Show Notes
- - Host: Dan Hugo
- - Summary: A rundown of the first 3 meetups of the first cohort of the Genius Roundtable and the almost-ready Downtown Project Retrospective.
What is the Genius Roundtable?
- - Why genius? Why roundtable?
- - Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial People in and around the Greater Las Vegas area
- - Stakeholders in the health and well-being of our Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
- - We have settled on three top-line Objective areas
- + Ecosystem (Shape, assets, liabilities, etc)
- + Metrics (What and How to measure health and change)
- + Strategy (How to affect positive change, leverage assets, etc )
- - We have taken an OKR approach thus far, the Key Results are ongoing topics of discussion
- - Three-month cohorts to avoid time and effort over-commit per participant
- - Mandatory attendance to avoid time and effort under-commit (consensus scheduling)
What is the Downtown Project Retrospective?
- - A look back at the Downtown Project located in and around Downtown Las Vegas
- - What worked, what did not work?
- - Listen to people who were participating and observing back then
- - Planning to take all of 2023, maybe longer
- - Survey style, open-ended timeline, to encourage participation
What is an Ecosystem?
- - Very similar to a biological ecosystem in nature (ie Ecology)
- - Consists of all the people, resources, and the physical environment with which they interact.
- - It is difficult to build an ecosystem, it may be more difficult to change an ecosystem
- + Las Vegas is a desert ecosystem with changes to enable comfortable living, movement
- + Las Vegas is a destination city with a strong tourism and hospitality base economy
- - One theory, changing our entrepreneurial ecosystem for a different focus may have a negative impact on the ecosystem as it is. Changing our Climax Community is no trivial undertaking.
- - Can we maximize our current entrepreneurial ecosystem without damaging existing members?
