Startup

Managing Madness with a Mentor: Meet Shontaye Hawkins, CEO of Profit is the New Black

by | May 21, 2020
In this week's 1:1 column, The DEC's Bill Chinn talks with the CEO of Profit Is The New Black about how to navigate highs and lows in business—and when to use your passion to create impact.
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Inc. Names 14 North Texas Companies to the Best Workplaces 2020 List
by | May 21, 2020
Dialexa, Munck Wilson Mandala, and OutMatch are among the DFW businesses that made this year's list.
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‘Work From Wherever’: Bottle Rocket Founder Deploys Tech, Revamps Processes for a New Future
It's an all-new attitude, CEO Calvin Carter says. A plan to 'work from wherever'—permanently—will foster a better work/life balance for employees and help the company recruit global top talent.
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Dallas Invents: 148 Patents Granted for Week of May 5
by | May 20, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Bank of America's security keys for data security based on quantum particle states, Bell's ID tags for tracking manufacturing of aircraft parts, The University of Texas System's nanowire-based magnets, Boot Royalty's comfort system for cowboy and work boots, Shavelogic's magnetic attachment for shaving cartridge, Texas Instrument's failure detection in a radar system, Textron Innovations' modular refueling systems for aircraft, and Verizon's device for managing unmanned aerial vehicle flight data.
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‘Mompreneurs’ Discuss How They’re Making It Work Amidst a Pandemic

by | May 18, 2020
This year, mothers running their own businesses have been presented with a new element to contend with due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The WEDallas Mompreneur Virtual Happy Hour speakers gave tips on how to deal with this and more during the annual event.
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‘This Name Better Represents What We Do’: Healthcare AI Startup Docsynk Rebrands As FelixHealthcare.AI
by | May 18, 2020
Felix—roughly defined as 'happy'—wants to make the healthcare journey happy and successful for all stakeholders. CEO
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DI People: Jacobs, Stream Data Centers, ECI Software Solutions, Make Moves
by | May 15, 2020
In this weekly roundup of executive moves in North Texas, you'll also find news from Envision Dallas, AspireHR, Alpine Advanced Materials, PrimeMyBody, and more.
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MedVentures Pitch Competition Goes Virtual, Dallas-based Ataia Takes Home the Top Prize
MedVentures' half-day virtual conference, organized by Dallas-based accelerator Health Wildcatters, kicked off the Polsinelli Healthcare Dealmakers Conference.
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A Newly Formed DFW Company is Making Equipment to Decontaminate N95 Masks With UV Light

by | May 13, 2020
Meet the group of North Texas innovators behind Hepius Equipment—and see why their onsite N95 mask decontaminator could be a gamechanger in battling coronavirus.
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Dallas Invents: 147 Patents Granted for Week of April 28
by | May 11, 2020
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Ahkeo Ventures' inhalable compositions comprising caffeine and apparatus, Alcon's augmented reality ophthalmic surgical microscope projection, AT&T's embedding interactive objects into a video session, DiscGenics' human disc tissue, Greenway Innovative Energy's syngas generation for gas-to-liquid fuel conversion, Halliburton's nano-particle reinforced well screen, and McKesson's methods for determining patient adherence to a prescribed medication protocol.
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Fort Worth-based eRx Network is Bought Back by Change Healthcare for $219M After McKesson Split
by | May 11, 2020
After merging with McKesson, Change Healthcare spun out eRx Network to former shareholders. When McKesson exited, Change Healthcare had the option to buy the Fort Worth company, which serves more 59,000 pharmacies, back.
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DI People: McKesson, Bell, Take Command Health, and More Make Moves

by | May 8, 2020
In this weekly roundup of executive moves in North Texas, you'll also find news from C-Hear, Ware Malcomb, WelCel, VertexOne, and more.
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Managing Madness with a Mentor: Meet Motorola Solutions’ Narasimha Raju Nagubhai
by | May 7, 2020
The DEC Network, a nonprofit supporting the entrepreneur ecosystem in North Texas, is helping small business owners get real with actionable advice from business leaders in a new column, 1:1 with Dallas Entrepreneur Center CEO Bill Chinn.
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A Dallas-based CBD Startup Founder Is Working on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
by | May 7, 2020
With her background as a cardiovascular ICU nurse, Katrina Thompkins has temporarily relocated to New York City to help local hospitals with patients diagnosed with COVID-19 after recently launching her startup K'dara CBD.
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Take Command Health Hires Kyle Estep as its Business Development Director
by | May 6, 2020
The Dallas health tech startup says the move comes as health reimbursement arrangements continue to accelerate in popularity.
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