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Overair, City of Arlington To Develop and Launch eVTOL Operations at Arlington Municipal Airport

by | Nov 16, 2023
Overair said it expects the eVTOL air taxi operations to offer a direct connection to Arlington's Entertainment District, the home of Six Flags Over Texas, Hurricane Harbor, the Texas Rangers, Dallas Cowboys, Arlington Renegades, and the WNBA’s Dallas Wings—as well as numerous restaurants, shopping centers, museums, and live entertainment venues. The service could begin in 2028.
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The Last Word: Chris Gannett on How Cowboys-Giants Thrashings Mirror Dallas’ Business Edge over NYC
by | Nov 10, 2023
Gannett, a former chief marketing officer for "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance,"  launched  Dallas-based Gannett.Partners to provide leadership coaching, operating advisory services, and strategic capital solutions. A native of Dallas who's lived in New York, he knows both cities well—and believes things are trending Dallas' way.
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Anurag Jain and Clark Hunt on stage at Venture Dallas in October 2023. [Image: Grant Miller Photograph/Venture Dallas]
Billionaire Blueprint: Chiefs and FC Dallas Owner Clark Hunt on Winning, Leadership, and Taylor Swift
by | Oct 27, 2023
NFL and MLS titan Clark Hunt shares the playbook for transforming the KC Chiefs into reigning champions. In a wide-ranging conversation, the lifelong Dallasite talks with Anurag Jain about attracting young female "Swifties" to the NFL, his family's 90-year sports and business roots — and how his dad named the Super Bowl and the Lombardi trophy.

Hunt kicked off the first installment of the Venture Dallas "Conversations with Champions" series.
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American Flag Football’s Inaugural 2024 Season To Feature Big Games in North Texas, Including the Championship
by | Oct 24, 2023
Launching with four teams in Dallas, Las Vegas, Boston, and Nashville, the New York-based American Flag Football League will cap off its inaugural season with a championship game at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco.
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Dallas Startup Week 2023: Where Big Names and Big Ideas Power North Texas Entrepreneurs

by | Sep 6, 2023
The DEC Networks' eighth Dallas Startup Week, hosted at UNT Frisco from September 10-14, features entrepreneur and Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, AOL's Steve Case, Nextdoor Co-founder Nirav Tolia, rapper-turned-investor Chamillionaire, and BuzzBallz CEO Merrilee Kick among its 200 speakers and 100 events.
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Dallas Cowboys Are World’s No. 1 Most Profitable Sports Team, Forbes Says
by | Jun 5, 2023
The Dallas Cowboys pile up more than some of the NFL's leading offensive and defensive statistics. They also stack up profits—more than any other team on earth by far, according to a new Forbes report. In the past three years alone, the 'Pokes pulled down $1.17 billion in operating income, according to Forbes' list of The Most Profitable Teams in Sports. And it wasn't only from the gridiron—the Cowboys bank profits in innovative ways through everything from e-sports and gaming to lucrative sponsorships.
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Dallas Cowboys Help Net $113K for North Texas Nonprofits with Reliant Home Run Derby
Usually they race for the end zone, but Wednesday some of the Dallas Cowboys' top players swung for the fences at the Reliant Home Run Derby in Frisco. And whether they got dingers or popups, it was all for a good cause. Find out which Cowboy won for the second straight year—as two all-new 'Pokes players joined in the fun.
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‘Air’ Producer Skydance Sports and NFL Films Are Doing a Docuseries on Jerry Jones
by | May 4, 2023
Skydance produced the hit movie “Air,” directed by Ben Affleck and starring Affleck, Matt Damon and Viola Davis, about the birth of the Air Jordan Brand. With "Jerrah" as the star of its new project, Skydance aims to mine "never before seen content" from the NFL Films vaults to reveal the Dallas Cowboys owner like never before.
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Famed ‘Ninja’ Joins Frisco’s GameSquare as CIO, Will Lead New Incubator

by | Feb 24, 2023
Gaming and pop culture celeb Tyler "Ninja" Blevins is bringing his content innovation talents—and his 18 million Twitch followers—along for the ride at GameSquare, which is backed by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Crescent Realty founder John Goff of Fort Worth.
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NFL Approves Dallas Cowboys Plan to Pay for $295M in AT&T Stadium Upgrades
Earlier this week, we told you the Dallas Cowboys were planning $295 million in upgrades for AT&T Stadium. During NFL league meetings in Irving in the last few days, the team got a green light on their plan to pay for the job, Sports Illustrated's Mike Fisher reports.
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AT&T Stadium Is Getting a $295 Million Upgrade
by | Dec 12, 2022
Jerry World is still a marvel to millions, but it's not quite as cutting-edge as when it first opened in 2009. Now the Dallas Cowboys are about to do something about it, with $295 million in upgrades planned for AT&T Stadium. That's according to a report by Sports Business Journal, which says the refresh won't "radically alter" the look and feel of the 100,000-seat stadium. Instead, most of those millions will go toward refreshing premium spaces that are set for lease renewals, as well as upgrading back-end systems and technology in the run-up to the 2026 World Cup.
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Troy Aikman on Launching EIGHT Beer, How Meditation Changed Him, and Why the Right People Matter More Than a Great Idea
by | Nov 17, 2022
Troy Aikman spoke in a fireside chat at the Venture Dallas conference last week with Ameeth Sankaran, CEO of Religion of Sports. Here's what he shared on his businesses past and present; how Roger Staubach inspired his post-NFL life; his advice on choosing your team; and the importance of wellness for both life and work. "If you don't feel good, it's hard to do good," Aikman said. "I feel the best I've ever felt, and I'm probably doing the best good that I've ever done."
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Follow the Money: Actuate Therapeutics Raises $11.2M to Fight Cancer, TPG Real Estate Closes $6.8B-plus Fund, Mark Cuban Backs Storage Scholars, and More

by | Oct 24, 2022
In this week’s North Texas deal flow, you’ll also find news about Sinclair Digital Services’ $5 million fundraising effort; Energy Spectrum Capital helping to launch a new energy firm; Darling Ingredients’ $1.2 billion acquisition; the Dallas Cowboys’ official accounting firm merging with BKM Sowan Horan; and more.
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DI People: Wingstop, JLL, EWF International, Starla Wines, and More Make Leadership Moves
by | Sep 23, 2022
In this week’s roundup of hires, promotions, and accolades in North Texas, you’ll also find news from CBRE, Merriman Anderson Architects, Bank of Texas, Quality Custom Distribution, EFG Cos., Dillas Quesadillas, BBG, the Catholic Foundation, and others.
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Dallas Startups Deposits.com and DUKE.AI Land Google As New Backer
by | Sep 8, 2022
Two Dallas companies have been awarded $100,000 each by the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund, which aims to help close racial disparities in VC funding given to diverse founders. The startups will also receive Google Cloud credits and hands-on support from Google. They join several other North Texas companies that received earlier grants from the fund. “Across the U.S., there are amazing Black startup founders who are building great companies yet are locked out of access to the funding that's critical to their success,” Google wrote in a blog post.
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SXSW’s 2023 ‘PanelPicker’ Opens For Voting—and DFW Companies Are Vying to Take the Stage
by | Aug 10, 2022
South by Southwest has opened its 2023 "PanelPicker" for crowd-sourced community voting through August 21. You could be among the people who vote to decide which panelists will take the stage next March at SXSW. Out of the thousands of session proposals up for voting, many have Dallas-area ties. We share just 10 of them—including ideas from Mark Cuban, the Dallas Cowboys, Venture Dallas, Dallas Innovation Alliance, CollateralEdge, Kanarys, Zirtue, Masterplan, and more.
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