Unemployment is down in Northern Nevada, and that is generally a good thing. Except when it’s not, and that’s when you’re a business owner looking to hire. Finding new employees has become a real challenge for some businesses seeking to fill positions in high demand roles.
Read MoreFor small business owners, it may be easy to see the external threats to your business: competitors in your market, disruption in your supply chain, property damage, etc. But it can be more difficult to see internal threats to your business. As busy days take over and the business starts to grow, paying attention to a few key things will save a small business time and money in the long run.
Read MoreAs a business owner or marketing professional, can you say you’ve consistently devoted time to practicing the fundamentals of your trade? Employing daily or weekly practices toward marketing fundamentals can contribute to incremental and tangible success. Specifically, there are three essential marketing “basics” that are time-tested to aid in accomplishing business goals.
Read MoreOn February 15, 2019, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) publicly announced the State of Nevada as an award recipient for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) Technical Capability Level (TCL) 4 operation.
Read MoreAn ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This saying is especially true when you are dealing with feuding employees. Productivity suffers when the dynamic between employees, or perhaps those in the C-level, is off-kilter.
Read MorePeople agree that one of the best ways to find and create the perfect business connections is to build relationships with the right individuals. But, what if you don’t even know who they are? One of the better ways to find and cultivate those connections is through networking.
Forty-eight students from 21 majors and seven colleges at the University of Nevada, Reno have turned in their “Intent to Compete” in the 2019 Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition. The $50,000, winner-takes-all business plan competition is entering its eighth year, and organizers are changing the way the competition is run.
Read MoreThe program gives Nevada high school students the opportunity to work full-time as production associates at the Tesla Gigafactory in Northern Nevada. Planted east of Reno-Sparks in Storey County, the 1.9-million-square-foot-and-growing factory manufactures electric batteries, including motors for the Model 3, Tesla’s first mass-market vehicle.
Read MoreIf you’ve flown on an airplane or sailed on a cruise ship, the odds are that Click Bond has helped make that a safe and energy efficient journey for you. Click Bond is a family-owned and operated company headquartered in Carson City that creates innovative mechanical hardware solutions for aircraft, cruise ships, naval ships, and even the Mars Curiosity Rover.
Read MoreDave Archer has been re-elected as president and CEO of NCET, a member-supported non-profit that produces educational and networking events to help people explore
Read MoreDid you know consumers make more than 160 billion searches per month on Google alone? Everyone wants to take advantage of this, either through PPC campaigns or a strong SEO strategy. How far do some companies go?
Read MoreAt its Gigafactory east of Reno, Tesla is remaking an old idea — the company cafeteria — with a new economy spin, helping local food and drink vendors with the cost of setting up shop so they can feed 7,000 employees at the complex that produces batteries and drive units for Tesla’s electric vehicles.
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