Imprint Originally Posted: February 3, 2016 The following is an excerpt from an article written by Dedman College alumnus Matt Alexander featuring Valentine’s day gift idea’s from Bumble, a company founded by another Dedman College alumna, Whitney Wolfe. Over the past year or so, it’s been a pleasure to watch the rapid rise and success of Bumble, an innovative […]
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TechCrunch Originally Posted: January 26, 2016 Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist? We’ve asked the question before (more than once, in fact), and it looks like it may be in order again: 5miles, an app developed in China but being rolled out in the U.S. first as a quick way […]
KERA Originally Posted: January 20, 2016 When most little boys were running up and down stairs, Ben Dupree was using his arms to pull himself up the wood banister in his home in University Park. His mom, Debbie, knew something was wrong. “I can remember any step he would take, being worried that he was […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: January 26, 2016 A garage sale on your smartphone is a growing business that was made for mobile apps. 5miles, a Dallas and Beijing-based company, is working to become a major player in the local classified advertising business that’s been dominated online for 20 years by Craigslist. The 1-year-old mobile […]
Golf.com Originally Posted: January 26, 2016 An industrial office park on the outskirts of Liberty Hill, Texas, is an unlikely place for a revolution, but one is being manufactured there, next door to EcoWater Systems, around the corner from a street sign that reads REPORT POACHING TO GAME WARDEN. This is the humble home of […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: January 19, 2016 A doctor’s mission: Showing why literature matters to medicine During four years of medical school, Dr. Susan Oh kept herself from reading books other than those related to her studies. “Even though I wanted to, it would be like, ‘No, I need to further my knowledge and […]
Cheat Sheet Originally Posted: January 11, 2016 Catching Up With Kelvin Beachum: One of the NFL’s Good Guys We recently sat down and had a conversation with Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Kelvin Beachum to discuss everything from his rehab, to his personal life, to his football career, to his philanthropic work off the field. BY […]
New Mexico Magazine Originally Posted: January Issue By JIM O’DONNELL | Photography by MINESH BACRANIA IN THE WINTER of 2010, more than 200 inches of snow dumped on Taos Ski Valley, and Kyle Hawari and Brooks Thostenson, twentysomething buddies from Texas, didn’t waste a flake: They rocked an impressive 90 days on the slopes that […]
Esquire Magazine Originally Posted: November 28, 2015 Whitney Wolfe Will Get You a Date The brains behind Bumble is one of Esquire’s 2015 breakouts We threw a dinner party for the men and women behind the biggest blockbusters, breakthroughs, and debuts of the year. Read the rest of the interviews here. Before Tinder was […]