Startup

Obstacle Course Creator Ninja Nation Opens Second DFW Location

by | Sep 9, 2020
Ninja Nation's new Murphy arena marks the beginning of its franchising program.
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Dallas Invents: 150 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 25
by | Sep 9, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Textron Innovations' autonomous package delivery aircraft, Interstate Battery's battery ecosystem, American Airline's demand class remapping for airline seat bookings, NIKE's ground-engaging structures for articles of footwear, ADT's portable system for managing events, Global Tel*Link's product ordering and delivery for inmates, R2 Solutions' targeted sidebar advertising, Ortloff Engineers' hydrocarbon gas processing, and Oceus Networks' mobile cellular networks
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SKU DFW: Introducing the Inaugural Cohort for the ‘First Consumer Products Accelerator’
by | Sep 8, 2020
Five consumer packaged goods later-stage startups have been chosen for an eight-week accelerator program taught by the industry’s top experts.
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Second Annual Women of Innovation Summit Helps Female Entrepreneurs Take Their Dreams to the Next Level
Get an inside look from some of North Texas' female entrepreneurs and C-Suite professionals to see what they consider to be the keys to success.
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Capital One’s Corporate Innovation Summit Fosters Collaboration Between Entrepreneurs and Corporate Allies

by | Sep 3, 2020
Hear from Hesam Hosseini, CEO of Match; Stephen Bohanon, founder of Alkami; Jim Adler, managing director of Toyota AI Ventures; Rex Kurzius, founder of Asset Panda; and more at Dallas Startup Week's Corporate Innovation Summit.
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Here’s Why Female Creatives Are ‘Unique Unicorns’ in the Industry
by | Sep 3, 2020
During a Dallas Startup Week panel, three women in art and business talk about how to break the status quo in male-dominated industries.
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Dallas Startup Week 2020 State of Entrepreneurship: ‘This Year Has Been Tough, But Dallas Is Tougher’
by | Sep 3, 2020
During this year's event, DSW20's State of Entrepreneurship award winners were announced.
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Dallas Cowboys Legend Turned Entrepreneur Darren Woodson Has Four Cs He Lives By
by | Sep 2, 2020
Darren Woodson is a former Dallas Cowboys safety and today a successful entrepreneur. Though his two careers have looked different, here are his words of wisdom that have gotten him through every major moment, from sitting in the locker room at the Super Bowl to founding his own company.
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Study Says: Working from Home is Giving People Their Time Back

by | Sep 2, 2020
What are you doing with your extra four and a half hours? A recent study shows that remote workers have gained back 10 percent of their work week by not commuting.
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To Common Desk, COVID-19 Wasn’t the Death of Coworking. It Was the Start of Something New
by | Sep 2, 2020
Trey Bowles and Delanie Majors from The DEC Network hosted Founder and CEO of Common Desk Nick Clark to discuss how his company is innovating to help entrepreneurs get back into shared office spaces.
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Top 10 Dallas Innovates August 2020
Dallas Innovates’ 10 Most Popular Stories in August
Rising to the top of the list: How the private charitable foundation of Dallas Mavericks Owner and “Shark” Mark Cuban partnered up with tech companies to bring an "AI Bootcamp" to underserved DFW students. Here's our roundup of the Top 10.
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Dallas Invents: 149 Patents Granted for Week of Aug. 18
by | Sep 2, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Apple's approach for traffic overhead and UE mobility tradeoff, Audatex North America's mobile system for generating a damaged vehicle insurance estimate, Capital One's database image matching using machine learning with output estimation, Flowserve's near field RF powered electronic valve actuator, Ingar's management of aerial drone parcel transfers, IBM's location-aware trust-based P2P currency exchange, Lennox's intelligent defrost control method, and Oceus's mobile cellular networks.
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BeautyBio CEO Jamie O’Banion Advises ‘Women of Innovation’: Don’t Let Doubt Get Under Your Skin

by | Sep 1, 2020
O'Banion shared industry lessons she has learned in a decade of entrepreneurship during Dallas Startup Week's Women of Innovation Summit.
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NTT Data Pushes Dallas-Fort Worth Startups to Enter Open Innovation Contest
by | Sep 1, 2020
CTO Kris Fitzgerald thinks of Dallas as having "pragmatic innovation." NTT DATA wants to tap into that.
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Disrupt Dallas: Minority Founders Discuss How ‘Innovation Lives in the Hood,’ Emerging Tech, and Where to Go From Here
by | Aug 31, 2020
Local entrepreneurs talk emerging tech, overcoming challenges, how to be more diverse within your organization, and where to go post-COVID.
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Experts from RevTech Ventures and Accenture Interactive Discuss the Future of Retail During Dallas Startup Week
by | Aug 31, 2020
In an age nicknamed the “retail apocalypse” by analysts, marketing experts spoke on digital pioneering amid economic crisis at DSW20.
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