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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 there will be a Town Hall meeting: “... A Conversation on Energy”. Hosted by ConocoPhillips and Desert Research Institute (DRI), and moderated by Dr. Roger Jacobson, DRI Vice President of Academic Affairs & Chief Officer for Faculty Relations.  Panelists and speakers include: Dr. Jason Geddes — Manager of Government ...

Entrepreneurship Week USA -- a nationwide celebration of entrepreneurship -- is February 24 to March 3, 2007. It’s a great opportunity for Nevada to showcase and encourage the entrepreneurs upon which Nevada's economic future depends. Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology has partnered with Entrepreneurship Week to promote within Nevada. “Entrepreneurs, educators, community leaders ...

Please join us on January 18th for 2007's first Tech Thursday, Northern Nevada's premier technology and entrepreneurial networking event! EDAWN's Chuck Alvey will give a brief update on the Target2010 study and their action plan to make the Target2010 study a reality.  DRI Research Park's Jeff Pickett will provide an overview of ...

Joe Calhoon, CSP, is recognized as one of the nation's leading authorities on leadership development and organizational performance. In the past 20 years, Joe has given over 2,000 presentations to more than 400 organizations on four continents. His clients include Ritz Carlton Hotels, 3M, Best Buy, and General Electric. Before ...

My boys woke up excited as this makes their 3rd (of 10 I believe) sanctioned events in which they can wear their Halloween costumes all day in public. Both boys began their Tigger-like bouncing at 6am this morning excited for Nevada Day. Logan said, "Dad, we LOVE Nevada!!!" Then the boys proceeded to rattle off ...

The Business Report of Northern Nevada in partnership with Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology are calling for nominations for Entrepreneur of the Year. Nomination deadline is November 17, 2006.Click the image for details.Technorati : entrepreneur, reno, nevada, ncet, cet, award, business

Quick event summary:The time, money and energy we --America-- waste on the IRS and our ridiculous tax-code evasion game if invested in R&D and education would ensure our global dominating class-barrier-breaking affluent economy. We piss our advantage away on lawyers and accountants playing a stupid cat-and-mouse game with the IRS. Stupid we collectively are.Most of ...

Quick event summary:The time, money and energy we --America-- waste on the IRS and our ridiculous tax-code evasion game if invested in R&D and education would ensure our global dominating class-barrier-breaking affluent economy. We piss our advantage away on lawyers and accountants playing a stupid cat-and-mouse game with the IRS. Stupid we collectively are.Most of ...

I write this sitting from a local casino convention center floor with the thumping beats of Huey Lewis & the News in the background...groovy. While I've written many times how wonderful our EV-DO and EDGE connectivity is in the Reno and Tahoe destination, it's only been in the last year that WiFi connectivity has been ...

I write this sitting from a local casino convention center floor with the thumping beats of Huey Lewis & the News in the background...groovy. While I've written many times how wonderful our EV-DO and EDGE connectivity is in the Reno and Tahoe destination, it's only been in the last year that WiFi connectivity has been ...

Apparently this viral video isn't dying out anytime soon! I posted about it on September 14th, noting that it had ~110,000 views then. It's blown to over 650,000 views now and has been featured on Good Morning America. Awareness of this video within the Reno blogosphere is somewhat viral in of itself. Myrna the Minx ...

Apparently this viral video isn't dying out anytime soon! I posted about it on September 14th, noting that it had ~110,000 views then. It's blown to over 650,000 views now and has been featured on Good Morning America. Awareness of this video within the Reno blogosphere is somewhat viral in of itself. Myrna the Minx ...

I'm migrating my davidlaplante.com domain today and there's cache issues. If things look normal...great. If the site looks goofed up, it should take a day to sort itself out with servers that have cached the site.If you came here on a www.davidlaplante.com link, try these URLs to see if the style-sheet formatting comes back:http://davidlaplante.typepad.com/http://davidlaplante.typepad.com/davidlaplante

I'm migrating my davidlaplante.com domain today and there's cache issues. If things look normal...great. If the site looks goofed up, it should take a day to sort itself out with servers that have cached the site.If you came here on a www.davidlaplante.com link, try these URLs to see if the style-sheet formatting comes back:http://davidlaplante.typepad.com/http://davidlaplante.typepad.com/davidlaplante

Let me just start by saying I'M DONE. DONE WITH SUMMER. DONE.Heavenly has seen its first snowfall of the season!!!! It snowed for much of the day today, Thursday, October 5th. Just showed the boys this photo that Heavenly emailed to me. They're in their room now finding their ski gear. (I wish I had ...

Let me just start by saying I'M DONE. DONE WITH SUMMER. DONE.Heavenly has seen its first snowfall of the season!!!! It snowed for much of the day today, Thursday, October 5th. Just showed the boys this photo that Heavenly emailed to me. They're in their room now finding their ski gear. (I wish I had ...

Fellow Reno-Tahoe Entrepreneur's Organization member Darik Volpa, CEO of UnderstandSurgery.com won "Best of Show" for Nevada at the 6th Annual Silver & Gold Venture Capital Conference at the Peppermill in Reno, Nevada. Congratulations Darik!If you want a full run-down of yesterday's events, you can read a great summary by Reno-Gazette reporter Zack Hall.All-in-all this was ...

Fellow Reno-Tahoe Entrepreneur's Organization member Darik Volpa, CEO of UnderstandSurgery.com won "Best of Show" for Nevada at the 6th Annual Silver & Gold Venture Capital Conference at the Peppermill in Reno, Nevada. Congratulations Darik!If you want a full run-down of yesterday's events, you can read a great summary by Reno-Gazette reporter Zack Hall.All-in-all this was ...

Last night was the welcoming reception for the Silver Gold Venture Capital Conference. My oh my! What a difference two years makes in investor confidence! The conference is packed and full of energy. It's BACK ON BABY! Right up front here's the statistic that matters: Northern Nevada has 13 companies on the roster of 30 ...

Last night was the welcoming reception for the Silver Gold Venture Capital Conference. My oh my! What a difference two years makes in investor confidence! The conference is packed and full of energy. It's BACK ON BABY! Right up front here's the statistic that matters: Northern Nevada has 13 companies on the roster of 30 ...