On Feb. 25, more than 400 joined us to celebrate Dallas Innovates’ launch.
It was the same night many of you witnessed …
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires,” said the late famous author William Arthur Ward.
Almost 80 percent of the 160,000 students …
IN 2009, THE DALLAS THEATER CENTER (DTC) AND BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL for the Performing and Visual Arts formed a partnership. DTC implemented an audition-based, college-level acting class at the school, and each year since, professional artists have been …
Fort Worth’s Near Southside is home to hospitals and big business, but it also has become a gathering point for many people at its restaurants, shops and apartment communities. (Photo courtesy Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau)
“THE COMMON MANTRA…
DALLAS IS MORE THAN A HUB FOR INNOVATION. It’s a meeting place for the best thinkers in the world to come together to discuss big ideas, create …
Mark Cuban’s passions for the Dallas Mavericks and Shark Tank could be combined at his new practice facility.
Conceptual plans presented by architecture students at Texas A&M show a mixed-use facility with an NBA court, team offices, a team store, …
The city of Dallas, Uber, Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas and several community groups announced on Wednesday the DriveSouth Initiative to sign up 2,500 new drivers in southern Dallas within the next 12 months.
The DriveSouth Initiative supports Mayor Mike Rawlings’ …
Spring always brings change to Texas. Bluebonnets are blooming, new businesses are bursting onto the scene and one tech accelerator founder is leaving to attend a coding bootcamp in New York City.
Motive founder John Backes and his wife, Amber, …
One of the main goals of Dallas ISD is to graduate students who are college and career ready. For many of us, this means ensuring that our young people have obtained the best K-12 instruction and support possible to allow …
Toyota may be a year away from opening its Plano headquarters, but the automotive giant already is impacting its new community through Toyota Family Learning, a multigenerational family learning initiative that aims to empower both children and their parents.…
Jennifer Sanders has been named the first executive director of the Dallas Innovation Alliance, the organization leading the Smart Cities effort in Dallas.
Sanders, a co-founder of Dallas Innovation Alliance, already has begun her duties at the public-private partnership dedicated …
At the start of 2016, the North Texas region did not have a Carnegie-ranked top-tier research university.
By February, it had three.
The University of North Texas is now ranked as a top-tier research university along with our peers in …
When you think about urgent care, you probably imagine busy waiting rooms, impersonal service, and a hefty tab to pay at the end — all while you’re uncomfortably sick or injured. As Jonathan Clarke, founder and CEO of Mend, puts …
A debilitating skiing accident left BackVert’s David Calvert with chronic back pain, but it also prompted him to found his own startup to help solve the problem.
Now, three years after the ski accident, his company is gearing up for …
It doesn’t happen very often, maybe five times over the past 20-plus years, in one form or another I am asked by donors, foundations, and philanthropic organizations how they could best invest …
The University of Texas at Dallas and the Addison TreeHouse are teaming up to serve students in the entrepreneurship program at the university.
Under the partnership, the TreeHouse will provide startups from within the entrepreneurship program at UTD space at …
Cover up all the logos and branding on your company’s website and its advertisements. The result should still be a website that’s engaging and, most importantly, different from your competitors, business owners were told Thursday at the Entrepreneur Summit 2016.…
It doesn’t matter where you start or where you end up, says Howard Dover, PhD, professor and director of the Professional Sales concentration at The University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management. Your future will include …
Dallas-Fort Worth is host to a diverse mixture of nationalities, capabilities and needs, and we tend to react respectfully but ambivalently to innovation — that is, until the moment of clarity when we recognize that innovations undeniably improve our lives.…
Two years ago, Brenda Stoner encountered an all-too-common problem: She had to move a bunch of heavy things across town, but had no truck or cost-effective way of doing so. A true entrepreneur, Stoner’s problem invoked a solution: create an …
