A lack of housing, basic infrastructure and population density coupled with a very visible homeless presence are the obstacles that entrepreneurs say are keeping downtown from realizing its full potential as a startup hub.
Entrepreneurs
In the past 18 or so years, Rob Roy has taken a different kind of Las Vegas hotel — one that rents out space for data instead of people — and turned the idea into one of the technology industry’s largest initial public offerings of 2017.
Three seniors at Cimarron-Memorial High School emerge victorious in contest based on popular ABC television show with “Conditional Cubes,” a beta product designed to help young students learn computer coding.
“Food Network Star” alumnus Victor “Vic Vegas” Moea will take his 7 Sinful Subs to the southwest valley early next year. He tells us a lease has been signed for the sandwich shop to be located at Fort Apache Road and Tropicana Avenue. Look for it to open in January. One big difference at this spot, the chef tells us, will be that “you can have a damn beer with a knuckle sandwich now.”
In 2015, North Las Vegas-resident Mike Ziethlow had an idea for creating something like a Yelp for independent music, but he didn’t know how to turn that idea into a product.
Three golden ideas — the brainchildren of Clark County School District high school students— will be refined, perfected and presented center stage at CES 2018. A panel of judges selected the ideas last week.
The program, which aims to help local small businesses grow by providing local consumer, demographic and industry data to business owners, became permanent in July.
The festival gates open at 2 p.m. today for 2017’s Life is Beautiful festival.
Christy and Bob Swadkins became owners of the Summerlin branch of Golden Heart Senior Care last fall, gaining their first client in September.
The electric car company’s newest vehicle is set to go to its first 30 customers Friday evening. Its $35,000 starting price — half the cost of Tesla’s previous models — and 215-mile range could bring hundreds of thousands of customers into the automaker’s fold, taking it from a niche luxury brand to the mainstream.
Monica Pappas entered the entrepreneurial world young, selling lemonade, babysitting and doing yard work for her neighbors as a kid.
Caleb Lystrup, a 28-year-old Las Vegas native, is co-founder and one of two CEOs for Khione Outdoor Gear, with Casey Messick.
Entrepreneur Brent Patterson has grand plans. He envisions his single-serve containers with coffee beans in Strip resorts as part of the in-room coffee service.
In August 2013, Andrew Citores packed up his belongings in San Francisco and moved his 17-member startup company, JusCollege, to Las Vegas.
A bag for basketballs, a knee implant and specialized windows for resorts are among the finalists in this year’s UNLV business plan competition.
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