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Episode 0018: Hacking the Ecosystem

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Show Notes

  • - Host: Dan Hugo
  • - Summary: It takes more than headlines and likes to change an ecosystem


    • What is Hacking?

    • - Collaborative ideation, usually with a time limit
    • - Open-ended or Blue Sky thinking drives creative outcomes
    • - Sometimes called a Sprint, they are more and more common


      • What is the Ecosystem?

      • - An economic ecosystem is similar in many ways to a biological ecosystem
      • - Four pillars (this is one opinion, not uncommon but not authoritative)
      • - Education/Talent Pool
      • - Government Participation
      • - Existing and Emerging Communities (Entrepreneurs, Knowledge Workers, Creators, etc)
      • - Access to Capital
      • - It is difficult and expensive to change either kind of ecosystem


        • Greater Vegas Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

        • - Climax Community: Tourism + Hospitality + Gaming + Entertainment + Sports
        • - Minor Flora and Fauna: Biotech, Software Unicorns, Manufacturing, Environmental…
        • - Carrying Capacity: Limited by natural resources in both types of ecosystem, but costs to change are high!


          • Let the Hacking Begin

          • - Can we encourage symbiosis? Do we risk pricing out those enabling the Climax Community with smaller gentrifying factors?
          • - Is the Greater Vegas culture capable of supporting an Innovation Economy at Scale?
          • - Is there infrastructure to enable research and initial-scale production of outcomes of innovation?
          • - Are we encouraging aspirational innovators to pursue their ideas regardless of identity, age, status…
          • - Does Greater Vegas lean toward Elitism, or Egalitarianism? Solipsism, or Altruism? We should know that going in.
          • - Luckily we need not tackle all of this in an all-nighter weekend hackathon, but we probably don´t have ten years, either…
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