question: Riviera Partners is a provider of technical search and recruiting services, specializing in talent acquisition for emerging growth companies, Riviera Partners' clientele includes, Zappos.com is an online shoe and clothing shop based in Las Vegas, in which state?
answer: Nevada
context: Title: Acqui-hiring
  Passage: Acqui-hiring or Acq-hiring (a portmanteau of "acquisition" and "hiring") or a talent acquisition, is the process of acquiring a company to recruit its employees, without necessarily showing an interest in its current products and services—or their continued operation.  "Some technology blogs call it being 'acqhired.'  The companies doing the buying say it is a talent acquisition, and it typically comes with a price per head," the "New York Times" reported in a page-one story describing the phenomenon on May 17, 2011.  The process of a talent acquisition also provides a relatively favorable exit strategy for employees with the prestige of being bought by a larger company, combined with the typical process of hiring.
  Title: Riviera Partners
  Passage: Riviera Partners is a provider of technical search and recruiting services, specializing in talent acquisition for emerging growth companies.  Since its inception, Riviera Partners has focused on building technology teams primarily for startup companies.  Riviera Partners' clientele includes, among others, ServiceNow, Xoom, One Kings Lane, Uber, Path, Okta, Pure Storage, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Zappos.
  Title: Small Cap Liquidity Reform Act of 2013
  Passage: The Small Cap Liquidity Reform Act of 2013 ( ) is a bill that is intended to increase the liquidity on the stock market of stocks belonging to emerging growth companies.  It would allow small companies to choose a tick size of $0.05 or $0.10 instead of the standard $0.01.  To participate, companies would need to have stock prices of over $1.00 and revenues of less than $750 million.
  Title: Tony Hsieh
  Passage: Tony Hsieh ( ; born December 12, 1973) is an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist.  He is the CEO of the online shoe and clothing shop Zappos.  Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded the internet advertising network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft in 1999 for $265 million.
  Title: Stellar Search
  Passage: Stellar Search and Selection Pvt. Ltd. is an executive search firm (a headhunting /recruitment firm) headquartered in New Delhi and is one of the earliest search firms in the country to offer a specialized Healthcare and Life-science senior talent acquisition service.  The company now provides senior talent acquisition services across diverse industry and has an increasing focus on Gender Diversity hiring.
  Title: Alexander Lloyd (venture capitalist)
  Passage: Alexander "Alex" Lloyd is a venture capitalist, and the founder and managing partner of Accelerator Ventures, an investment and venture fund.  Lloyd was an early investor in many companies that have gone public or merged, including online shoe company Zappos which was acquired by Amazon.com in 2009 in an all-stock deal worth about $1.2 billion and semantic job search engine Trovix which was acquired by Monster.com in 2008 for $72.5 million.
  Title: Sourcing (personnel)
  Passage: Sourcing is a talent acquisition discipline which is focused on the identification, assessment and engagement of skilled worker candidates through proactive recruiting techniques.  Professionals specializing in sourcing are known primarily as Sourcers; but also Internet Recruiters, Recruiting Researchers or Talent Scouts.
  Title: Zappos
  Passage: Zappos.com is an online shoe and clothing shop based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  Title: Las Vegas Uncork'd
  Passage: Las Vegas Uncork'd (also referred to as Vegas Uncork'd and Vegas Uncorked) is an annual culinary and wine event in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The concept was developed by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, their advertising agency R&R Partners and Las Vegas resort partners who originally considered a number of magazine partners such as Bon Appetit, Food & Wine and Gourmet.  Bon Appetit was selected as the magazine partner after a review with each magazine.  The event was launched in 2007 by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, "Bon Appétit" magazine led by Editor-in-Chief Barbara Fairchild and co-creator and Executive Director Rob O'Keefe who led the first five years of development of what Eater.com called "the world's most innovative culinary event".  Las Vegas resort partners over the years include Bellagio, Caesars Palace and Wynn Las Vegas, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, The Venetian, Las Vegas and The Palazzo and each year the event features more than 80 celebrated chefs and over 25 events occurring over a spectacular four-day weekend.
  Title: SMTC Corporation
  Passage: SMTC Corporation (Surface Mount Technology Centre), founded in 1985, is a mid-size provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services (EMS) including PCBA production, systems integration and comprehensive testing services, enclosure fabrication, as well as product design, sustaining engineering and supply chain management services.  SMTC facilities span a broad footprint in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China, with more than 2,300 employees.  SMTC services extend over the entire electronic product life cycle from the development and introduction of new products through to the growth, maturity and end-of-life phases.  SMTC offers fully integrated contract manufacturing services with a distinctive approach to global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and emerging technology companies primarily within industrial, computing and communication market segments.  SMTC was recognized in 2012 by Frost & Sullivan with the Global EMS Award for Product Quality Leadership and 2013 with the North American Growth Leadership Award in the EMS industry, as one of the fastest growth companies in 2012.
citations: Riviera Partners Zappos