Nextdoor Co-Founder and Former CEO Tolia Nirav, right, talks with Capital One’s Kamlesh Talreja at Dallas Startup Week 2023. [Photo: Dallas Startup Week]
During Dallas Startup Week, the entrepreneur and executive—a Highland Park resident who Yahoo employee No. 84 before founding multiple tech companies—said "successes will spawn more successes" in the North Texas startup ecosystem.
A manmade island in Florida known as the "Billionaire Bunker" is home to numerous billionaires and celebrities, including Tom Brady, Jeff Bezos, Ivanka Trump, and Julio Iglesias. Along with their exclusive digs and amenities, the island's residents are now getting services from North Texas-based concierge health provider CourMed.
"Everyone by now has seen the video of Jeff Bezos just repeatedly saying 'customer' and his customer obsession is a well known part of Amazon lore," Evans wrote today in a LinkedIn post. "But what amazes me is how few companies think about customer success as a core function and just something 'we have to do once we get bigger,'" he adds.
Drawing from his own powerful lesson after losing a multimillion-dollar deal, TransPharMed CEO Kirk Barnes helps founders and leaders to be primed and ready to connect when opportunity knocks. Will Magruder, VP of partnerships at MassChallenge, lends his expertise to crafting a "handshake pitch" in nine words or less. Here's how.
Plus, the votes are in. MassChallenge announced its Handshake Pitch Winners at Pegasus Park: “We're the Tesla of jet skis,” “Net-zero concrete by 2050 by 2022," "We personalize treatment down to your genes," and more.
Forefront Living's Presbyterian Village North senior living community in North Dallas will be home to a new Bezos Academy in Fall 2022. The tuition-free, Montessori-inspired Bezos Academy will be the first in Texas—and second in the nation—to be located in a senior living community. "We believe in the power of generations interacting," says Tim Mallad, CEO of Forefront Living.
Created by Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos, the Bezos Academy has built a network of eight tuition-free preschools in underserved communities in Washington state. Now the first two Bezos Academies outside Washington are coming to Dallas College campuses in Oak Cliff and Lancaster.
Admissions will be open to families earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level with children ages 3 or 4.
Addison-based Heads Up Technologies, which makes technology for aircraft cabins, agreed to be acquired by Thornton, Colorado-based Signia Aerospace for an undisclosed amount.
Heads Up, founded in 1985 and owned by private equity firm JLL Partners, makes a variety of aircraft cabin systems....
When Texas Woman’s University publicly launched its first-ever major fundraising campaign in September 2023, the goal was ambitious: raise $125 million by the Denton school’s 125th anniversary in 2026.
With less than two months remaining in the fundraising effort, the university isn’t just on track to meet that milestone — it’s blown past it....
Austin energy startup Base Power is continuing its expansion in North Texas.
In August 2025, the company opened an office and warehouse in Grapevine with around 10 full-time employees. Today, it has more than 100 employees and more than 50% of its customer base in Dallas-Fort Worth....
Addison-based Heads Up Technologies, which makes technology for aircraft cabins, agreed to be acquired by Thornton, Colorado-based Signia Aerospace for an undisclosed amount.
Heads Up, founded in 1985 and owned by private equity firm JLL Partners, makes a variety of aircraft cabin systems....
When Texas Woman’s University publicly launched its first-ever major fundraising campaign in September 2023, the goal was ambitious: raise $125 million by the Denton school’s 125th anniversary in 2026.
With less than two months remaining in the fundraising effort, the university isn’t just on track to meet that milestone — it’s blown past it....
Austin energy startup Base Power is continuing its expansion in North Texas.
In August 2025, the company opened an office and warehouse in Grapevine with around 10 full-time employees. Today, it has more than 100 employees and more than 50% of its customer base in Dallas-Fort Worth....