Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce The Business Retention and Expansion team made 7 company visits in September.. and provided assistance to 2 companies. In September, we also launched two taxi tops promoting Nevada JobConnect, to help publicize the fact that JobConnect is the place to go for those seeking employment, in addition to businesses [...]
CEO How did Northern NV Now do in our fiscal year 2017? The Northern NV Now Board tracks our progress using a dashboard that details metrics in a few main areas, job attraction, job retention, entrepreneurial job creation and workforce development. This dashboard is aligned with our strategic plan and our funding. The Northern [...]
2017 Startup Vendors Breadware Tunetrax Cycle.io HavinTea Think Biosolution Buzz.Tools Conscious Container SUPrSTRAP Reno Happy Project Trenlot' INC Community Yogi TripSee BitGive Flashvote Talage rtlsLab TactiKey Mindful Media Services Wyred Insights BikeCargo Zzem Screw KeepOnMovin' Entrepreneurial Resources: 1 Million Cups Ozmen Center for Entrepreneurship Truckee Meadows Community College Career Center University of Nevada, Reno Career [...]
Entrepreneurial Update Northern NV Now 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 [...]
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. Northern NV Now continues to remind companies about the benefits of hiring [...]
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 Northern NV Now 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 Northern NV Now investors: Aflac Insurance has joined as a Gold Investor! [...]
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 [...]