Episodes

  • Episode 0148: Retrospective 2025

    Episode 0148: Retrospective 2025
    Dec 27 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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    43 mins
  • Episode 0147: Stall Recovery

    Episode 0147: Stall Recovery
    Dec 19 2025
    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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    1 hr
  • Episode 0146: What Are Vegas KPIs and OKRs ?

    Episode 0146: What Are Vegas KPIs and OKRs ?
    Dec 13 2025
    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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    50 mins
  • Episode 0145: Initiative 2026

    Episode 0145: Initiative 2026
    Dec 5 2025
    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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    40 mins
  • Episode 0144: Family Day in The Ecosystem

    Episode 0144: Family Day in The Ecosystem
    Nov 28 2025
    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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    24 mins
  • Episode 0143: It Does Take a Village

    Episode 0143: It Does Take a Village
    Nov 21 2025
    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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    40 mins
  • Episode 0142: The Velvet Rope

    Episode 0142: The Velvet Rope
    Nov 14 2025
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The Halo Effect, Warm Introductions, Low Attention, Lack of Recognition and Celebration, is the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem benefiting from The Velvet Rope?
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • LVGEA EDAWN Joint Effort Announcement https://lvgea.org/lvgea-news/edawn-and-lvgea-launch-nevada-economic-developers-association/
    • LVGEA Startup Ecosystem https://lvgea.org/startups/
    • LVGEA Key Industries https://lvgea.org/key-industries/
    • Nevada’s Global Entrepreneur Week 2025 https://gewnevada.com/
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    57 mins
  • Episode 0141: Making a Scene

    Episode 0141: Making a Scene
    Nov 7 2025
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: If you have heard a few episodes of this program, you know I tend not to appreciate labels like “Tech Scene” and “Startup Scene,” they are so over-used but they do have a time and a place in some contexts. Okay then, let’s make an entrepreneurial innovation scene.
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Scene (as in Subculture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene_(subculture)
    • Vegas inc and Cox Top Tech Awards 2025 https://vegasinc.lasvegassun.com/news/2025/oct/23/vegas-inc-and-cox-business-present-the-2025-top-te/
    • WaterStart https://vegasinc.lasvegassun.com/news/2025/nov/03/nevada-turning-water-tech-startups-ideas-into-real/
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    1 hr and 8 mins