The founder and CEO of the INNW Institute helps leaders hone their pitches when approaching venture capitalists and other investors
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Dallas Startup Week
Wen Zhang, founder and CEO of the INNW Institute, helps leaders hone their pitches when approaching venture capitalists and other investors
DSW Dispatches: Startup Mentor Helps Founders Craft Their Pitch
by Kevin Cummings | Aug 9, 2022
“Remember, we're just one pitch away from changing the world,” says Wen Zhang. “It's our job as a founder, as a co-founder to show people the world that we are seeing.”
The founder and CEO of the INNW Institute helps leaders hone their pitches when approaching venture capitalists and other investors
The founder and CEO of the INNW Institute helps leaders hone their pitches when approaching venture capitalists and other investors
by Kevin Cummings |
Aug 9, 2022
“Opioids are diabolical, because they actually change the structure and function of your brain; they change the way your reward system works,” said Daniel Powell, CEO at Spark Biomedical.
Meet Powell and six other startup leaders.
Meet Powell and six other startup leaders.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Aug 8, 2022
Dallas Startup Week—The DEC Network’s annual flagship event, sponsored by Capital One—had its kickoff party Sunday at The Star in Frisco. You'll find 100+ events and sessions running Monday through Thursday, August 8-11, both online and in person at SMU’s Cox School of Business.
Here you'll find Dallas Innovates' handy, one-sheet guide to each day of DSW.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Aug 2, 2022
Dallas Startup Week is only days away. In addition to three big summits, the DEC Network's flagship week-long event will offer sessions on 21 different "tracks." From social impact to startup funding to esports and emerging tech, here's a look at what the week holds in store.
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The "fighters" lineup for the 2022 Digital Fight Club during Dallas Startup Week. [Photos: Digital Fight Club]
Digital Fight Club Is Coming Back IRL to the Granada for Dallas Startup Week
by David Seeley | Jul 22, 2022
A night of tech founder battles, raucous crowd roars, and BS-calling corporate refs will hit the Granada Theater on August 11. That's when Digital Fight Club returns to its in-person, party-fueled finest during Dallas Startup Week 2022. Ten top local tech leaders will go 1-on-1, fighting with their wits on five disruptive tech topics.
"We plan on breaking molds again," says Michael Pratt, the event's founder and host.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Jul 20, 2022
The Disrupt Dallas summit will highlight "champions who are disrupting the entrepreneurial ecosystem and talent pipeline,” says The DEC Network.
The summit on August 8—part of Dallas Startup Week's multi-day event—offers education and programming from local entrepreneurs of color on how to help support and grow a business.
Dear Fathers, a media platform for Black fatherhood, was co-founded by Jesse Alex and Lamar Johnson Jr., who "turned their pain of not having real father experiences growing up" into a positive mission. [Image: Dear Fathers]
Dear Fathers is a platform “dedicated to telling stories of black fathers from all angles while also empowering our community with tangible resources that inspire, heal, and strengthen the Black man.”
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 13, 2022
The Women's Innovation Summit during Dallas Startup Week celebrates women who transform their ideas and ambitions into a reality.
The summit, powered by Toyota Financial Services, features a dynamic group of leading visionaries to give all women in business greater insights and knowledge into the trends and possibilities of the future. The goal? To set women leaders up for success, says Toyota's Stacey Gee-Miller. Here's what you can look forward to on August 10.
The summit, powered by Toyota Financial Services, features a dynamic group of leading visionaries to give all women in business greater insights and knowledge into the trends and possibilities of the future. The goal? To set women leaders up for success, says Toyota's Stacey Gee-Miller. Here's what you can look forward to on August 10.
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State of Entrepreneurship 2022: More Than $2 Billion Invested in North Texas Entrepreneurs Last Year
by Kevin Cummings |
Mar 14, 2022
It's the second year in a row to surpass $1 billion, said Trey Bowles at the Dallas Entrepreneur Center's annual State of Entrepreneurship event.
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Dallas Mayor Eric johnson [Photo: City of Dallas]
Mayor Johnson Partners With The DEC on a New Startup Package for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs
by Alex Edwards | Aug 4, 2021
Local entrepreneurs and small business owners can apply now to receive discounted and free services—from Amazon, IBM, Google, Dell, Microsoft, and more—to go toward cloud services, software, tech consulting, training and education, inbound marketing, networking, events, and accelerators.
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by Bella Pinera |
Aug 3, 2021
Panna Sharma has had a hand in four IPOs. The latest was finalized during the middle of COVID for his clinical stage biopharmaceutical oncology firm, Lantern Pharma. Now, he shares the phases to transforming a young private company into the next public success story.
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by The DEC Network |
Jul 15, 2021
The Women of Innovation Summit will take place on Aug. 4 at Southern Methodist University’s McFarlin Auditorium during Dallas Startup Week, powered by Capital One. Women are encouraged to bring their whole work teams and even friends to make the most of a day of growth and development.
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by Quincy Preston |
May 7, 2021
The hybrid event in August will take place in person at SMU and virtually. The seventh annual Dallas Startup Week powered by Capital One is Dallas-Fort Worth's largest event focused on driving entrepreneurial success, economic impact, and innovation in the region.
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Dallas Founders Share How They Quit Their Jobs and Found Purpose
by Sophia Gonzalez | Sep 10, 2020
The founders of Project Mockingbird, Grit by Brit, and Break Bread, Break Borders were virtually brought together to share their stories of how their companies came to be.
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by Alex Edwards |
Sep 10, 2020
"Whether you're starting your own business, you're part of a startup, or you're raising a round of funding, you have to have the blood, sweat, and tears just like I did training for the Olympics," Liukin says. "That's how you have to feel every single day."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 8, 2020
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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by Riley Farrell |
Sep 8, 2020
James Rabuck and Alexander Goldberg explained how the Texas Military Department Joint Innovation Unit, aka the TMDx, brings together the military and private sectors to bridge the gap from brainstorming to implementation for defense advancement during a Dallas Startup Week discussion.
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