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NCET Tech Tips: The FLSA final rule on overtime is blocked . . . Now what?

January 25, 2017 by Dave Archer

Melissa Marsh

Just prior to the effective date of December 1, 2016, the Department of Labor’s final rule updating overtime regulations, was blocked by a federal judge in Texas. The final rule makes significant changes to salary threshold requirements for overtime pay for employees.

Filed Under: NCET, RGJ columns Tagged With: Melissa Marsh, NCET, Nevada Business, Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, Reno Gazette-Journal, RGJ

Funding Your Company: Debt versus Equity

June 15, 2014 by Dave Archer

One of the greatest challenges facing businesses today is securing financing, whether to fund current operations or to expand them. When you look for funding, your choices are debt financing – where you borrow money, or equity financing – where you look for someone to invest in your company. Each option has significant plusses and minuses. For example, When you borrow money, the lender doesn’t have a claim on your business’ equity, so borrowing money doesn’t dilute your ownership interest in your business.

Filed Under: RGJ columns Tagged With: Dave Archer, Funding Your Company - Debt versus Equity, NCET, Reno Gazette-Journal, RGJ

Help for your small business: Made in Nevada

June 8, 2014 by Dave Archer

Want to reach new markets for your products, food and art? Made in Nevada (MIN) — the Silver State’s longest running marketing cooperative – promotes Nevada-made products, food and art and serves as the voice of its member businesses. As a champion for Nevada-based manufacturers and artisans, MIN likes to say, “Made in Nevada: What Happens Here Goes Everywhere.” MIN’s statewide membership of 125 small businesses range from light manufacturers to small-batch artisans. MIN membership is open to any business which produces products, food or art of which at least 51% is made in Nevada. MIN’s membership dues are $100 per year.

Filed Under: Business Resource Profiles Tagged With: Dave Archer, Made in Nevada, NCET, Reno Gazette-Journal, RGJ

RGJ: Rapp’s role – Piloting Nevada drone future

May 14, 2014 by Dave Archer

Warren “Bum” Rapp, a retired military aviator, is at the controls of Northern Nevada’s emerging program to develop commercial applications for unmanned aircraft commonly called “drones.” The program he heads up is focused on business uses for unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. That can mean anything from helping map potential mining acreage to improving agricultural concerns to nighttime aerial monitoring of wildfires.

Filed Under: RGJ columns Tagged With: Bill O’Driscoll, Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems, Reno Gazette-Journal, RGJ, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Warren Rapp

Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce

May 4, 2014 by Dave Archer

NCET’s Dave Archer looks at the human side of Nevada’s various economic and industrial sectors, and explores some of the fascinating degree programs offered by our local colleges and universities – each specifically designed by our educational institutions to provide our students with the skills and training they’ll need as they enter the rapidly changing workforce.

Filed Under: RGJ columns Tagged With: Dave Archer, Reno Gazette-Journal, RGJ, Sierra Nevada College, Truckee Meadows Community College, University of Nevada Reno, Western Nevada College

RGJ: Buy Nevada First effort pushes locally owned businesses

May 2, 2014 by Dave Archer

Dave Asher says the best way to create jobs is to buy local. Toward that end, he’s created BuyNevadaFirst.com, a website aimed at helping people find businesses that are locally owned and headquartered in Nevada.

Filed Under: NCET Tagged With: BuyNevadaFirst.com, Dave Asher, Nevada Business, Reno Gazette-Journal, RGJ

RGJ: HIDEIt Mounts creates niche in TV market

April 22, 2014 by Dave Archer

Relina Shirley, however, the system served as the spark behind her startup HIDEIt Mounts. More specifically, Shirley’s journey into the entrepreneurial world can be traced to the Wii’s sensor bar. Well, that and her inner interior designer.

Filed Under: NCET Tagged With: HIDEIt, Jason Hidalgo, Nevada Business, Reno Gazette-Journal, RGJ, Rilena Shirley

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