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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.
Rose, 4, is screened by an Orbis-trained doctor in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, following a successful surgery. [Photo: Geoff Oliver Bugbee]
The Last Word: Why Fort Worth’s Alcon Foundation Is Sponsoring Orbis’ ‘Flying Eye Hospital’ Mission to Mongolia
by Lance Murray | Aug 8, 2024
The Alcon Foundation has supported Orbis International for more than 40 years, providing monetary donations for the Flying Eye Hospital and its mission to prevent and treat avoidable blindness around the world. The latest mission is in Mongolia through August 22.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Aug 7, 2024
When it comes to nurturing entrepreneurship, Dallas Startup Week casts a wide net. In a recent FOX 4 interview, The DEC Network's Kendall Kennedy highlighted the event's inclusive approach to supporting entrepreneurship and business growth in North Texas.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 6, 2024
Most North Texans have walked outside at night to spy a raccoon or possum nosing around in the dark. But you may be surprised to know how many creatures really burn the midnight oil across Dallas-Fort Worth. Alligators, bats, bobcats, the American mink, river otters, green tree frogs, and owls galore are just some of the nocturnal animals that feel right at home here.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 5, 2024
In the Lone Star State, tech isn't just big—it's booming. With high-tech jobs growing at twice the speed of overall state job growth, Texas has an appetite for tech talent. Enter Amazon Web Services (AWS) with its Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance, a recipe for bridging the tech skills gap.
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Minuteman Press franchisee Kenny Clark [Photo: Minuteman Press]
The Last Word: Kenny Clark on Snagging a McKinney Minuteman Press Franchise for Just $32K
by David Seeley | Jul 31, 2024
In 2014, Clark scouted North Texas for a Minuteman Press printing services franchise with a secret ingredient: failure. He told Entrepreneur's Liz Brody he liked the company, but opening a new franchise could set. him back more than $200K. So he found a struggling location in McKinney and got the deal of a lifetime—snapping up the franchise for just $11,000 plus a $21,000 transfer fee.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 31, 2024
Dallas' Deep Ellum is famous for the 130 murals that cover walls, bridges, and columns throughout the neighborhood east of downtown. Now two of those mural artists are opening Blowouts & Company in a space where "southwest Boho meets Alison Wonderland inside of your cool grandmother‘s purse."
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by David Seeley |
Jul 29, 2024
For Dallas-based RIP-IT Sports, designing sports gear for women isn't an afterthought after all the men's gear has been wrapped. Instead, the company says it is "100% dedicated to women athletes, offering innovative softball, volleyball, soccer, and athletic gear tailored specifically for female athletes."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 26, 2024
UniverSoul Circus has returned to Dallas, bringing its international, multicultural "hip hop under the big top" to The Shops at RedBird at 3662 Camp Wisdom Road for performances through August 11. But before the fire breathers blew their first flames and the acrobats took their first leaps, the circus offered a preview at Dallas City Hall Wednesday, where Atkins other city officials, and the public got a taste of this year's "Family Reunion Tour."
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North Texan Connor Hubbard celebrates his "normal" 9-to-5 life on Instagram. [Photo: Instagram]
The Last Word: How a Suburban Dallas Influencer Is Celebrating ‘Normal’ Life on Instagram
by David Seeley | Jul 24, 2024
Most Instagram influencers dazzle their followers with glammed-up, too-perfect-to-be-true lifestyle posts. But not Connor Hubbard, who meticulously captures his "normal" 9-to-5 lifestyle with scenes from his suburban Dallas home and job.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 23, 2024
When Dallas-based Match Group snagged Bernard Kim as its new CEO in 2022, he was president of mobile game maker Zynga, where he was credited with boosting Zynga’s market cap on the way to its $12.7 billion acquisition by Take-Two Interactive. Since then, he's been trying to "level up" Match's dating apps by getting users to pay extra for services so they'll "win" in the game of love, according to a new profile in the Wall Street Journal.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 22, 2024
He designed a prom tuxedo that isn’t just totally awesome—it’s waterproof, too. And now Isaac Cervantes has won two international awards and $16,000 in scholarships in the 2024 “Stuck at Prom” Scholarship Contest presented by Ohio-based Duck Tape.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 19, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth has become "the trading card capital of the world," with two big industry players, Leaf and Panini America, headquartered in the region, and top local auction houses routinely hammering sales of rare, headline-grabbing cards.
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Rendering of PS1200 in Fort Worth [Image: Marlon Blackwell Architects]
The Last Word: Marlon Blackwell on the PS1200 Project in Fort Worth’s Magnolia Village
by David Seeley | Jul 17, 2024
In the heart of Fort Worth's eclectic Magnolia Village neighborhood, PS1200 is an eye-catching sight. The "public space with private moments" at 1200 6th Avenue comprises a public space, a park, eight row-house apartments overlooking the park, six offices within the park, and a restaurant and two retail spaces. The key attraction, though, is those eight apartments with their swooping Quonset hut-like arches:
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The Last Word: MICHELIN Guides Director on Expanding to Dallas, Fort Worth, and 3 Other Texas Cities
by David Seeley |
Jul 16, 2024
A MICHELIN star—not to mention the ultimate prize, three stars—can turn an everyday restaurant into a must-go culinary destination, with seatings booked from opening to close. That coveted rating will be available in Dallas, Fort Worth, and three other Texas cities for the first time ever later this year, Michelin announced Tuesday.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 15, 2024
Garcia's Cornbread Hustle is a staffing agency that helps people with criminal records and those in recovery find meaningful employment, by working with "forward-thinking companies" that value second-chance hiring.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 12, 2024
Rachel Larlee operates an e-commerce site called Rachel Larlee Studio and teaches classes out of a physical studio at The Village apartments in Dallas. But no matter where she is or what she's doing, one of her goals is practicing the art of gratitude—and often, expressing it through art and creativity.
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