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As the 1MC community, we listen and provide feedback to two new companies every Wednesday morning. Companies get six minutes to give a quick pitch followed by a 20-minute Q&A with the audience.
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As the 1MC community, we listen and provide feedback to two new companies every Wednesday morning. Companies get six minutes to give a quick pitch followed by a 20-minute Q&A with the audience.
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As the 1MC community, we listen and provide feedback to two new companies every Wednesday morning. Companies get six minutes to give a quick pitch followed by a 20-minute Q&A with the audience.
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As the 1MC community, we listen and provide feedback to two new companies every Wednesday morning. Companies get six minutes to give a quick pitch followed by a 20-minute Q&A with the audience.
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A monthly event on the 4th Wednesday that brings entrepreneurs and the Irving community together over coffee and conversations.
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A weekly event that brings together entrepreneurs and the NE Tarrant County community over coffee and conversation.
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The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses initiative will offer: Business and Management Education, Access to Capital, Business Support Services
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The Apple Corps of Dallas (ACD) is the oldest Apple Computer User Group still in operation, established in January of 1978. Our members are primarily from the Dallas and Fort Worth metroplex area. Our aim is to provide you with the latest information on your computer, to offer help in solving problems, to present forums for discussion, and to provide a protected resource of files for your downloading pleasure.
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bigBANG! is Dallas' longest-running event for social innovation, focused on driving deeper conversations and innovative solutions for positive change in our city.
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Big Design is a way of thinking, not just an event. It's looking at bigger pictures and sharing them so we all grow. Experience, wisdom, and creativity solve problems. All of that is on full display at Big Design. Because of our hyper-accelerated work lives, we miss opportunities to learn from each other. Some of us work from home, some are the only creative in a room full of engineers, and others are so busy, we can't take time to look around. That's why Big Design is here.
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Join us to discuss the latest in technology, startups, digital lifestyle and business. This group is built around community, jobs and fostering relationships across a variety of disciplines.
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bionorthTX was created to accelerate the growth of the diverse and balanced life science ecosystem in North Texas. This spans the value chain of health care, life sciences, research, the vendor community, and talent and capital resources. Companies can connect with industry leaders, ground-breaking technologies, the investment community, nationally-ranked colleges and universities, a wealth of consultants, a varied population for clinical research and an experienced pool of scientists, technicians, and resources.
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Biz Owners Ed is a nonprofit, tax-exempt (under Section 501(c)(3)) entrepreneurial program and community for business owners seeking a burst of knowledge, advice, and tools to take the next exponential leap forward in their businesses. Our mentoring team and guest speakers help successful entrepreneurs accelerate the growth of their business.
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Blacks in Technology Dallas/Ft. Worth is the official DFW chapter of the national organization, Blacks in Technology, founded by Greg Greenlee in 2009. Our mission is to increase the representation of Black women and men in technology and provide a community of networking, continuing education, and support for Black technology professionals.
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Welcome! Blacks United in Leading Technology - North Texas is the official, chartered chapter for North Texas of the dynamic, growing, vibrant Blacks United in Leading Technology International non-profit corporation
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Bunker Labs – a 501(c)(3) non-profit – is a national network of veteran entrepreneurs dedicated to helping new veteran entrepreneurs start their own business. We are committed to seeing that every entrepreneur in the veteran community has the network, tools, and resources they need to start their own business.
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Cause Studio is now a virtual education platform that delivers content to social innovators no matter where they are.
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CodeLaunch is an annual seed accelerator for people and groups with ideas for “apps” who are seeking seed funding. The CodeLaunch Pitch Day is the culmination of the competition and a showcasing of the best competitors. If you have an idea for an app and nothing more, you still are qualified to apply.
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Code Collective exposes the world to coding by bringing in guest speakers and putting on STEM programs in collaboration with the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and KIPP-DFW charter schools.
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Coding Dojo is the boot camp education done right. Unlike most boot camps, we don’t just teach you how to code to get a job. Our industry–leading curriculum accelerates you into an entirely new career in the tech–industry, and becoming a developer is only one of many exciting paths to take.
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As a free online matchmaking platform, CoFoundersLab Matchup Dallas is an in-person event complemented with an online platform to bring together entrepreneurs looking for co-founders with those people looking to join someone else's startup as a core team member.
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Entrepreneurs For North Texas is a program of Communities Foundation of Texas that serves the North Texas business community. Established in the summer of 2000, EFNT’s network of more than 100 member companies includes early stage, small and mid-size businesses, private equity investors, venture capitalists, and a wide range of professional service providers who all have a commitment to give back to the communities in which they live and work. EFNT assists our member companies in harnessing the power of their corporate assets through philanthropy and community programs in order to serve social needs while meeting corporate objectives.
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Creative Mornings Dallas is here to FEED you. Not just free breakfast, but feed your creative imagination, your hunger for like-minded individuals and your taste for learning something new. Some come on down, bring friends, family, and colleagues – everyone is welcome! #CMDFW
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News, Information, and Insights on Dallas-Fort Worth Business
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Broadening Urban Investment to Leverage Dallas (B.U.I.L.D.) helps you find the resources you need to grow your startup, small business or nonprofit venture.
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SPARK is the community aspect of Freelancers Union and the local hub for freelancers to connect with one another and help cultivate a freelancer community in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. We host monthly meetings on the first Wednesday of every month for freelancers to discuss various topics such as starting a freelance business, growing a current freelance business, pricing, taxes, legal stuff, and more.
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Dallas Hackers Association
GroupsWho attends DHA? We are a diverse group of individuals who share the passion of curiosity. We like to learn; we like to teach; we like to listen; we like to talk. DHA started as loose group of hackers and security professionals around Dallas, but it has expanded into many other areas. There’s still a large contingency of security/privacy wonks, but we also have developers, entrepreneurs, managers, students, retirees, a few recruiters, and occasionally a Fed or two ;-)
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As the online source for what’s new, next, and reimagined in the North Texas innovation ecosystem, Dallas Innovates shares the stories of our creativity, commerce, and collaboration. With media coverage by local journalists, commentary and opinion from community voices, and profiles of innovative individuals and companies, it’s a focal point bringing attention to the region as a hub for innovation.
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The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a coalition of stakeholders from the City of Dallas, corporations, Civic and NGO organizations, academia and private individuals who are invested in Dallas’ continued evolution as a forward‐thinking, innovative, ‘smart’ global city. Our working definition of a Smart City is a city where social and technological infrastructures and solutions facilitate and accelerate sustainable economic growth, resource efficiency, and importantly, improves the quality of life in the city for its citizens. Operating from a foundational vision that smart cities are about people and not just technology, DIA is focused on the end user – building a critical mass of the most highly-engaged citizens in the country.
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Dallas Millenial Club
GroupsAs a community with a 1000 year vision, DMC provides a lasting experience; sparking game-changing relationships and opportunities to serve, develop and impact. We constantly aim to enrich the communities in which we live and work, through both professionalism and service.
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The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average of 271,900 daily subscribers
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Dallas New Tech is a monthly showcase event for new and exciting companies/technologies. Every month, the community gets together to socialize and check out the hottest developments in tech from local companies around Dallas-Fort Worth.
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A weekly moderated chat about the latest in technology, startups, digital lifestyle and business. It's a simple event format built around community, jobs, and fostering relationships across a variety of disciplines.
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The Dallas Ruby Brigade has been around since early 2006. We meet every Tuesday evening to present, hack, teach, or learn about the Ruby programming language.
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We are engaged community leaders committed to improving lives and maximizing social impact through the thoughtful application of our collective resources and expertise. SVP cultivates effective philanthropists, strengthens nonprofits, and invests in innovative solutions – building powerful relationships to tackle our community’s social challenges.
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Our monthly open mic night! Present your current projects to the group, get feedback, find collaborators, or just be a fly on the wall. Projects can be works in progress or recently completed ones. Bring a flash drive with your game, and show us what you've been working on (you can bring a laptop with your game on it instead, but flash drives are preferred). Open to professionals, hobbyists, students, or just those interested in what's being made around here.
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Whether you're just thinking about dipping your toe into entrepreneurial waters, or are a seasoned startup white-water rafter, Digest helps by connecting you with your startup community through events and top-notch content.
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A once-a-month startup-focused happy hour for the North Texas area.
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Startup Week is a free, five-day celebration of our community that builds momentum and opportunity around entrepreneurship. We're led by local entrepreneurs and hosted in amazing spaces all over town.
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Meetups and other events for developers, technologists, and other geeks in the DFW area.
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The Dallas User Experience Group is the local chapter of UXPA International. This group serves the needs of designers in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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DevMountain is an industry-leading coding school that began in the heart of the Wasatch Mountains. Founded by fellow coders, DevMountain's expert faculty are passionate about sharing their craft and empowering the next wave of programmers, entrepreneurs and designers.
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ATW is a dynamic non-profit organization that supports women and men who share the common interests of empowering women in technology, increasing the number of women in executive roles and encouraging women and girls to enter technology fields.
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The community is comprised of anyone with an interest in food and beverage CPG. Our attendees include early-stage to mature brands, product and service suppliers (food processors; ingredient suppliers; sales/marketing firms; brokers; equipment financing firms; and other industry professionals), and investors (angels, venture capitalists, private equity firms, and corporate venture arms).
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DFW Data Slack Channel
GroupsSlack channel for DFW data visualization community.
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DFW Devs is a place for developers who live and work in and around Dallas and Fort Worth to share, converse, organize and get to know each other.
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DFW Legal Hackers meets monthly to share ideas, explore innovations in legal+tech and new approaches of working with clients and the community as well as each other to develop creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues at the intersection of law and technology. Through social/networking activities, hackathons, and educational workshops, we will identify ways of using technology to improve law, legal practice, and policy, as well as service to the community.
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Slack channel for DFW startup community.
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Ten of the sharpest wits in Dallas will spar in five "fights" on the hotbed, undecided topics in digital technology today. Fight Club is powered by Accenture Digital. Accenture Managing Director Andrew Hopkins, will once again lead a panel of five referees. The audience and refs will judge the fights with our own Fight Club App.
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Our full-time, 10-16 weeks data science and cybersecurity training experience hones, expands, and contextualizes the skills brought in by our competitive student cohorts. Incorporating traditional in-class instruction in theory and technique, data science students use real data to build a four-project portfolio to present to potential employers. Both data science and cybersecurity students have access to full career support throughout and after the boot camp.
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This three-day free event is held in April to celebrate progress, hope, and innovation and is the largest event in the world of its kind. EARTHx brings together environmental organizations, businesses, academic institutions, government agencies, speakers, interactive programming, and subject matter experts along with live music and sustainable beer, and food pavilions. EARTHx creates a fun and engaging atmosphere for thought and experiential learning while encouraging attendees to be the change they wish to see in the world.
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Transformational Technology for a Climate-Smart Inclusive Economy
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The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a global, peer-to-peer network of more than 12,000+ influential business owners with 167 chapters in 52 countries. Founded in 1987, EO is the catalyst that enables leading entrepreneurs to learn and grow, leading to greater success in business and beyond.
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EY is seeking entrepreneurs whose boldness drives them to do things differently and change our world in the most unexpected ways. If you are a successful entrepreneur or have been inspired by an enterprising leader, we invite you to submit a nomination to the Entrepreneur Of The Year
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The FORT WORTH BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION is designed to encourage small business owners to manage and operate their business according to a written plan; thus, having a positive impact on their bottom line as well as strengthening their ability to generate revenue and create jobs, all of which have a positive impact on our economy as a whole.
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The Fort Worth Star was founded in 1906 and merged with the Fort Worth Telegram in 1909 to become the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The newspaper bears a rich and colorful legacy tied to the Old West. Its founding publisher, Amon G. Carter Sr., was a renowned booster of Fort Worth and West Texas. In fact, the newspaper was known by a phrase that still resides on its masthead: “Where the West Begins.”
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Startup Weekend is a great place for entrepreneurs to connect with developers, designers, coders and other business minded people to build companies in the course of a weekend. The event begins with 1 minute pitches of an idea and then all of the participants choose between which of 8-12 different ideas they want to work on throughout the weekend. On Saturday and Sunday each team gets as much work done on their idea as they can including building a brand, developing customers, designing a website and bringing an idea to life. On Sunday evening, each team will present their startup to a panel of local judges who will give them feedback on their ideas and select the winning teams from the weekend. Joining a Startup Weekend is the best way to get hands on experience about what starting a company is really like.
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Founders Live is a global venue that gives modern entrepreneurs the opportunity to earn recognition, taste fame, connect with other entrepreneurs, and truly become rock stars.
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General Assembly fosters an elite professional community of individuals and companies through education and strategic career connections.
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HackDFW's first party events are the largest hackathons in Texas, with over 1,000 attendees at each event. They are a tech enthusiast's playground, allowing students and professionals to meet, form an idea, and execute it within 24 hours. Our events are forces for good in the community, bringing together many diverse groups for a weekend of fun, innovation, and learning.
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Health 2.0 is a group of Dallas innovators who meet regularly with the mission to cultivate and propel health and technology within our community.
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Our companies have been hard at work perfecting their pitches and continuing to grow their businesses since joining our accelerator. Pitch Day is a showcase for them to show how far they've come.
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Provides exposure to the world of computer science, robotics, and more to children, through fun and interactive camp programs.
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We provide a public forum where you, and anyone else, can share important ideas in front of a live audience. Presenters create a five-minute talk, with an accompanying deck of 20 slides which advance automatically every 15 seconds. It is a fast-paced, fun, and informative evening that reaches a broad, receptive audience in a very unique way.
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In one focused day, InnoTech Dallas creates an environment where education, innovation, peer-to-peer networking and the latest technology and business solutions are all available specifically for IT professionals.
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We are a team of game developers from all over the world, that have many years of experience in creating games for consoles and for PC, as well as, more recently mobile. From adventure titles to shooters, strategy to casual, collectively we have covered the entire gaming space, and hope that will continue over the next several years. Our goal with this blog is to share our knowledge and help people to either get started with game development for the first time or stay abreast with the latest technologies.
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The Jane and Pat Bolin Innovation Forum brings transformational thought leaders to TCU to share their innovative insights. Free to the public, the forum takes place each spring in conjunction with the Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures® Competition.
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Join us for an event inspired by the TV show Shark Tank, where our four finalists will pitch creative solutions to critical social issues before judges and a live audience in the Four Day Weekend improvisational group's theater. Judges will listen and decide who will get seed money of $10,000 or more from United Way of Tarrant County’s KERNEL program designed to foster social innovation within the community.
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United Way of Tarrant County’s new social innovation fund has the primary purpose of making significant changes in key community issues by working with a cross-sector of people, organizations, non-profits, for-profits and entrepreneurs to solve problems!
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Ladies that UX Dallas Chapter is a monthly meet up that creates a welcoming, transparent community of women that work in UX, who positively promote and teach each other.
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We’re excited to bring together the Latinas in tech in Dallas Fort Worth! We invite you to join our chapter and partake in our events, discussions and networking activities while also creating meaningful relationships and supporting and lifting each other up!
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The Medical Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is the catalyst for a sustainable bio and life sciences ecosystem that connects globally-competitive, scale-up companies to talent, facilities and funding to improve the quality of patient care. Every day we commit to thoughtful planning, programming and networking that provides the resources and support for early stage companies to address the critical needs related to the translation of research.
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The North Texas Innovation Alliance’s mission is to create the most connected, smart, and resilient region in the country.
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NTX Inno is part of American Inno, a growing network of local innovation with properties in fourteen markets. Covering, catalyzing and connecting the region’s ecosystem, producing digital media, events and intelligence about the entrepreneurs, executives, startups, businesses, trends and topics that are the shaping the present and future of North Texas’ economy.
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Per Scholas was founded more than 20 years ago with a mission to open doors to transformative technology careers for individuals from often overlooked communities. We accomplish this mission today by creating opportunity, closing the skills divide, and achieving diversity.
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Pitch Competitions Around the World
Pitch DaysList of startup competitions, both nationally and internationally, maintained by Getpoindexter.com
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ProjectUX is the new show where User Experience experts - “UXperts” - help startups improve their products. We send startups through a heuristic review and a round of usability testing as they learn how to improve their user experience.
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Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical and professional aspects of new media endeavors in the Dallas area.
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Pitch Day marks the highlight of REVTECH Accelerator for the five technology companies who have completed the 14-week REVTECH program. At Pitch Day, founders from the year's class will share their innovative visions – presenting investment and product pitches – with the industry's top investors, retailers and industry champions, media representatives, and the greater Dallas entrepreneurial community
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At Rising Tide Initiative, we believe that entrepreneurs pave the path to greater social and economic prosperity within our community. We seek to support start-up entrepreneurs in the early stages of their business ventures and to partner with them in their world-changing work.
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SaaStock Local is SaaStock's initiative to launch chapter of regular events that are independently organized by carefully selected community builders and influencers in SaaS. We help them facilitate the space to share challenges and best practices at our local level, while networking and creating new opportunities.
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The Dallas Metropolitan SBDC has access to a wide range of information for business success. Let us give you that extra advantage needed in today’s competitive business environment. The Dallas Metropolitan SBDC can provide businesses with information concerning contracting with government, international trade, intellectual property protection, and technology transfer.
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SCORE Volunteers are real-world professionals with time-tested knowledge who donate thousands of hours to help small business succeed. Mentors are experts in such areas as accounting, finance, marketing, management, and business plan preparation. Dallas SCORE provides no-cost, confidential business counseling tailored to meet the needs of your business. SCORE also offers Workshops and Seminars for a modest fee, for both start-up entrepreneurs and existing businesses looking for a fresh perspective and renewed focus for their business.
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Sharks in Heels Inc. is a fun and informative social networking organization geared towards inspiring, connecting, and empowering women entrepreneurs or “Sharkettes” with the tools needed for success.
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Big iDeas supports the incubation of ideas and development of entrepreneurial enterprises by SMU undergraduates. The Pitch Contest and Business Plan Competition are annual events for undergraduates to pitch creative or innovative ideas that provide value to society. Ideas can be new products as well as ones that solve a problem or improve an existing service. Big iDeas are those ideas that are viable and bring positive impact to others.
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In 1990, the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship assumed responsibility for operating the Southwest Venture Forum, which had been founded by a local venture capital firm in 1984. The non-profit forum is a bimonthly breakfast meeting where entrepreneurs looking to start or expand their businesses meet with venture investors and the professional community to solicit financing and obtain advice.
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Sparkyard's mission is to cultivate a connected and vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Fort Worth area through a comprehensive platform that connects entrepreneurs and business owners to the resources they need to launch and scale their companies.
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Come see 5 of the hottest startups in Dallas show us their magic and then sit back and enjoy some magic of a different kind. Each startup will have 2 minutes to impress us and then the improv troupe of DCH will put on quite a show. Trust us, your investment pitches will seem like a cakewalk in comparison!
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Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs.
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Join us and supporters of local innovation, economic development, and entrepreneurs as we celebrate four local startups that are impacting our world at the Ninth Annual TECH Fort Worth Impact Awards
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Tech in Motion is broad by design, the goal of this group is to be interactive and allow technology enthusiasts to learn from other professionals, have questions answered in real-time, discover new tech, and hear stories that inspire. This group is a place for technology professionals who wouldn’t normally cross paths to meet, collaborate, and learn about what their peers are doing across the city.
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TECH Nest is a free weekly interactive, entrepreneurial session designed for entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other. It’s open to all entrepreneurs in the startup ecosystem. The meetup is held from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. every Tuesday at TechFW.
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Tech Talent South (TTS) is a Charlotte-based coding bootcamp dedicated to fostering talent in technology throughout the southeast United States and aid the region in evolving its high-tech hubs. Campuses are in the heart of each of their respective tech communities and provide students with amazing opportunities to make connections in the local tech scenes.
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Tech Titans includes a diverse group of technology leaders from start-ups to fortune 500 companies from North Texas who collaborate, share and inspire creative thinking that fuels tomorrow’s innovations. As part of its goals, Tech Titans is active in: Cultivating a technology community of companies, entrepreneurs, investors, and students. Growing future tech leaders with its talent and workforce development initiative. Advocating technology's advancement in governmental arenas . Connecting people and inspiring innovative ideas through its special interest forums and annual Awards Gala.
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The Tech Titans Awards Gala, from Radius innovation and development, a Jabil company, recognizes the elite in North Texas technology – individuals currently transforming the high-tech industry and giving companies that competitive edge, as well as companies leading the way. The Tech Titans Awards Gala showcases the innovators, adopters and executors impacting the technology industry for the greater good.
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Tech Titans is a North Texas technology association that represents more than 250,000 employees through its 300 member partnerships. It collaborates with a wide range of companies from startups to Fortune 500s. Tech Titans Venture Forum was meant to bridge conversations between investors and startups, which Tech Titans hopes will lead to Series A or B, multimillion-dollar investments down the road.
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On Pitch Day, join investors, entrepreneurs, business leaders and media from all over the nation as they watch what happens when you give the next hottest startup 12 weeks of intensive mentoring and world-class resources.
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TEDxSMU brings together ideas and interesting people from around the world and around the corner to the SMU and Dallas communities. Although we are licensed by TED, we are independently organized. Check out what we’ve got coming up and TEDxTalks from past events.
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TEDxTCU strives to invigorate the TCU community through student leadership and TCU-based speakers sharing ideas worth spreading. The TEDx program is designed to give communities the opportunity to create dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level.
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Texas Inventors is a group of inventors that meets monthly in the Mirabelle Davis Library in the Dallas suburb of Plano. Our membership includes people at every stage of the inventive process who are willing to share their knowledge, experience, contacts and encouragement to fellow inventors.
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Texas Tech Pulse is focused on providing news and information about deal flow, high tech investment, and high tech companies in Texas. Our focus is on covering high technology news from Texas. Our coverage includes venture funding, interviews, business news, new products, and other key information on companies in the area, with an exclusive focus on the Texas region. Our events calendar and other website resources are intended to help provide a resource to high-tech entrepreneurs, investors, and employees.
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To actively grow the base of research capacity and technology commercialization in North Texas by engaging industry, philanthropic, university, and state support to implement programs that increase research at our local institutions of higher education and create economic benefit for the region.
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Weekly startup newsletter for Texas startup news, opinions and events.
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TeXchange Dallas connects Dallas-Fort Worth's technology community; bringing together founders, investors, technology executives, business leaders, educators, and supporting service providers at every stage of building and growing successful ventures. We target technology executives who build or run maturing startups; those which are either currently or past raising their Series A funding rounds.
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Dallas B.R.A.I.N. is a business resources and information network.
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The Dallas-Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association’s goal is to promote search engine marketing and increased return on investment for companies and their websites through best practices. We accomplish this through networking, education, and promotion of search engine marketing. Our members are highly skilled in the areas of copywriting, web hosting, web design, web analytics, internet application development, affiliate program development and strategy, social media, search engine optimization, PPC campaigns, as well as emerging media.
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The Fort Worth Life Sciences Coalition is a non-profit, non-member, grassroots organization founded in 2002 to promote all aspects of the Life Sciences in North Texas, with an emphasis on Fort Worth.
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The Pitch is a fast-paced evening of live pitches from some of our community's best social entrepreneurs. Launched in 2013, United Way’s Social Innovation Accelerator is a mentor-driven social innovation fund and impact accelerator program that invests money and resources in promising social ventures focused on solutions.
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The Technology Ball encompasses a unique series of networking gatherings that brings the technology community together. Proceeds from Technology Ball support initiatives to create future technology leaders through STEM partnerships in the social sector. Leading CIOs, CTOs, and VPs of IT serve as honored IT Executive Hosts, as they mingle with senior-level representatives from sponsoring corporations, to generate new business relationships and strengthen existing ones.
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Thinkful is a career accelerator that helps people build high-growth careers in data science, web development, and design. Whereas traditional coding bootcamps teach these skills in a classroom, Thinkful students learn via 1-on-1 mentorship, affording them a more individualized learning experience and access to a growing local and national professional network. The result: A guaranteed job in tech or your tuition back.
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iE is a nonprofit, global community welcoming entrepreneurs from all over the world. We believe in the power of ideas to change the face of entrepreneurship and growing business through our five pillars; mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding. TiE was founded in 1992 by a group of successful entrepreneurs and is currently the world’s largest entrepreneurial organization out there. With programs like TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) and Mentor Match, we are reaching out and fostering the next generation of entrepreneurs.
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The UNT Music Entrepreneurship Competition provides an opportunity to promote student engagement, entrepreneurial thinking, and innovative action. Over $18,000 in cash prizes will be distributed among the top competitors. All full-time College of Music students are eligible to participate. Students will prepare music business plans utilizing a variety of resources including online business-plan writing tutorials, existing entrepreneurship courses, competition workshops, and faculty mentorship.
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The Big Idea Competition is UT Dallas' largest startup pitch competition. Undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines compete for cash and scholarship prizes and the chance to pitch in front of their peers and a panel of esteemed judges.
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Blackstone LaunchPad is a campus based entrepreneurship program, accessible by over 500,000 students globally, designed to support and mentor students, staff and alumni - regardless of major, experience, or discipline.
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the local chapter of UXPA International with over 2,800 members in DFW. This group serves the needs of designers in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area. With this group, you can: Network with other designers to exchange ideas, Listen to speakers at monthly meetings, Look for your next opportunity with managers and recruiters, Learn best practices at a workshop, attend the Big Design Conference to learn from industry experts, see local talent showcased to spotlight the Best of Dallas UX.
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The Venture Dallas conference convenes innovators, business luminaries, and investors from around the nation who want to experience the forces propelling Dallas-Fort Worth as a premier hub of innovation.
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In May 2014, WATT relaunched as a community that encourages women in technology to be fearless as they advance their careers, providing education, inspiration, guidance, and connections to career opportunities. Mission: To encourage women to be fearless in sharing their unique perspectives and talents; To encourage more women and girls to enter and advance to leadership roles in technology related fields; and to encourage companies to intentionally hire for gender balance.
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Provided by LaunchDFW, provides up to date source for weekly events happening in the DFW innovation ecosystem, including area meetups, events, and classes.
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WiNGS provides women the tools and resources to become strong mothers, successful in the workplace and financially secure.
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Women’s Technology Coalition (Women’s Tech Co.) is a resourceful and inspiring non-profit organization focused on leveling the playing field for women in tech-enabled professions. We create engaging environments for forward-thinking technologists and entrepreneurs to connect and succeed. Women's Tech Co. fosters valuable quarterly events, as well as an annual fundraiser benefiting STEM education.
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Local Texas business, science, and technology news. Xconomy covers information technology, biotech, energy, and other sectors of the Texas economy.
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XD is an alliance to recognize and connect industry thought leaders in the fields of Design, Technology, Research, Product and Marketing. It will be the professional connection touchpoint to empower leaders through cross-functional collaboration.