NCET's Biz Café moves to the UNR Innevation Center!
NCET is very pleased that the UNR Innevation Center is the new home of NCET's monthly Biz Café events!
Starting in February, we'll be meeting in the VERY cool "Concept Café" the perfect space for our Biz Café lecture series. Thanks to Grace Chou, Ania Calvillo-Mason and the entire Innevation Center team for making this happen!
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NCET Biz Tips: Website Updates and University of Nevada, Reno Workforce Training
Should you re-do your website? Does the University of Nevada, Reno offer workforce training and other skills training? NCET’s panel of business and technology experts answer your questions in our monthly column.
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NCET Biz Tips: Starting Your Nevada Business: Part 13: Obtaining a Business License and Permits in Nevada
Ensuring your small business is compliant with local, state, and federal regulation is a big job and can be confusing for first time business owners. Many types of business licenses and permitting are available to you, but which are necessary? And what will suit your small business best?
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NCET Tech Awards - Nominations Now Open
Nominations are now open for the 2022 NCET Tech Awards, celebrating the Northern Nevada individuals and companies who have greatly enhanced the growth and prestige of technology community.
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NCET Biz Tips: Video and Visuals for Your Business
Are you using all the visual tools available to showcase your business or service to potential clients? Here are some tips so that you can take advantage of easily accessible tools to push your brand visually and polish your visual online identity.
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Housing prices broke records in 2021, slight market cooldown expected
Spurred by supply chain constraints, historically low interest rates, housing inventory shortages and migration changes influenced by the pandemic, Nevada's housing prices skyrocketed to record highs in 2021.
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NCET Biz Tips: The New Year is Time to Polish Up That Story and Check Your Marketing
With the new year comes time to reevaluate your marketing strategy and tactics, and most importantly, time to check your messaging and your story. In business, your story is the most important tool you have.
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Architects and Engineers: Designing Nevada’s Future
Construction was one of the industries considered essential during the pandemic shutdown in spring 2020. That included architects and engineers, who social distanced, worked remotely and wore masks, but kept working.
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Nevada to invest $4 million to expand robotics, STEM programs
The Nevada Department of Education announced a $4 million investment of American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds to expand access to STEM and robotics programs across the state.
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Hustle Culture is Dead. Welcome to Human Culture.
Companies that lean into Human Culture stand to win the war of talent and build sustainable growth.
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Dave Archer to Retire as CEO of NCET
Dave Archer, President and CEO of NCET, Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, has announced his retirement, effective mid-2022.
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NCET Biz Tips: Making Reno a Little Sweeter!
Did you know that Reno has a state-of-the-art candy production facility boasting a customer base stretching from coast-to-coast and encompassing more than eight international countries? That chocolate confection company is Kimmie Candy, and it continues to thrive right here in Reno.
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Amid vaccine rules and labor woes, 2021-22 ski season underway
The week of Dec. 13, Mother Nature dumped nine feet of snow within five days at higher elevations across the Sierra Nevada, sending ski resorts scrambling to get as much terrain open as possible to support the inevitable Christmas-New Year’s holiday crowds.
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Reno’s jobless rate ticks down to 2.9 percent
The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation released its region-by-region report for November, showing unemployment rates were 6.3 percent in the Las Vegas area, 2.9 percent in Reno-Sparks, and 3.3 percent in Carson City.
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Is Reno the next lithium capital? Companies are looking to Nevada for 'white gold'
The International Energy Agency reported in May that the energy sector is quickly becoming a major driver of demand for minerals. The agency has said that by 2040, technologies used to move away from fossil fuels, including electric vehicles and large-scale batteries, could drive nearly 90 percent of the demand for lithium.
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NCET Biz Tips: New Year Resolutions for Your Business
The New Year will arrive in a few days, so consider these resolutions for your business for 2022.
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State OKs $3.35 million in funding for workforce, student programs
This month, the Interim Finance Committee of the Nevada Legislature voted to approve $3.35 million in funding to the Nevada Department of Education for a trio of programs related to workforce development in the Silver State.
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Preparing for a Future Without Third Party Cookies
Cookies have been a part of online existence, pretty much since its inception, so most users barely think about them anymore. Marketers, however, have relied on both first- and third-party cookies to collect data, tailor advertisements and better understand the consumer’s user experience on a daily basis.
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University offers new dual-degree program in agricultural science and economics
The University of Nevada, Reno has created a new program to allow students to obtain both a Bachelor of Science in agricultural science and a Bachelor of Arts in economics in four years.
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NCET Biz Tips: 2022 Social Media Predictions
As we continue to survive together in this pandemic, we look for meaningful ways to maintain connections through the thriving landscape of social media. Here are six predictions for Social Media in 2022!
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