Entrepreneurial Update EDAWN Entrepreneurial Development Department has been chosen to receive a $300,000 grant from (over three years) the U.S Department of Commerce! U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, announced that 42 organizations - including nonprofits, institutions of higher education, and entrepreneurship-focused organizations from 28 states, will receive over $17 million to create and expand cluster [...]
Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce The team made 11 visits in August and seven of those companies are growing. Two are new companies to the area. We referred two companies to internship programs and made eight connections between business and education. EDAWN continues to remind companies about the benefits of hiring interns at [...]
CEO Great National Media Continues ...and with Burning Man recently, we have seen an uptick in national coverage - In case you missed it: MSNBC: How Reno, Nevada is rebounding from the Great Recession Wall Street Journal: Reno puts out the welcome mat for Burning Man USA Today: Nevada Museum of Art's "City of Dust" [...]
Investor Update EDAWN would like to thank all of our investors for their continued support this fiscal year. We cannot be successful at attracting, retaining and growing companies in the Greater Reno-Sparks area without you! Thank you to the following new EDAWN investors: Aflac Insurance has joined as a Gold Investor! MAG Consulting andSouthland Industries have [...]
Entrepreneurial Update The 2017 Collaboration Coins have hit the streets! By providing people with the startup deck and collaboration coin, it's our intent to deputize the community to grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Local coffee shops are the watering holes & meeting places for our startups and we want to continue to encourage "serendipity". You can [...]
Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce The Business Retention, Expansion and Workforce Development team visited 13 companies in July and provided a variety of assistance to many of them. 8 of the 13 are adding new positions in the coming year. We are always looking for opportunities to make business to business connections and [...]
CEO What an amazing amount of positive media in the past few weeks: CBS This Morning News: August 4, 2017 | For decades, Reno, Nevada,was a gambling mecca but when casinos fell on hard times, Reno struggled. Now, the city has reinvented itself as a tech hub. Mayor Schieve joined "CBS This Morning" to discuss how Reno has [...]
Investor Update EDAWN would like to thank all of our investors for their continued support this fiscal year. We cannot be successful at attracting, retaining and growing companies in the Greater Reno-Sparks area without you! Thank you to the following new EDAWN investors: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP has joined as a Gold Investor! MAG [...]
Entrepreneurial Update Reno's makeover into soaring tech hub: Tesla, Panasonic, Switch and more... Doug Erwin, the Senior VP of Entrepreneurial Development at EDAWN wrote for VentureBeat this month highlighting the benefits of Reno's growing startup ecosystem; VentureBeat is the the leading source for news, events, groundbreaking research and perspective on technology innovation. "Faced with sharply rising costs in [...]
Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce Development The Business Retention, Expansion and Workforce Development team visited over 140 new and existing primary companies over the past 12 months, and assisted 94 companies in a variety of ways including making introductions to resources, helping facilitate connections with education, taking business concerns forward to the appropriate [...]