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Trey Bowles’ company, Dallas Entrepreneurs Center (DEC), connects up-and-coming businesses with investors. Recently the DEC partnered with Uber for UberPitch, where 35 startups tried to woo six investors. While the event was a success — one entrepreneur called it the best day of his life — the next few months are what really count, according...

Trey Bowles envisioned a need and quickly met it. He saw the Dallas-Fort Worth area as a burgeoning community of young business owners and leaders, so he led an initiative to launch the Dallas Entrepreneur Center in 2013. They needed direction. He wanted to help this growing group, but “we also felt like that nobody...

It is often said that 8 out of 10 companies fail within the first two years of launch. Here at The DEC, our goal is to flip that number around so that 8 out of 10 companies actually succeed. But why 2 years? What is so special about 2 years that most companies cannot reach...