Show Notes
- - Host: Dan Hugo
- - Guest: Jamie Schwartz
- - Summary: You have been asked many times in your travels through the Greater Vegas Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, “Do you know Jamie Schwartz?”
Who is Jamie Schwartz?
- - More than 21 years in Las Vegas!
- - Before UNLV, UNLV, After UNLV, Back to UNLV
- - Business Development, Tech Transfer, and More!
Ecology
- - Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
- + What is it (a simplification of the 8 pillars described by Bambi Francisco)
- * Education/Talent Pool
- * Interlinked Communities
- * Government facilitation
- * Access to Capital
- + What do we have,
- +What is missing?
- - Which parts of our local ecosystem will enable which parts of our future increasing economic diversity?
- - The latest headlines, Las Vegas is Number 1!
- + Existentialism in our Ecosystem
- + Stag Hunt (Assurance Game)
- + Individualism vs Altruism
For Part II…
Education
- - Evolution of education for entrepreneurialism in general.
- - From 2014 to present day, where are we?
- - Other campuses (UNR, CSN, etc), integration and collaboration?
- - How much research happens at UNLV and how much of it is commercialized?
Exits
- - The nature of long-term investment vs short term growth/exit
- - Will this ultimately help the ecosystem, a focus on exits?
- - How common are exits recently, how much a culture shift might a focus on exits be?
Links
- - Bambi Francisco on Startup Cities like Oakland and Downtown Las Vegas (2014 Feb) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrcgKOQqCBk
- - Crowdfund Capital Advisors 2023 Best Cities fro Startups (Las Vegas Number 1) https://crowdfundcapitaladvisors.com/downloads/2023-best-cities-and-states-for-startups/
