Month: March 2016

Sabari Raja: How Nepris Helps the Community Grow

by | Mar 22, 2016
Sabari Raja talks about where the idea for Nepris came from, how DFW helped the company grow, and what’s next for the new company.
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Deep Space Ventures Focused on Dallas Startups
by | Mar 22, 2016
The decline of the oil and gas industry could be a boon to the Dallas startup sector. Just look at Deep Space Ventures, a new venture capital fund that’s already shelled out $1.75 million. Read more about it in the Dallas Business Journal.
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Fan Media Network Adds Crowd-Source Funding
by | Mar 21, 2016
The Dallas startup now gives its “correspondents” the ability to crowd source funding so they can improve their production and even follow the team on the road.
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Roma Boots Combines Fashion with Philanthropy

by | Mar 21, 2016
It’s due in part to these humble beginnings that Bistrian, founder and CEO of Roma Boots, is driven to help people. He grew up one of 12 siblings in a small town in pre-revolutionary Romania -- and as he puts it, “life was tough.”
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Chad Houser: How Café Momentum Changes Lives
by | Mar 21, 2016
Have a wonderful meal. Help change lives. It’s a simple, but powerful message put forth by Chad Houser, executive director and executive chef at Café Momentum
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Pieces Technologies Helps Hospitals Improve Health Care
by | Mar 18, 2016
Dallas technology startup Pieces Technologies has secured $21.6 million in Series A funding and launched its software in Children’s Health System of Texas.
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Mouser Continues Innovation Interview Series
by | Mar 18, 2016
Celebrity engineer Grant Imahara, of "Mythbusters" fame, conducts the interviews on topics about innovation.
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Purposeful Innovation can be Transformative

by | Mar 17, 2016
Innovation often leads transformative leaders away from concerns about the survival and sustainability of their own organizations or current operations.
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Using Drones for Search and Rescue Missions
by | Mar 16, 2016
On average, there are more than 11 search and rescue missions for missing persons each day in the U.S. alone.
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Bird Strikes
DFW Airport’s Innovative Plan Prevents Bird Strikes
by | Mar 16, 2016
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport uses both high-tech methods and Mother Nature to control birds at the sprawling facility.
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Is the New Business of Board Games a Roll of the Dice?

by | Mar 15, 2016

When Sean McCoy and Alan Gerding met at a game industry conference, their ideas for a new line of board and card games meshed well, so they started working on their first game.

Their creation became Tuesday Knight Games (TKG), and it’s a hit.

In October 2013, TKG announced the development of their Two Rooms and a Boom!...

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Earth Day Texas to Feature ‘Earth Tank’ Event
by | Mar 15, 2016
Earth Day Dallas has grown in the past few years, so much so that now it is called Earth Day Texas.
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Mark Cuban Makes Headlines with Austin Appearance
by | Mar 14, 2016
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and an investor on the hit ABC television show Shark Tank, was in the news over the weekend for his appearance in Austin near the South by Southwest Conferences and Festivals.
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Booster Fuels’ Delivery App Brings Gas to You
by | Mar 14, 2016
Frank Mycroft’s dream of creating an on-demand fuel delivery app has transformed a startup into a $12.5 million company with operations in North Texas and Northern California.
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