Episodes

  • Episode 0152: Goodhart in Vegas

    Episode 0152: Goodhart in Vegas
    Jan 23 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Goodhart’s Law states that “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” So about those tourism stats…
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Goodhart’s Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
    • LVCVA Research https://www.lvcva.com/research/
    • LVCVA Fabulous Five-Day Sale https://press.lvcva.com/all/las-vegas-kicks-off-the-fabulous-5-day-sale-today/s/65399c90-ab5e-4207-a0c8-cc70b9a17da5
    • Sarah Paine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_C._M._Paine
    • Sarah Paine on current Strategy and Potential Outcomes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUE1n8yWng
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Episode 0151: Bootstrap Vegas

    Episode 0151: Bootstrap Vegas
    Jan 17 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Everybody is waiting for the final report for 2025 regarding the Vegas Slump that everyone is already reporting on, and if you are waiting for some central planning, advice from above, and a supply side economy to enable your entrepreneurial innovation journey, we need to talk.
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • LVCVA Research https://www.lvcva.com/research/
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    57 mins
  • Episode 0150: Retro Go

    Episode 0150: Retro Go
    Jan 9 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Vegas, we have a problem. It probably started 100 years ago, and it most definitely got worse in 2025. We are not talking about quite what you might be thinking, but close.
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Apollo 13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13
    • Feynman Challenger Article https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3570/1/Feynman.pdf
    • Feynman Appendix https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v2appf.htm
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    42 mins
  • Episode 0149: Vegas Colaboratory

    Episode 0149: Vegas Colaboratory
    Jan 2 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: I have spoken of the Colaboratory notion in a previous episode, now that our new year has commenced, the time has come to deploy this scenario and see what happens.
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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    32 mins
  • Episode 0148: Retrospective 2025

    Episode 0148: Retrospective 2025
    Dec 27 2025
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The final full week of 2025, seems like a fine time to publish an episode looking back not at the episodes of the year, but how we have seen the Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem evolve, for better or worse.
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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    43 mins
  • Episode 0147: Stall Recovery

    Episode 0147: Stall Recovery
    Dec 19 2025
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The calendar year is nearly ended and a new one soon to begin, the world is in its current state, as is your neighborhood, if you are working on something novel on a small team of co-founders or maybe on your own, it is entirely possible that you find yourself stalled. Let’s talk about it.
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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    1 hr
  • Episode 0146: What Are Vegas KPIs and OKRs ?

    Episode 0146: What Are Vegas KPIs and OKRs ?
    Dec 13 2025
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: There has been a lot made of the Soft Summer and the general slowing of tourism and all that entails for Vegas, to the point where people are a little bit worried about the economy in general. What about we entrepreneurial innovators, how are we doing and how are we coming along?
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • F1 Year 3 News https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/dec/10/f1s-las-vegas-grand-prix-success-exposes-need-for/
    • OKRs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectives_and_key_results
    • KPIs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_indicator
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    50 mins
  • Episode 0145: Initiative 2026

    Episode 0145: Initiative 2026
    Dec 5 2025
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: This plan was originally Initiative 2025 from back in Episode 0097, we can review that Initiative and tune it up in this original episode for the next attempt at getting this going for 2026…
    Links
    • Caffe Genius Hompage https://caffegenius.org
    • HOST Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
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    40 mins