Jeremy Vickers with the University of Texas at Dallas talks about the entrepreneurship community being one of giving before you get. “You see a ton of mentorship, a ton of relationship building, and a ton of people that are willing to say, ‘I’m willing to help you because it’s about you, not about me,'” he says. “I think that’s what defines Dallas as a community.”
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