Meet two Dallas women who turned a frustrating morning into a $7.5 million enterprise
Meet two Dallas women who turned a frustrating morning into a $7.5 million enterprise
Janie Cooke and Caroline Nix came up with an idea for a better key ring, chipped in $5,000 each and ran with it.
Oventure co-CEOs and founders Janie Cooke (left) and Caroline Nix pose with their Big O Key Rings.(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor)
Janie Cooke and Caroline Nix have a multimillion-dollar enterprise to show for it.
Exactly nine years ago, the 40-somethings made plans to meet at Southpaws in Preston Center to kick around ideas for going into business together.
Fidelity Investments to hire hundreds at Westlake campus by mid-2021
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Winter’s blast of misery brings out Dallas’ big philanthropic heart
Local charities say the immediate outpouring of support was unlike anything they’ve experienced before.
Burst pipes damaged one of The Family Place s transitional housing apartments where moms and kids live for up to one year.(Courtesy of the Family Place)
In all her years of fundraising, Family Place CEO Paige Flink has never experienced anything like Dallas’ rallying spirit during the February storms. And she hopes she never needs it again.
Flink was sitting at her kitchen table command center when she sent a desperate tweet early in the afternoon of Tuesday, Feb. 16. The Family Place’s shelter was without power, 123 women and children were freezing, and the sprinkler system was about to burst. Pleading for help, she tagged city, county and state officials.
Lucky 13th year of the Top 100 Places to Work competition is underway
Here are five good reasons your company should enter.
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Today
The Dallas Morning News begins taking nominations for Top 100 Places to Work 2021 our 13th annual star search for employers who give others something to shoot for.
We’re looking for organizations that have managed to keep a sense of workplace in a virtual world and companies that switched gears to keep on truckin’.