Congratulations to local entrepreneur Darik Volpa, "Best of Show for Nevada"

Fellow Reno-Tahoe Entrepreneur's Organization member Darik Volpa, CEO of UnderstandSurgery.com won "Best of Show" for Nevada at the 6th Annual Silver & Gold Venture Capital Conference at the Peppermill in Reno, Nevada. Congratulations Darik!

If you want a full run-down of yesterday's events, you can read a great summary by Reno-Gazette reporter Zack Hall.

All-in-all this was perhaps the best Silver & Gold Venture Capital Conference I've been too, and it is on par or better than many I've attended in California, Utah and New York. Golden Capital Network put on a great show. The energy level was high, the investors eager and plenty of entrepreneur's with great ideas and business plans.

A 'couple of my favorites:

• Obviously I love Reno, Nevada entrepreneur Darik Volpa's company UnderstandSurgery.com. He has developed has a unique product for the medical industry that has a tremendous market upside and can help people all over the world.
• While I didn't see the whole presentation, I did catch the 2-minute elevator pitch' by CEO Matthew Glenn of Plantsense. They make a sensor that you can place in a part of your home and it will take all kinds of readings and then you USB it in to your computer and it will make plant recommendations. (I should have started this company "LaPlante, CEO "Plansense" hahaha)
  
• Reno-based E-FanMail.com's CEO John Johnson has developed a wonderful way of showing support for sports teams through your email and allowing sports teams to raise additional awareness and sponsor dollars. I know a thing or two about email...and this has some promise to it.
  
• As I mentioned in my previous post, Rudi Wiedemann's Biodiesel Solutions and Arthur Neumann's Free Water are amazing ideas and will really change the world.

Thanks again to John Gregory for putting on such a wonderful show and, of course, Bob Goff of the Sierra Angels for tirelessly beating the "angel investing" drum for Reno-Tahoe.

 
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