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How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014. Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, organized and runs the series, and has made the series available for streaming here. Throughout Summer 2015, Las Vegas...
A team of UNLV students and faculty members took the top prize in the 2015 Dominic Anthony Marrocco Southern Nevada Business Plan Competition for SmartOrtho Detect, a shoe insole system that helps diagnose the earliest stages of diabetic foot problems. This annual...
HotterKeys is a game for Mac and PC that teaches keyboard shortcuts on an adventure through spacetime as Olivia, an otter who's trying to protect Otterspace from its slow menu driven destruction. Las Vegas native and VegasTech community member Mark Johnson and his...
Las Vegas' own Cimarron-Memorial High’s robotics team, the High Rollers, took second place this year at the Robotic World Championship held in St. Louis, Mo. The competition attracted more than 600 teams from 23 countries. Cimarron-Memorial High’s robotics team was...
StartupBus encourages entrepreneurs to jump on a bus and conceive, build, and launch a startup with a team of strangers in 72 hours. For the sixth year in a row, the StartupBus will be hitting North America. The competition will take place the first week of June...
Aaron Lelevier, originally from San Diego, works as a full time as a Senior Database Analyst at the Hardrock Hotel & Casino. He also work part time as a freelance web developer using Python/Django. Recently, Lelevier had an idea to offer free tutoring at The...
VegasTechFund-backed Banjo announced the close of a $100 million Series C led by Softbank, alongside BlueRun Ventures. The team has a Las Vegas office at The Innevation Center. "This funding will help make our vision to build the ultimate crystal ball a reality,"...
Las Vegas-based The Influential Network is one of the largest influencer marketing companies in the world. The Influential Network creates branded campaigns using top social media influencers on Twitter, Instagram, Vine, and Snapchat. The Influential Network...
Salesforce has long been an advocate of integrated philanthropy, encouraging peers to adopt its 1-1-1 model. In partnership with Pledge 1%, Salesforce for Startups makes it easy for startups to integrate philanthropy at an early stage. On May 4, 2015, Julia...