Episode 0005: Roundtables and Retrospectives

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?