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On a Mission to ‘Revolutionize and Disrupt the Candy Industry,’ Sow Good Taps Private Capital for Expansion

With Target and Cracker Barrel joining current retailers Hy-Vee, FYE, Big Lots, and Five Below, Irving-based Sow Good's freeze-dried candy sales continue to find sweet success. Next up: A new freeze-dried ice cream line is slated to launch in Q4 2023.
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Steve Dennis
The Last Word: Retail Expert Steve Dennis On the AI-Led Demise of ‘Mediocre Middle’
“The potential shifts made possible by generative AI (and related technologies) do seem fundamentally more game-changing, while illustrating that disruption continues to happen more exponentially than linearly," Steve Dennis said in an email promoting his "Retail Apocalypse" podcast.
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From Innovative Ice Cream to Energizing Kombucha, SKU Dallas Accelerator Aims to Grow the Next Batch of Consumer Brands
by | Aug 4, 2022
SKU Dallas set up shop in North Texas in 2020, partnering with DFW CPG as a local arm of the Austin-based CPG-focused accelerator. It's graduated 12 companies since then, including local plant-based jerky brand All Y’alls Foods, along with Texas-based mmmpanadas and Meli’s Monster Cookies. Now it's announced its third lineup of CPG startups. All female-founded, they range from a Brooklyn sexual wellness and body product company to a California-based Vietnamese cold-brew coffee brand.
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Clockwork Nails It at Target: Now You Can Get a Robot ‘Minicure’ in DFW

by | Jun 7, 2022
The startup's nail painting robot provides a "fast-casual" version of a manicure.
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He Sent Israel’s First Spacecraft to the Moon—Now His Flytrex Drones Will Deliver Burgers to DFW Back Yards
by | Feb 1, 2022
Yariv Bash, co-founder of Israel's SpaceIL, was part of the team behind the 2019 Beresheet moon mission. Now, as co-founder and CEO of Flytrex, he has a new mission: Drone-delivering restaurant meals and groceries to Dallas-Fort Worth back yards.
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The Coupon Industry is Big. And The Coupon Bureau is Changing the Game Using Dallas-based Hedera’s Tech
by | Sep 24, 2020
Although the multi-million dollar coupon processing industry is over a century old, it still faces issues with fraud and lack of transparency. The Coupon Bureau is looking to revolutionize the industry with its new universal digital coupon. Here’s how it works.
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Discovery: Neuro Rehab VR Teams Up With Schools for Robotic Glove; UTD Explores Roots of Chronic Pain

by | Mar 29, 2019
You'll also find out about Caris Life Sciences' data that shows a novel pathway to treating Non-Hodgkins lymphoma in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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Cooklist
Dallas Entrepreneurs Launch Cooking App, Enter Techstars Retail Program With Target
by | Jul 18, 2018
Cooklist, a new app launched this week allowing users to see recipes they can cook with the food in their home, has already caught the attention of the global seed accelerator Techstars, which is aligned with Target.
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renewable
JPMorgan Chase Aims to Use 100 Percent Renewable Energy
by | Aug 1, 2017
In Texas, JPMorgan Chase has 584 branches covering 8 million square feet of space that includes its new 1.2 million-square-foot campus in Plano.
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reviews
Dallas’ iuzeit Working to Become Standard in Product Reviews
by | Jul 31, 2017
The goal is to make iuzeit the Rotten Tomatoes of consumer electronic reviews, taking reviews from experts, consumers, and friends in your social network and aggregating them in one place.
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