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Top Stories: Startup Week Celebrates Entrepreneurs; A Dallas Film Festival Opens

Lauren Silverman
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KERA News
From left: entrepreneurs Mike Walsh, Julia Cheek, Richard Burghardt and Lauren Clarke at Dallas Startup Week 2016.

The top local stories this morning from KERA News: Several downtown Dallas buildings this week have become makeshift conference centers, classrooms, and deal sites for entrepreneurs and investors.

It’s part of anevent called Dallas Startup Week.

Other stories this morning:

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM. 

Eric Aasen is KERA’s managing editor. He helps lead the station's news department, including radio and digital reporters, producers and newscasters. He also oversees keranews.org, the station’s news website, and manages the station's digital news projects. He reports and writes stories for the website and contributes pieces to KERA radio. He's discussed breaking news live on various public radio programs, including The Takeaway, Here & Now and Texas Standard, as well as radio and TV programs in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.