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THE BOOMING FUTURE OF NEVADA!

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Originally published on LinkedIn  January 17th, 2015

 

I love this great community.

Last weekend, I spent Sunday afternoon at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada. Maker, a documentary on the maker movement, played with just one cinematic showing. The film is a delightful window into the future of technology by democratizing hardware creation and localizing manufacturing. The movie’s perspective emphasized a new industrial revolution era, with a shift toward localized producers making highly specific custom products, uniquely tailored per the consumers’ creative wishes.

Sitting in a crowd of people whose lives resonated with the theme of the film, I could not help but draw comparisons to the Reno maker movement culture, startups, and the visions portrayed.

We are in an extremely exciting time and our local community is making sizable moves to embrace entrepreneurship. The needed economic diversification, after a gaming revenue collapse, has left politicians and constituents with an open mind for new ideas. The maker movement and a startup culture is glowing with new light. Home to prototype design facilities like Bridgewire (maker space), The Generator (art creation space); and establishments that catalyze startup growth like The Reno Collective (co-working space) and C4Cube (incubator), Reno is poising itself for an entrepreneurship boom.

Northern Nevada is primed for emerging company growth. The timing is right and the ingredients are gathered. Leading companies like Tesla, Apple, and Amazon are all realizing that the tax structure, weather/climate, proximity, governmental agility, and costs are very favorable in our region.

Now is the time for our community to embrace whatever changes are necessary to create a system that trains people to have the technical skills to build incredible software and hardware, emphasis on software. Reno born companies, such as, Trainer Road and Pinoccio  –> Now Filament are leading the charge of recent successful startup launches with HUGE potential to scale yet have to outsource a large proportion of software development to outside experts.

We need those experts here. And we get them by making them.

In this growth and transformation period, it’s essential that we concentrate on developing our education curriculum to include highly relevant content and a system with state-of-the-art methods of delivery to people who want to learn.

Vote for that! Sign petitions like this for that!

Our firm, Hess & Associates, is currently rebranding and launching alongside the rest of the Reno entrepreneurship community. Check out a SNEAK PEAK of our website through this link: www.HessLegalSolutions.com

We are excited to help catalyze this local, entrepreneurship focused growth by helping founders navigate the stages of development, from an idea to product to exit. Many times, the hardest part is just learning where to start. We can help.

Today, social media rang loudly with another announcement of a Northern Nevada booming expansion. Switch, a Las Vegas company, is set to build a ONE BILLION DOLLAR data-center in Northern Nevada, just outside of Reno. We are shifting rapidly to a technology community and that’s good news for us.

The future of Northern Nevada looks awesome. Let’s build and launch it!

 

Kyle Steven Hess
Attorney At Law
775.323.1311
Kyle@Hess.Associates
3500 Lakeside Court, Suite 150
Reno, Nevada 89509