Dallas-Fort Worth

Texas Launches Small Business Credit Initiative to Expand Access to Funding

A web portal for the Texas Small Business Credit Initiative goes live on Oct. 9. Small business owners, it's time to engage with your lenders to explore this new avenue for financial support.
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Nextdoor Co‑Founder Nirav Tolia on Creating Community, Building Teams, and Learning From Failure
by | Sep 21, 2023
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.
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Bridging the Tech Talent Gap: A Deep Dive into the North Texas Tech Scene
by | Sep 12, 2023
Amid a booming tech surge, U.S. companies grapple with a pressing issue: a tight pool of tech talents. Even an innovation powerhouse like Dallas-Fort Worth can't escape the crunch. Here's how companies can navigate to ensure continued growth.
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From left: Ezi Negus, Okigwe Creations; Greer Christian, PureNRG Cycle; Awah Chai, Offworld Coffee; Kimberly Matthews, Holy Rollie Pastry Shop; and moderator Tarsha Hearns, The DEC Network. [Photo: The DEC Network]
Meet Four North Texas Entrepreneurs Who Navigated to Success With SBA’s Community Pilot Program
by | Aug 9, 2023
At the recent Entrepreneur Showcase in Dallas, four emerging startups were spotlighted alongside Biden Cabinet Member Isabella Casillas Guzman, who leads the Small Business Administration, and Mark Madrid, the driving force behind SBA's Office of Entrepreneurial Development. “I feel like I’ve just been to a TED talk with these entrepreneurs' words of wisdom,” Madrid said at the event powered by Dallas College and The DEC Network.
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First Look: Atlanta-based Shared Workspace Provider Roam Opens Grandscape Location

by | Apr 11, 2023
Roam in Grandscape is the company's eighth location and the first outside the Atlanta metropolitan area, the company said. The Colony location—Roam’s largest workplace—offers 17 luxury meeting spaces and 70 private offices complemented by a member-only shared workspace. Take a look at how Roam is shaking up how work gets done.
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New Report Puts DFW Near Top Of Nation’s Coworking Markets
by | Mar 16, 2023

Coworking in Dallas-Fort Worth is alive and well and ranking near the top of the list of markets with the most coworking spaces.

That’s according to a recently released state of the coworking industry report from CoworkingCafe, which leveraged the most recent proprietary data (March) to break down the coworking space availability in the 25 largest markets, as well as their size and distribution....

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16 Biotech Companies in Dallas-Fort Worth ‘Putting the Tech in Bio’ to Drive Breakthroughs

Dallas-Fort Worth is well known for its tech expertise. Now it being recognized as the place where technology meets life science—a convergence that’s driving rapid growth in the biotech ecosystem....

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Report: Dallas-Fort Worth Has One of the Top 5 Fastest-Growing Economies in the U.S.
by | Oct 19, 2022
“More intense innovative activity leads to higher rates of economic progress," researchers for an international conference noted last year. That's certainly true of Dallas-Fort Worth, which had the No. 5 fastest-growing economy of any U.S. metro this year, according to the American Growth Project. DFW and the other top four metros on the list share a key distinction: They're all hubs for tech and innovation. The report says DFW's attractiveness helps bolster its existing “diversity and strength across industries,” while noting that health care is a “major driver of economic growth” in the region.
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Aussie-Based Spot Parking Kicks Tires For DFW Business Opportunities

by | Jul 27, 2021
Spot Parking, which creates a digital twin of parking spaces in cities, universities, and more, is looking to set up operations in Dallas-Fort Worth to back its strategy for entering the U.S. market.
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Here Are the Top 25 Companies to Work For in Dallas-Fort Worth, According to LinkedIn
by | Jul 27, 2021
LinkedIn analyzed 10 emerging U.S. cities it deems best at attracting a growing number of job seekers. Topping the local list in order: AT&T, Lockheed Martin, and American Airlines.
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Symposium Highlights North Texas’ Black Tech Talent, Potential
by | May 11, 2021
Nonprofit BUiLT is hosting the event to highlight the success and possibilities of Black tech talent in the region. “There is no talent pipeline problem,” says Peter Beasley, co-founder of the Blacks United in Leading Technology International. “Black tech talent is widely available, especially in North Texas.”
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Riding the Funding Wave: These DFW Startups Got the Money in 2020

Here are 32 North Texas startups that successfully pulled in capital to back their ventures. Fitting the digital demands of a global pandemic, it's a tech-heavy group, with liberal doses of biotech and healthcare-related firms.
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Dallas Innovates 2021 Thought Leaders: Deloitte
by | Jan 25, 2021
As Deloitte's Kevin Knowles puts it, "Organizations face a choice between returning to a post-COVID world that is simply an enhanced version of yesterday OR building one that is a sustainable version of tomorrow. The risk is more than that of falling behind—it’s the possibility of never catching up at all."
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Meet the Future 50: Dallas-Fort Worth Innovators and Disruptors You Need to Know in 2021
These standouts—entrepreneurs, leaders, inventors, creatives, and educators—are disrupting industries, solving challenges, and making Dallas-Fort Worth (and beyond) a better place in a year like no other.
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Bell Textron to Open 600-Employee Commercial Business Center at Former American Airlines HQ
by | Dec 1, 2020
The Fort Worth-based Textron Inc. company is expanding its footprint to accommodate for growing operations throughout Dallas-Fort Worth.
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