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.
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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.
PlateJoy, a meal planning startup, announced its Las Vegas launch Thursday morning.
The increasing local presence of large, national companies and the acquisitions of local startups have boosted the credibility of Las Vegas’ tech scene, resulting in more local startups, increased upward mobility for local tech talent and a stronger draw for new tech talent.
An analysis of startup activity across 39 metro areas and all 50 states being released Thursday by the Kauffman Foundation found Las Vegas trailed only Miami, Florida; Austin, Texas; Los Angeles and San Diego.
Planning to make Mom the star this weekend? Don’t wait too much longer to make reservations for Mother’s Day brunch or dinner.