IMPACT Awards To Recognize North Texas Startups

IMPACT Awards To Recognize North Texas Startups

The TECH Forth Worth IMPACT Awards will be here before you know it. This is a multiple-day event wherein companies that bring innovative technologies to the marketplace will be recognized. Awards will be presented in three categories: Environment, Community, and Health. Each of these categories will have it’s own day of pitches, with an awards luncheon [...]

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TeXchange Happy Hour This Thursday at Barley House

TeXchange Happy Hour This Thursday at Barley House

Local technology entrepreneur organization TeXchange is hosting a Happy Hour at the Barley House near SMU this Thursday evening at 5:30. The event is open to all and is free for members. So come share a story or two with your brethren. Celebrate that you made it through the holidays in one piece. TeXchange is [...]

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UTD Presents Series For Budding Entrepreneurs

UTD Presents Series For Budding Entrepreneurs

I wanted to give a brief shout-out to The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) at UTD, which is presenting a year-long program titled, The Entrepreneurial Development Series. IIE sponsored the last Startup Weekend Dallas event and awarded the prize of Best Presentation to a group of young lads calling themselves UserStage. For the award, [...]

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VentureDocs Signs Agreement With TECH Fort Worth

VentureDocs Signs Agreement With TECH Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, TX –VentureDocs, which provides cloud-based customized legal documents for both the legal and capital formation of startup companies, has been accepted as an Acceleration Client by TECH Fort Worth. As part of their relationship, TECH Fort Worth has purchased the VentureDocs solution for its other Incubation and Acceleration clients. “When we were introduced to VentureDocs at a [...]

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Lore Devra Levin Presents on Investor Due Diligence at DFW_eStartup Meeting

Lore Levin, serial entrepreneur, executive, and angel investor, presented yesterday at the regional entrepreneur meeting DFW_eStartup. She discussed the key areas that should be included in an information packet when considering outside capital,  the importance of working with experienced professionals, and the differences between capital sources.Lore identified the following factors as critical when an investor [...]

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NFTE Helping Youth Forge Own Paths to Success

NFTE Helping Youth Forge Own Paths to Success

Started in New York City in 1987, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, seeks to make entrepreneurs of inner city impoverished youth. Back then, founder Steve Mariotti got mugged by some inner city school kids, and he decided he wanted to make a positive impression on kids to get them out [...]

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Tech Wildcatters Pitch Day: Dec 2011 Edition

Tech Wildcatters Pitch Day: Dec 2011 Edition

A packed house at the Magnolia theater watched as the graduates of the Tech Wildcatters fall program presented for the final time in front of investors, advisors, and enthusiasts on Tuesday afternoon. When I say packed house, I ain’t kidding. I thought the last pitch day this past May was crowded. But yesterday was even [...]

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Newton Insight Brings Transparency to Busy Logistics Field

Newton Insight Brings Transparency to Busy Logistics Field

Imagine a loved one is in intensive care and needs an immediate organ transplant. Unarguably, a time for serious concern. Now consider that many logistics and transportation companies track these items with an old spreadsheet system, or even on good old-fashioned paper. Now are you scared? That’s the kind of scenario that prompted Gerard Ibarra to find [...]

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Global Startup Battle Results Are In!

Global Startup Battle Results Are In!

As you may remember, the Startup Weekend Dallas winner, Bookedd, was competing with other Startup Weekend winners worldwide to get the most fan votes to be crowned the winner. Over 32,000 votes were cast with an estimated Global Startup Battle (GSB) reach of 2.7 million. The contest ended on Monday night, and the winners were [...]

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GuideHop Launches P2P Marketplace for Activities, Co-Founded by Former Dallas Cowboy

GuideHop Launches P2P Marketplace for Activities, Co-Founded by Former Dallas Cowboy

Give us the 30-second elevator pitch for GuideHop GuideHop is essentially a peer to peer marketplace for tours and guided activities. Anyone with exceptional knowledge of a place or particular hobby can sign up as a guide and post their tours. They are free to set their own price and cancelation policy, accept or decline [...]

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Upcoming DFW Tech Events

Upcoming DFW Tech Events

Some great events are happening in DFW in the next few days. Mark your calendars! Startup Nights – Wed Nov 30th 6pm-2am CoHabitat (2517 Thomas St., Dallas) Open house, coworking, startup meetup, jam session, community gathering TeXchange Holiday Party – Wed Nov 30th 5:30-7:30 House of Blues (The Foundation Room) Dallas Startup Happy Hour – [...]

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Kegs & Code Hackathon + After Party on Dec 9

Kegs & Code Hackathon + After Party on Dec 9

LaunchDFW is happy to announce what will for sure be a fun and exciting event on December 9th. Kegs & Code 2011, hosted and sponsored by Senico Labs, is going to a night to remember. Start the evening off with a few drinks and some networking at 6pm. At 7pm, Senico Labs will present a [...]

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SW Dallas Spawns Bookedd for World Domination

SW Dallas Spawns Bookedd for World Domination

The 5th edition of Startup Weekend Dallas (SWD) culminated Sunday in an announcement by the judges that Bookedd won the grand prize. Bolstered by a massive contingent of University of North Texas and University of Texas at Dallas students and faculty, this was the largest ever showing for SWD, with attendance approaching 100. The 9 [...]

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Rethink Books Raises $2M Series A Financing

Rethink Books Raises $2M Series A Financing

via press release: Dallas, Texas – Rethink Books, a mobile and social digital reading company based in Dallas, TX, has secured a $2.0M Series A financing led by Ambassador Technologies of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The funds will be used to continue to expand their multi-faceted vision for social discovery and eBook interaction and to deepen [...]

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