Innovation is all around us

I can’t tell you how many entrepreneurs/innovators/idea people I see every week.  It amazes me when I hear that Dallas isn’t an innovation hub because I can hardly turn around without running into another startup.  It’s pretty cool.  It’s also why my partner and I are starting a new kind of fund in DFW.  We’re still not 100% sure on the name yet, but we will kick off our first class in the spring and will begin accepting applications January 1st.  More on that to come.

So Saturday I went to this meeting in south Dallas at Southside.  If you haven’t been there, it’s a pretty cool place to live.  Ran into some Mavericks on the elevator.  Made me feel a little like an oompa loompa.  But I digress…

The meeting was for a group called Clear Concepts.  They are kind of a closed, dues-based, IP dev and collaboration company.  Hard to explain, but a very interesting concept.  They all share their ideas, mostly consumer products, talk about the best ones and then figure out who is going to work on which idea and what the next steps are.  Everyone owns a piece of the company and it’s just plain fun.  I can’t talk about the ideas floating around, but they range from the nichey and absurd to the “why hasn’t anyone thought of this yet”?  

The guy who got it going is Steve Moore.  He is the inventor of the All Clear Mosquito Mister and quite a character.  If you are into consumer products or not into mosquitos, he’s a great guy to know.

More later on some of the other people I’ve met lately.

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