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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 ...
  4 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 ...
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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, ...
  1 week ago

• 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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• Renewable Energy is a Hot Commodity

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  A wise (albeit fictional and homicidal) man once said, “First you get the money, then you get the power.” But these days in Washington, if you’ve already got the power, they’ve got some money for you. For years, the U.S. Treasury Department has offered tax credits to companies at the forefront of creating ...
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• Noble Laureate Eric Cornell to speak at University of Nevada, Reno – Nov 19

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  In 1924, Albert Einstein had a theory on a chalkboard. In 1995, Eric Cornell made it come to life. Cornell and his research partners, by lowering the temperature of atoms to nearly absolute zero, demonstrated a state of matter never before seen. This state of matter was first predicted by Satyendra Nath Bose and ...
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• Medical breakthrough puts Reno in spotlight

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
  Judy Mikovits remembers that “eureka” moment when she realized that she and her team of researchers at the Whittemore-Peterson Institute in Reno had discovered a new retrovirus that could lead to a possible treatment, even a vaccine, to combat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. “It was January 22, and we were in a ...
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• Davidson Academy Test Track Dummies to present demo – Dec 5

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 138
                  The Test Track Dummies, a robotics team comprised of 11 to 14 year olds from The Davidson Academy of Nevada , will present their research project and a working robot. In preparation for the FIRST Lego League (FLL) robotics competition in Las Vegas on Dec. 5, the Test Track Dummies ...
  1 week ago

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