Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology

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• Cisco’s Collaboration Platform: Facebook for Business?

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Cisco has just unveiled a set of web-based communication products that could put the San Jose company into direct competition with both Google and Microsoft. Its entry into two new markets–hosted email and enterprise social software–is, says Cisco, part of a push to make business more people-centric than ...
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• The New Rules of Angel Investing

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Angels still have wings, but they aren’t flying quite so high. The rules of the game of angel investing have changed in the post-crisis world. The average deal size shrank by 31 percent in the first half of this year, according to a recent study by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New ...
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• Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  One of our best programmers just came into my office. He’s working on a new price list that we’re putting into place, and he’s on a tight deadline. I need to be able to announce the new rates in three weeks, at the first public demonstration of the application FogBugz 7 .0. Implementing the new prices on ...
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• 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  I’ve started three companies, and now I’m an angel investor. So I’ve been on both sides of the table. There are lots of good articles out there about pitching, and surely everyone who pitches me has read some of them. Still, a few problems appear over and over again. If you’ve ever had to sort through ...
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• NMI Conference offers advice on starting direct-sell business – Nov 12

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  A local small business organization will hold a one-day conference this week on self-employment opportunities in direct selling. The Nevada Microenterprise Initiative will give participants a chance to meet with representatives of 40 companies that rely on independent direct sales people. They include Avon, ...
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• The PC World 100: Best Products of 2009

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  A laptop that recharges wirelessly, a CPU that leaves the competition in the dust and a top pick that’s changing the face of computing — these are just three of the items in our PC World Top 100 list of the best products of the year. PC World looked at many outstanding hardware and software products, sites ...
  4 days ago

• Is it time to close your small business?

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  The great American dream is to build and operate one’s own business. Nobody likes to admit failure when things do not go as planned. However, some of the most important elements of assuming the entrepreneurial role are to know when to go full steam ahead, when to take calculated risks and knowing when to continue ...
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• ‘Green Machine’ wins energy awards

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  A small Carson City company and its “Green Machine” are getting some big-time attention in the world of innovation and energy conservation. ElectraTherm Inc ., founded 41/2 years ago by entrepreneur Richard Langson, began shipping its 5-foot-by-5-foot Green Machine last month after a successful field trial in ...
  5 days ago

• Online education makes house calls to Clark County students

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Eleven-year-old Alicia Ross practices gymnastics about 25 hours a week, but she doesn’t need to do back flips to get to school on time. For her, the classroom is as close as her home computer. Ross, a sixth-grader, is enrolled at Nevada Connections Academy, an online charter school.She and numerous other ...
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• TMA presents seminar on Chapter 11 – Nov 11

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Turnaround Management Association presents a program on navigating Chapter 11. Date: November 11 th , 2009 Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Location: Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse 3900 Paradise Road Las Vegas, NV 89101 Ample parking in the back Overview: What can be done with real property bankruptcies in ...
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• Northern Nevada gets $93 million for geothermal projects

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Nevada energy companies will receive nearly $93 million in federal grants to develop geothermal power, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Thursday. Reno Gazette-Journal, geothermal power, Steven Chu, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, Reno, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Ram Power, ORMAT Nevada, Nevada Geothermal ...
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• NEVBIO presents seminar on aging – Nov 6

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  “Cure Aging or Die Trying” Dr. Bill Andrews, CEO of Sierra Sciences Lunch and Lecture Friday, November 6th, 2009 (12 pm to 1 pm) at McCormick & Schmick’s   11:30 a.m. Check-in, 12 p.m., Lunch & Lecture ($35) 335 Hughes Center, Las Vegas, NV 89169 Can We Slow Down the Aging Process? Yes – By ...
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• Tech & Innovation Spending Show Corporations Are Recovering

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Despite cutting back on spending, big corporations actually expanded their R&D budgets by 5.7% in 2008, reports The New York Times . It’s only half as much as the increase in 2007, but it hints that research spending is one of the last things on the corporate chopping block and that the economic slowdown ...
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• Successful businesses start with careful research and planning

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
        Nationally, a majority of startup businesses fail within the first two years of launch and more fail in the following years. It’s true that poor economic conditions add more risk to small business operations, but most startups fail because owners are not adequately prepared. If you visit any secretary ...
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• Secretary of State Talks Business with Area Entrepreneurs

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Secretary of State Ross Miller met with 20 members of the Reno-Tahoe Entrepreneurs’ Organization recently to discuss how Nevada can attract more business, particularly entrepreneurs. Secretary Miller said the Nevada Business Portal will give businesses one more reason to incorporate in Nevada. When fully ...
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• BLUE GOES GREEN: Henderson police unit gets award

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Henderson’s boys in blue just won the gold for going green. The city’s new North Community Police Station has received gold certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design , or LEED, program. It is the first municipal building in Nevada to receive LEED’s second-highest rating for ...
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• Is Relief In Sight For Small Businesses

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  In mid-October, President Obama moved to raise the amount of credit extended to small businesses. If Congress approves his plan, the measures would enable community banks to borrow at low rates from the Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). It would also raise loan caps on some Small Business ...
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• Look Before You Leap at Change

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  Change is hard to deal with. Just thinking of the word can conjure visceral reactions and the expectation of difficulties, resistance, anger, betrayal, shock and misfortune. But hesitating before you implement a change isn’t necessarily bad. When problems occur in business, the most adaptable entrepreneurs jump ...
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• Should Your Company Go Online-Only?

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  It was graduation week, and like many matriculating seniors, Genevieve Thiers wondered what she would do with her life. She worried that her classical Opera training might not provide the immediate financial relief that she would need to pay the bills. That’s when she spotted inspiration: a pregnant woman. She ...
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• Lessons from Entrepreneurs Who Beat the Odds

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  The statistics surrounding the survival rate for small businesses have long been subject to fervid debate. Depending on who you’re talking to, the predicted life span for a startup can elicit grim to cautiously optimistic responses. One commonly cited figure is that half of all businesses go under in the first year ...
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