new-as-stadium/
Watch Out for Private Equity https://nevadacurrent.com/briefs/nevada-one-of-the-most-at-risk-states-for-legal-looting-by-private-equity-firms/
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57min
April 05, 2024Episode 0058: Resources for Startups in a Center Perhaps
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/danhugo
Trademark Application Status, Fun Economy (Search by Serial Number 97367459) https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-information
Detailed USPTO search on that case number, embedded in https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97367459&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch
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1h 3min
March 29, 2024Episode 0057: Strategizing For Our Future
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/2024/02/29/super-bowl-schmooze-2m-ceo-courting-experiment-a-success-lvgea-tells-lawmakers/
TQ Takes (Tina Quigley, LVGEA CEO) on Locate https://lvgea.org/tq-takes-locate-las-vegas-recap/
Business is Booming across the Country https://www.americanprogress.org/article/entrepreneurship-startups-and-business-formation-are-booming-across-the-u-s/
Mark W is on the team https://therealdeal.com/national/las-vegas/2024/03/21/mark-wahlberg-lands-role-in-las-vegas-studio-development/
Clark County approves Studio in Summerlin! https://www.fox10tv.com/video/2024/03/21/clark-county-approves-summerlin-movie-studio/
Summerlin not totally sold on the studio https://www.fox5vegas.com/2024/03/21/summerlin-residents-uneasy-about-traffic-movie-studio-gets-green-light/
Law Suit over Formula One, Maybe https://www.ktnv.com/news/business-owners-could-file-lawsuit-against-f1-las-vegas-grand-prix-next-week
Wahlberg Family Thriving in Vegas https://www.inforney.com/entertainment/mark-wahlberg-says-his-family-can-thrive-in-new-nevada-home/article_5988a1a9-ab7c-57ce-a273-0f1488c87fb4.html
Is everything still rosy? https://screenrant.com/mark-wahlberg-arthur-the-king-box-office-flop-reasons/
Innovate Syracuse https://www.syracuse.com/news/2024/03/5-key-takeaways-from-our-look-at-syracuses-innovation-ecosystem.html
Innovation Hot Spots Nationally https://www.axios.com/2024/03/28/america-innovation-hotspots-patent-boom
Las Vegas not so affordable https://www.planetizen.com/news/2024/03/127977-report-las-vegas-houston-top-list-least-affordable-cities
Reminder from October 2023, 31 Designated Tech Hubs https://www.eda.gov/news/press-release/2023/10/23/biden-harris-administration-designates-31-tech-hubs-across-america
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1h 18min
March 22, 2024Episode 0056: Action on the Ground
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 2.0 https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/1-8b-sony-movie-studio-backed-by-mark-wahlberg-approved-for-summerlin-3020516/
CLV Economic Development Head Ryan Smith passes https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/las-vegas/las-vegas-economic-development-official-ryan-smith-dead-at-36-3020530/
Impact of Formula One on Local Business https://news3lv.com/news/local/las-vegas-outrage-over-formula-1-unseen-losses-and-disrupted-lives-demand-accountability
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47min
March 15, 2024Episode 0055: Continuous Introspection
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/danhugo
HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Nevada 5.4% Unemployment Means Strong Economy? https://news3lv.com/amp/news/local/nevada-unemployment-rate-above-national-average-could-be-a-good-thing
44,000 await affordable housing in S.NV https://www.fox5vegas.com/2024/03/14/44000-people-waitlist-affordable-housing-clark-county/
30,000 evictions for 2023, more coming https://www.fox5vegas.com/2024/03/15/more-than-30000-households-evicted-las-vegas-valley-2023-thousands-evictions-continue/
Top 10 Cocktail Cities rated by Bartenders https://www.travelandleisure.com/best-cocktail-cities-in-america-8604950
5 Reasons Not to Retire in Nevada https://www.gobankingrates.com/retirement/planning/reasons-you-dont-want-to-retire-in-nevada/
Clark County hearings on Formula 1 https://news3lv.com/amp/news/local/clark-county-commissioner-to-get-presentation-on-las-vegas-grand-prix
Boring not Boring, but keep Boring https://news3lv.com/news/local/lvcva-votes-extend-vegas-loop-amid-workplace-concerns
Economic Diversification a Work in Progress https://lasvegasweekly.com/news/2023/feb/02/southern-nevada-continues-push-diversify-economy/
Hachman Index https://southwestpolicy.com/diversity-economics-and-income/
Las Vegas needs to Be. Aggressive. Be Be Aggressive, getting business relocate here https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/behind-las-vegas-2m-spearfishing-effort-to-lure-ceos-3013044/
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1h 5min
March 08, 2024Episode 0054: A Pain in the Asset Map
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/danhugo
What are community assets? https://www.codesignframework.com/blog/what-are-community-assets-heres-how-to-map-them
Community Asset Mapping https://www.edrawsoft.com/asset-mapping.html
Asset-based Community Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset-based_community_development
Example Education Asset Map Southern Nevada (PDF) https://new.ccea-nv.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/UNR_Southern-Nevada-Complex-Asset-Map_CCEA_9_2022.pdf
Example Clark County Community and Economy Asset Map (PDF) https://businessinclarkcounty.com/wp-content/uploads/Mapping-Clark-Countys-Future-An-Analysis-of-Clark-Countys-Communities-and-Economy.pdf
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1h 6min
March 01, 2024Episode 0053: Interesting Times pt 1
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 Sues State over As https://apnews.com/article/mlb-athletics-vegas-stadium-teachers-lawsuit-dfae2cc5f421a146b2a7de89262db639
Mayor Has Advice for As https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39472102/las-vegas-mayor-says-athletics-pitch-new-plan-bay-area
As in Talks with Oakland About A Lot https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/athletics/as-working-to-unload-ownership-in-oakland-coliseum-3007686/
As Remain Optimistic https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/athletics/las-vegas-is-solid-mlb-landowner-optimistic-on-as-ballpark-plan-3008442/
Boring Company Actually Exciting https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/flirted-death-elon-musk-boring-company-employees-injuries-osha-citations/
Mayor voted against Boring Tunnels https://news3lv.com/news/local/boring-company-faces-challenges-with-vegas-tunnel-project-mayor-goodman-concerned
Small Business Suing Everybody Over Formula One Losses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7ZL7dV3d0
Strat Takes One For The Team re F1 https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/taking-one-for-the-team-strat-lost-big-execs-want-more-from-f1-race-this-year/
Why Interesting
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50min
February 23, 2024Episode 0052: The Fallacy of Community
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 Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
AFSP https://afsp.org/suicide-prevention-resources/
CDC https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/resources/index.html
CSSNV https://cssnv.org/
988 https://988lifeline.org/
Bandwagon Fallacy https://www.fallacyfiles.org/bandwagn.html
There is no such thing as a free lunch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_free_lunch
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33min
February 17, 2024Episode 0051: Enabling and Encouraging
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: It is one thing to say we want innovation and entrepreneurship to thrive in the Greater Vegas area, it is another completely to make it happen. But can we actually make it happen, or does it happen when it can?
Links
HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
HOST Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Clark County Innovation District https://businessinclarkcounty.com/clark-county-advantage/innovation-district/
Berkeley Innovation Zone https://sfyimby.com/2024/02/uc-berkeley-innovation-zone-could-become-tallest-building-in-city.html
Innovating: A Doer´s Manifesto… https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262536127/innovating/
Innovating: book review https://medium.com/@AJOhrn/what-to-learn-from-a-doers-manifesto-on-innovating-6195e9e9fc6
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45min

FAQs about Caffe Genius Impressarios:

How many episodes does Caffe Genius Impressarios have?

The podcast currently has 131 episodes available.