02 Dec Filament Flourishes in Growing Reno Tech Scene
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....
02 Dec Farewell, Feathers
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...
02 Dec Iris Automation Aims to Keep Airspace Safe
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...
02 Dec MyVR Simplifies the Vacation Rental Business
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...
02 Dec Transforming Reno Icons
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,...
02 Dec Tapping into Reno’s Startup Ecosystem
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...
04 Apr On the Table
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...