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• Grant funding opportunities available for tech start-ups

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
          Several government programs are providing grant and funding opportunities for early-stage technology programs and businesses. According to GlobalCrossroadsCapital.com , some areas receiving consideration at this time include (1) Anti-Cancer Agents (2) Cancer Biomarkers (3) Nanotechnologies (4) ...
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• Nevada Small Farm Conference – March 12 – 13

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
        Save the dates – March 12-13, 2010   Nevada Small Farm Conference – Farming for the 21st Century Fallon Convention Center & Western Nevada College Fallon Campus This conference is a collaborative effort between WNC Specialty Crop Institute and several Nevada agricultural organizations ...
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• Web hits 40; future is ‘like air’

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  The Internet, the information system that has changed the way we learn, conduct research, do our jobs and connect socially, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. What is now a worldwide phenomenon sprang from a humble network of four university computers, which were part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s ...
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• AITP Presents TECHNOLOGY FOR TOTS HOLIDAY GALA – Dec 4

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
    TECHNOLOGY FOR TOTS HOLIDAY GALA December 4, 2009, 6-10 p.m. The M Resort, 2300 S. Las Vegas Blvd. TECHNOLOGY FOR TOTS HOLIDAY GALA Join the leading technology organizations in Las Vegas for an industry-wide semi-formal Holiday Gala to network, have fun, AND make the holidays a little brighter ...
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• New Reno Arch light bulbs just the start of energy saving plan

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  The Reno Arch became a symbol of the city’s $20 million commitment to energy conservation Tuesday night when the switch was flipped on 2,076 energy-efficient light bulbs. “This is super. This is super,” Mayor Bob Cashell, who changed the last bulb, told about 200 people at a ceremony to spark the new ...
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• Two more CityCenter structures earn high green ratings

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Two more facilities at CityCenter have achieved LEED Gold Certification , MGM Mirage announced today. Mandarin Oriental and Veer Towers have both reached the high environmental standard, bringing the total of LEED Gold certified facilities to six. Others include Crystals retail district, Vdara, ARIA’s hotel ...
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• Clean Energy Forum at UNR – Dec 6

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  University of Nevada Reno’s Sustainable Energy Forum is hosting an event Dec. 6 in collaboration with Focus the Nation , a Clean Energy Forum with a panel of nine experts including educators, business leaders and elected officials. The forum will cover renewable and sustainable energy options (biomass, wind, ...
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• Top 10 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Writing a Business Plan

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Writing a business plan is often a crucial first step to getting your start-up off the ground. A good plan can help you raise money, recruit members of your management team, set your marketing strategy and, perhaps best of all, refine your thinking. A plan riddled with errors? That can sink you. Here are 10 ...
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• NEVADAN AT WORK: Iron creations wrought with love keep entrepreneur afloat

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Walking the spacious showroom floor at Artistic Iron Works, founder and co-owner Tom Prato points out design intricacies in the railing for a spiral staircase and ornamentation on grand entry doors. He elaborates on the craftsmanship of wine cellar doors. Prato’s custom wrought-iron creations include fencing and ...
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• Ten steps to survival

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  By some economic experts’ opinions, today’s stock market momentum and consumer spending trends point to the beginning of an economic up-turn. It is anticipated that business will recover in the next two years which is welcome news, yet this recovery won’t create a significant number of new jobs or greater ...
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• NIREC Announces Request for Proposals

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  The Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization (NIREC) has opened a new call for proposals for clean energy innovations. The proposal offers per project funding of up to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 in value-added services from NIREC. The technology commercialization process requires ...
  6 days ago

• Black Chamber plans annual Expo – Dec 5

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  The second annual Nevada Black Chamber of Commerce Business and Networking Expo, the largest annual event for the Reno-based group, is scheduled Dec. 5. The event, which includes speakers and panels discussing issues ranging from access to capital to creation of successful strategic alliances, will be at the ...
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• Nevada emerges as heat waste player

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  To go big or to not go big. That, apparently, is the question when it comes to tapping waste heat energy, including here in the Silver State. Government incentives and the specter of cap-and-trade emission legislation have led to a spike in investments on green energy. But while solar and wind have the most ...
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• Carson City plan calls for downtown technology center

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Because of a hefty contribution from the trust of a late co-owner of the Carson Nugget, Carson City officials are embarking on a plan to turn eight acres of parking lots around the casino into a downtown technology plaza to attract entrepreneurial companies to Nevada’s capital city. The efforts to revitalize ...
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• Small Business Grant Programs Worth a Look

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Grant funding is not what most entrepreneurs consider when they think of raising capital, but government and private-funded grants can at times be a lifeline for small businesses or a way to finance your expansion into promising new markets. Despite the new money made available by the federal stimulus program, grant ...
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• Brewery Arts Center and Northern Nevada Development Authority Holiday Party – Dec 1

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Brewery Arts Center & Northern Nevada Development Authority will host an “Old Fashioned Christmas Party”  Tuesday, Dec. 1 in the Brewery Arts Center Ballroom.  Complimentary appetizers sponsored by the NEVADA APPEAL , with a no-host bar & Margarita Man service available. The event is presented In ...
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• Renewables will demand global links

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Mike Skaggs firmly believes Nevada’s renewable resources will prove to be one of the great historic drivers of the state’s economy, similar to the mines and legalized gambling that have powered the economy in the past. And Skaggs, executive director of the Nevada Commission on Economic Development , just as ...
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• NCED Seeks International Rep to SE Asia

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  The Nevada Commission on Economic Development is soliciting proposals for a qualified professional services contractor to work with the agency to promote the export of, and generate demand for, Nevada’s products and services; and, attract inbound direct investment in Nevada and Nevada businesses from Southeast ...
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• Too Small to Fail

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Over the past 18 months or so, the phrase "too big to fail" has become nearly as universal as "In God we trust." But what about the flip side–is there such a thing as "too small to fail"? Talk to independent business owners and civic leaders from one end of this country to the other in places like Thomasville, ...
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• NCET’s Tech Tuesday – SNCAT, reno – Dec 15

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Please plan to join NCET at SNCAT on December 15 for Tech Tuesday, Reno Tahoe’s premier technology and entrepreneurial networking event.  SNCAT will be hosting Tech Tuesday at their new location in the Meadowood Mall and showcasing the program for retraining dislocated workers, the set-up for Web-streaming OSHA ...
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