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A Shoestring Public Relations Strategy for Startups
Startups face two serious hurdles — they have an undeveloped or untested product and they have no established reputation. In an entrepreneurial technology world cluttered with thousands of companies claiming to be the next Twitter, Pinterest or Airbnb, these can be startup-killing problems. Public relations can go a long way toward solving these problems for legitimate [...]
ElectraTherm Commissions Green Machine in Czech Republic at Biogas Plant
ElectraTherm, a Reno-based leader in small-scale, waste heat to power generation, installed a Green Machine at a biogas plant in Slapanov, Czech Republic, in its second collaboration with biogas plant constructor EnviTec. ElectraTherm and its distributor, GB Consulting, commissioned an ElectraTherm Green Machine in January to generate additional power and increase energy efficiency on site, [...]
Reno Rebirth: Program for success
Jason Jarret’s co-workers sometimes talk about their awful commutes at Vertigo Software’s morning meeting. They’ll apologize for being late and complain about being stuck in the Bay Area’s stop-and-go traffic. “And I’ll say I stepped on a Lego this morning so it was a rough commute for me,” Jarret said with a laugh. Vertigo is a custom software [...]
Pure Ski Experience takes 2nd place in Tri-State Undergraduate Competition
Sierra Nevada College’s Pure Ski Experience won 2nd place and $20,000 in the Reynolds Tri-State Competition at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. Pure Ski Experience is devoted to sharing the knowledge and skills of world-class and Olympic skiers with motivated clients, offering them the ultimate life-changing learning experience on the slopes through advanced and goal-oriented [...]
Pure Ski Experience Heads to the Tri-State Business Plan Competition
Pure Ski Experience continued its journey from idea to action with the Second Place prize in the statewide Donald W. Reynolds Business Plan Competition on Thursday, April 18th in Reno. Team members have journeyed from SNC’s Innovative Idea Competition last August to a first place win in the College’s Jâlé and Warren Trepp Business Plan [...]
Tour of Ormat’s Steamboat Complex Facility – Jun 5
The daily commuters that travel on the new I-580 between Carson City and Reno can’t help but notice the large plumes of steam that emanate from the hills of Galena, and few know that the Ormat’s Steamboat geothermal power plant complex currently produces over 86 MWe (net capacity) – enough renewable energy to meet the [...]