Episode 0010: Our Entrepreneurial Ecosystem with Mo Collins

Show Notes - Host: Dan Hugo - Guest: Mo Collins - Summary: The recently-released report, Empowering Entrepreneurship | Nevada Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Assessment and Strategy provides an interesting overview of the state and regional ecosystem as-is and some ideas for the near term, let´s meet its author! Who is Mo Collins? - How did Mo get to Entrepreneurial Communities, LLC? - Life in Iowa - No Website? (now we don´t feel so bad) The Report - Did you read it? If not, a little exposition from Mo… - How were the Nevada participants selected? - What was the stated mission on commission (ie was there any leading at the start) - Let us define *Entrepreneurial Ecosystem* Points of Discussion - We focus more on Southern Nevada, aka The Greater Vegas Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, but there are statewide initiatives… - Entrepreneur Support Orgs (ESOs) FTW (eg orgs similar to SRC elsewhere…) - Where are the Veterans? - Insular communities and people who build bridges - Why is Dan Hugo (Me!) mentioned on page 66 (full disclosure: Dan never spoke with anyone with EC or the study, only after the fact) - Focus on the Innovation District and Black Fire leaves out a lot of geography and people - How about Aspirational Entrepreneurs? Where are they, are they enabled? - Saving some for Part II (12 months survival follow-up?) Links - [Nevada Project Report on Nevada Entrepreneurial Ecosystems from Entrepreneurial Communities by Mo Collins](https://www.edawn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Final-Empowering-Entrepreneurship-Nevada-Ecosystem-Assessment-and-Plan-April-20-2023.pdf)