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• Fourth shake table debuts at University of Nevada, Reno earthquake lab

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  The office swayed and jolted from side-to-side, the floor heaved upwards as the “earthquake” shook from below sending books off shelves, and pictures off the walls in the inaugural run of the new shake table this week at the University of Nevada, Reno’s earthquake simulation engineering lab. It was part of ...
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• Strategies: Get started on these end-of-year business tasks

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  If you’ve got a retail business, you’re almost certainly (hopefully) incredibly busy this time of year. In fact, perhaps more than 50% of your sales may come between Halloween and New Year’s. That means customers to serve, shelves to restock, vendors to contact, employees to manage. Many service businesses are ...
  21 hours ago

• Study projects green building will triple by 2013

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Even as a deepening recession and credit freeze have curtailed real estate development, green building construction starts increased fivefold between 2005 and 2008, McGraw-Hill Construction reports. McGraw-Hill expects the domestic green building market to triple by 2013, reaching up to $140 billion in ...
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• Why a Friend Shouldn’t Run Your Business

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  The Perpetual Change Recycling Plant in Tennessee holds contracts with several municipalities in the area, but it’s losing money every month despite more than $20 million a year in revenue. The problem started when the owner, Ray, began delegating more control to the general manager, a trusted friend who in the ...
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• Kauffman’s Hottest Research Topics in 2009: Entrepreneurship, Jobs and Recovery

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  The most popular studies emanating from the nation’s largest funder of entrepreneurial research are largely related to the top story of the year: the economy. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has compiled its most in-demand research for 2009—research that was mentioned in news stories generating more ...
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• 2010 Nevada Medal Recipient – Dr. Robert D. Ballard

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Best known for his 1985 discovery of the TITANIC, Dr. Robert Ballard has succeeded in tracking down numerous other significant shipwrecks, including the German battleship BISMARCK, the lost fleet of Guadalcanal, the U.S. aircraft carrier YORKTOWN (sunk in the World War II Battle of Midway), and John F. Kennedy’s ...
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• Professor says Las Vegas economy ‘at a crossroad’

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  UNLV economics professor Mary Riddel remembers growing up in Detroit in the 1960s when it was a bustling and booming city, king of the automobile manufacturing industry. She went shopping with her family at upscale department stores and everyone seemed to have plenty of money. Household income in Motown easily ...
  3 days ago

• Why Entrepreneurs Benefit from the Weak Dollar

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  I just read that more than 5 million people watch iCarly every week. And that more than 22 million Kid Rock albums have been sold in this country alone. But I’m not going to take that as evidence that we’re a country on the way down. I understand that Allen Iverson made $29 million last year, which is ...
  3 days ago

• Start-up Monies and Services Up for Grabs in Southern Nevada Business Competition

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Aspiring entrepreneurs who have innovative business ideas that would help spur economic growth in the region are encouraged to enter the Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition. Sponsored by the UNLV Center For Entrepreneurship and the Las Vegas Business Press , the competition begins this week and is open to ...
  4 days ago

• CFA SOCIETY OF NEVADA 2010 Economic and Investment Forecast Dinner – Jan 21

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  CFA SOCIETY OF NEVADA 2010 Economic and Investment Forecast Dinner Thursday January 21, 2010  6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Cocktails/Registration 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Dinner/Presentations 7:00 p.m. Panevino Ristorante 246 Via Antonio Las Vegas, NV 89119   $60 members, $75 Non-members Table Sponsorships ...
  4 days ago

• Private equity, debt financing fill financing void for entrepreneurs

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  With financing from banks frozen, northern Nevada companies are raising capital in private deals with groups of investors. At least 15 companies in the region have filed notic es this year with the Securities and Exchange Commission that they are raising money through sale of equity or debt offerings to private ...
  5 days ago

• 1Velocity Named Top Internet Provider in Nevada

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Las Vegas-based 1Velocity was recently recognized by SpeedTest.net as the number one  Internet Service Provider in Nevada. According to SpeedTest.net, 1Velocity has average download and upload speeds twice as fast as any other carrier in the state. "In large part, our average speeds are the highest of any ...
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• Small Business Survival Index 2009 Ranks Nevada 2nd Most Entrepreneur-Friendly State in the Nation

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) recently announced what the Nevada Development Authority and local entrepreneurs have known for years  –  Las Vegas is open for business with one of the best business climates in the U.S.!  The SBE Council released its 14th annual rankings of the ...
  6 days ago

• New chamber chairwoman emphasizes Las Vegas resiliency

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce doesn’t expect any philosophical changes in its government advocacy role under its new leadership and will await word on whether Gov. Jim Gibbons will call a special session of the Legislature before working on any policy position. The chamber inducted new leadership Dec. 3 at a ...
  6 days ago

• Telecommuter? You Barely Know Her!

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  An estimated 40% of the working population in the U.S. spends at least some of their time telecommuting. (A nonsense word that, for some strange reason, makes me think of James T. Kirk but in reality is a complete non-phrase. The daily commute is what happens between kissing your other half goodbye at the front ...
  1 week ago

• ‘THIRD STRAW’: Water authority digs deep for third intake pipe at Lake Mead

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Down at the bottom, the rain never stops. It seeps from the rock walls and pours from the 600-foot shaft that frames a clear blue sky. ? Pumps help to stem the tide, but still the water collects, turning this work zone 60 stories underground into a humid, muddy mess. ? When it’s finished in early 2013, the ...
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• Raising Capital: Equity vs. Debt

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  In November 2008, Donn Flipse was forced to close one of his three flower superstores in Florida’s Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Nine months later, Flipse expanded by acquiring the business of a retiring florist in a wealthy section of South Miami. Those two events normally would have led Flipse to lean on his ...
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• Nevada Institutions Awarded $5.7 Million for Renewable Energy Research

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  The Nevada System of Higher Education has received $5.7 million-over the past two fiscal years-from the U.S. Department of Energy for renewable energy, including the latest installment, $3.2 million to be used for a renewable energy consortium – an association between the three NSHE research institutions and ...
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• SocialCycling Turns Unrecyclable Products Into Usable Items

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  We write a lot about upcycling, or the practice of reusing products for new purposes to prevent waste. Now DMD Green , an environmental management consulting company, wants to make the process even easier with its new SocialCycling program, which takes items that are nearly impossible (or impossible) to recycle and ...
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• Ormat Technologies, Inc. Signs a New 20-Year PPA with NV Energy

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Ormat Technologies, Inc . announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with NV Energy to purchase 30 megawatts from the McGinness Hills Geothermal  project, which is currently under construction. The PPA is subject to various approvals including the approval of the Public ...
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