In an industry dominated by large brands, Tahoe Blue Vodka has quickly established itself as a legitimate contender When Matt Levitt dreamt up Tahoe Blue Vodka in 2011, he never expected the brand would quickly become one of the best selling and fastest growing vodkas in...
Business in the Tahoe area is on the rise, but with an increasing sensitivity to environmental impact The flipside of the beauty that draws businesses to Lake Tahoe is its fragility, and to that end, the mantra for business going forward, observers say, will be one...
Reno is finding its economic stride. In between the gargantuan Gigafactory pumping out Tesla car batteries east of town and household tech names like Apple and Microsoft that have set up shop in the Biggest Little City, a host of young startups are cropping up. ...
Location, they say, is everything, and Filament, a provider of software solutions in the swelling “Internet of Things” (IoT) world, is exquisitely positioned in Reno....
Jeff Pickett credits his friend Franz Weber, the former world champion speed skier, for the advice that spawned his latest business venture. Now, after years of tinkering, testing and designing, Pickett is convinced that his Reno-Tahoe-based NuDown jackets and vests are fit to compete with...
Alexander Harmsen’s eyes are on the sky where he sees endless opportunities for making airspace safer for commercial drones. “Lots of industries are going to need this,” Harmsen says of collision avoidance software that his company, Iris Automation Inc., with a home office in San Francisco...
Some business adages never get old. For Jonathan Murray, chief executive officer of MyVR, it is this: If you see a void, fill it. Seven years ago, MyVR co-founders Murray, Michael Stachowiak and Markus Nordvik saw such a void in an absence of easy-to-use software solutions...
When he talks about the Great Recession, Chip Bowlby, managing partner at Reno Land, Inc., is at the same time bullish and chagrined. At the time, he said he’d never again develop here after the Northern Nevada housing market burst spectacularly into recession. But then again,...
Six years ago, what is now referred to as the “startup ecosystem” was practically nonexistent. The Entrepreneurial Development team at the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) was created to grow and develop the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Northern Nevada, along with the help of...
Terren Gomez unlocks the faded red door to his Eloise Avenue workshop. Inside, the smell of sawdust, varnish and wood glue drifts under yellow fluorescent lights. A 10-foot slab of freshly glued black walnut lies on one surface, clamps squeezing drops of adhesive from its...