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Board Chairman Ethan Hall is excited to announce that Dallas startup veterans Jeremy Vickers and Skip Howard have agreed to join the makerSeed board of directors as Treasurer and Secretary respectively.

Jeremy Vickers is the Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UT Dallas. Prior to UTD, Jeremy was V.P. of Innovation at the Dallas Regional Chamber.  Past companies include the Dallas Entrepreneur Center, Texas Research Alliance, InnovateDFW, Texas Institute for Sustainable Technology, and the North Texas RCIC. Jeremy received his Master’s at SMU’s Cox School of Business and his Bachelor’s at Baylor University.

Skip Howard is the Founder and CEO of Spacee, leaders in spatial augmented reality. In 2014, he co-founded Cancer Gene Connect, the leaders in hereditary cancer risk assessments.  Prior to CGC, he co-founded Pave Systems, judicial software company for higher education. Skip also consulted for Ross Perot’s real estate company, Hillwood. Skip currently runs the largest computer vision developers group south of New York. 

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There is a new accelerator in town.  Formed in late 2015, makerSeed is an innovative accelerator program exclusively for hardware startups.  The 501(c)(3) nonprofit program will be based in Dallas, TX and partner with local universities, vendors, manufacturers, and industry experts as team mentors.

The program will disrupt the traditional equity, VC, and valuation driven accelerator model by funding founders without equity in exchange.  Instead, successful companies will share a small percentage of sales with the program.  In lieu of focusing on raising VC rounds or finding an exit, startups can build real companies with direct sales into partner channels and valuations based on revenue.

The program plans to target a local Dallas university campus on which to pilot the program and prove the model concept in Q1 2017.

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