Caffe Genius Impressarios
Caffe Genius is all about thinking outside the box, from Experimental Meetup Colaboratories to Pitch Workout Rooms to the Genius Roundtable and more; the idea is to consider seriously the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem (based in Greater Las Vegas… for now) and how we can measure and elevate it, and Impressarios can describe these and more with their stories. With deliberate spelling.
Episodes
December 19, 2025 • 59 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: The calendar year is nearly ended and a new one soon to begin, the world is in its current state, as is your neighborhood, if you are working on something novel on a small team of co-founders or maybe on your own, it is entirely possible that you find yourself stalled. Let’s talk about it.
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HO...
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December 12, 2025 • 50 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: There has been a lot made of the Soft Summer and the general slowing of tourism and all that entails for Vegas, to the point where people are a little bit worried about the economy in general. What about we entrepreneurial innovators, how are we doing and how are we coming along?
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile...
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December 5, 2025 • 40 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: This plan was originally Initiative 2025 from back in Episode 0097, we can review that Initiative and tune it up in this original episode for the next attempt at getting this going for 2026…
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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November 28, 2025 • 23 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: Sure, it is Black Friday, but here in Nevada, our state holiday is Family Day, a day for the whole family to go out shopping and get those discounts, or something like that. Keeping it brief on this holiday so I can do something similar, let’s catch up on a couple of Ecosystem things.
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Pr...
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November 21, 2025 • 40 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: We talk a lot about the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem, the so-called Startup Scene, and sometimes Hollywood 2.0 and Global Innovation Hub and a few other things, but it occurs to me after mentioning how little coverage any of this gets in our local press, that those who are not checking the box for Entrepreneur may have no idea what goes off the strip.
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November 14, 2025 • 56 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: The Halo Effect, Warm Introductions, Low Attention, Lack of Recognition and Celebration, is the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem benefiting from The Velvet Rope?
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- LVGEA EDAWN Joint Effort Announcement https://lvgea.org/l...
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November 7, 2025 • 67 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: If you have heard a few episodes of this program, you know I tend not to appreciate labels like “Tech Scene” and “Startup Scene,” they are so over-used but they do have a time and a place in some contexts. Okay then, let’s make an entrepreneurial innovation scene.
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile Page Linking Ev...
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October 31, 2025 • 37 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: It is Halloween, yes, but today is also another anniversary of Nevada joining the Union, becoming another of these United States. A State Holiday, so we will try to keep it brief on this special day.
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- Nevada Day https://e...
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October 24, 2025 • 38 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: It is late in the year to get Initiative 2025 back on track, but we can transition into a second in-person cohort of the Genius Roundtable by starting out online, like we used to back in the pandemic days!
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- Community of P...
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October 17, 2025 • 55 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: If you caught our episode of this program last week (which you can do at any time), you may have noticed interchangeable use of Cohesion and Coherence in the context of a City as a System, also the title of that episode. Today, let us tease those two terms apart.
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile Page Linking Eve...
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October 10, 2025 • 54 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: A region, a city perhaps, which is moving toward diversification is more likely to be successful doing so if it can maintain coherence. What does that mean, and why should this sound familiar?
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- Why Some Cities Thrive Whil...
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October 3, 2025 • 46 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: Solopreneur, something that has come up only infrequently but going solo is not unpopular, and is in fact something to consider very seriously here in Greater Vegas as the Ecosystem orients itself. Do you solopreneur?
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- Wh...
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September 26, 2025 • 42 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: Every once in a while I remember that I, too, am an Entrepreneurial Innovator in our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem here in Greater Vegas, and who better a guest to have at the end of September than yours truly?
Links
- Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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September 19, 2025 • 41 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: Last week we covered what I describe as The Problem, which applies to our Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem at large here in Greater Vegas. This week, having skipped Startup Week 2025, I have reasons and ideas for the next one.
Links
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- HOST Buy Me an Update https://www...
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September 12, 2025 • 46 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: Consider this another in an intermittent series on how a vibrant Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem might emerge from one that might be languishing…
Links
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
- HOST KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts
- Caf...
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September 5, 2025 • 38 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: Some believe and will tell you that First Mover Advantage is the secret to success, they might even implore you to drop everything in pursuit of your idea. What if instead, you take an existing idea and innovate around that?
Links
- HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buyme...
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August 29, 2025 • 40 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: There was a time when being in Stealth Mode was cool, mysterious, maybe even interesting once the veil of secrecy was lifted. I am wondering out loud if we are back to something like that in Vegas, with the more interesting endeavors maybe staying below the radar?
Links
- HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- HOST Buy Me an...
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August 22, 2025 • 40 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: No, this is not an episode about Marxism, it is some pondering of the bifurcation of Greater Vegas into those who make claims about what goes on, and those who feel it. Maybe some familiarity with Marx would come in handy.
Links
- HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhu...
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August 15, 2025 • 68 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: The future of Greater Vegas is Fun Economy, Hollywood 2.0, BioTech Research, and of course The Next Silicon Valley. Has anyone asked the people living here what they think?
Links
- HOST Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- HOST Buy Me an Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts
- HOST KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/p...
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August 8, 2025 • 42 mins
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: The Visitor and Convention numbers for our Destination Oasis in the Desert are off, and this is just making the mainstream press beyond Nevada, and even beyond the US. These are harbingers for international and domestic tourism both quite important to the Greater Vegas Economy…
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