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Every Last Word
Dallas Innovates’ signature series capturing what leaders across North Texas are saying — in their own words — about innovation, impact, and what’s next.
Cinnamon roll delights from the Holy Rollie Pastry Shop [Photo: Holy Rollie]
The Last Word: Holy Rollie Pastry’s Kimberly Matthews Has Advice for Founders
by David Seeley | Aug 14, 2023
Williams is one of four North Texas entrepreneurs we profiled last week who got funding through The DEC Network from the Small Business Administration's Community Navigator Pilot Program.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 11, 2023
The California-to-Texas relocation trend grabbed attention from coast to coast last week when USA Today reported on it in a story titled "'We kept getting outbid': Californians moving to Texas explain why they're changing states."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 10, 2023
Dallas has proven to be an ideal home base for Cypress Growth Capital, Quincy Preston wrote last week in Dallas Innovates. The firm's unique model is defying norms in the funding landscape by fostering rapid growth without diluting entrepreneurial control.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 9, 2023
One Rangers Way—an architecturally striking luxury residential project being built in the Arlington Entertainment District—isn't slated for completion until December 2024. But pre-leasing has been underway for three weeks now, triggering "incredible interest and momentum," according to The Cordish Companies, the building's developer.
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Cameron Cushman, who first noted the innovation happening in physical health in Fort Worth more than three years ago, was the catalyst for the Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator. [Photo: Techstars]
The Last Word: HSC’s Cameron Cushman on Fort Worth’s ‘Guide to Starting a Small Business’ Webpage
by David Seeley | Aug 4, 2023
"No matter where you are in your startup journey, the City of Fort Worth's "Guide to Starting a Small Business" webpage directs small business owners to local resources—all in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide," the post reads.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 3, 2023
The Madrid-based competition winners describe their winning proposal to reimagine the Dallas Museum of Art "as a reflection of the original building, transforming the relationship between art, landscape, and community into a balance of memory and innovation."
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by David Seeley |
Aug 2, 2023
Watch out for something curious the next time you walk, run, or bike down Dallas' Katy Trail at the Thomson Overlook. There you'll find the two "alien avatars" created by artist Nic Nicosia after a commission by The Austin Contemporary.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 31, 2023
Johnson and four other U.S. mayors recently joined with the coalition to announce a project to cool cities and metropolitan areas with "Smart Surfaces"—an integrated solution that aims to reduce heat and fight climate change through the use of reflective "cool" roofs and pavements, green roofs, solar energy, porous pavements, rain gardens, and trees.
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Fahad Khawaja (left) at MassChallenge's MC | Innovate 2023. [Photo: Jackie Loubriel / MassChallenge]
The Last Word: Hue’s Fahad Khawaja on the Importance of Community-Building in Innovation
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jul 27, 2023
During a keynote discussion at MassChallenge's recent MC | Innovate 2023, event at Pegasus Park, Khawaja stressed the importance of trust and community-building in the innovation process.
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The Last Word: DeSoto Mayor Rachel Proctor on Asking Residents To Take Part in City’s Video Campaign
by Lance Murray |
Jul 26, 2023
“By taking the time to look at our residents up close, and showing who they are and how they make a difference in the fabric of our city, everyone will be able to see the DeSoto that I see," Mayor Proctor said in a statement. "And they’ll know exactly why there's so much to love about DeSoto.”
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 25, 2023
Sheehan, who joined the experiential art collective Meow Wolf in 2019 after working at Walt Disney Imagineering for a decade, spoke with ArtNet about the collective's recently opened permanent exhibition at Grapevine Mills mall in Grapevine.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 24, 2023
Now, instead of building its prefab houses on home sites, HiFAB is putting them together at the plant in three or four Lake|Flato-designed "modules." Later, they'll be put together like Lego blocks once they arrive at their permanent addresses.
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Dr. Shalini Prasad, professor of bioengineering at UT Dallas and co-founder of EnLiSense. [Photo UTD]
The Last Word: UTD’s Shalini Prasad on How High-Tech Soil Sensors Can Help Gardeners and Farmers
by David Seeley | Jul 20, 2023
"This is the equivalent of having a wearable health sensor on your body that tells you in real-time what’s happening," Prasad said. "Think of it as a wearable for the soil."
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by David Seeley |
Jul 19, 2023
Since co-founding it in 2002, Mirza has led Akorbi, a provider of translation, interpretation, staffing, call centers, learning services, and localization. Writing in LinkedIn, she discusses a different kind of translation: asking generative AI tool Bing to create an image of a woman fighting robots. Bing refused, saying it couldn't display violence.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 18, 2023
The daughter of Filipino immigrants took a long, winding road to get to her office at Old Parkland, from a coveted spot at New York City's public Stuyvesant High School to a $5-an-hour job at JPMorgan Chase tugging bond trades out of pneumatic tubes to a finance and accounting degree at New York University.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 17, 2023
Sunday was national AI Appreciation Day, so to mark it, the Dallas Regional Chamber did a Q&A with Charania and Babar Bhatti, co-founder and EVP of DallasAI, a nonprofit forum to accelerate learning and adoption of artificial intelligence.
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