April 23, 2026 | Start.Pivot.Grow. Why AaaS — Agent as a Service — is the most important business model shift of our generation. We've been selling software wrong. For decades, the SaaS model dominated: pay per seat, pay per user, pay per month. The value was access. You paid to get in the door. What happened after that was your problem. That era is ending. Innovator and thought leader Atlas Berry called it first. In a recent post that stopped my scroll, Berry framed the sh

Southern Dallas small business storefront with a 'Grand Opening' sign Two organizations dedicated to helping small businesses in North Texas have joined forces to support entrepreneurs in North Texas (Southern Dallas). Start.Pivot.Grow., an accelerator powered by Integrality , and PeopleFund , a Texas-based Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), have launched a new initiative to help established businesses prepare for and access capital. This program runs from Ma

We've all heard it before: "Find a mentor. Build your network. Attend the workshops." And while that advice isn't wrong, it's dangerously incomplete—especially for Black and Latinx founders who are already operating in an ecosystem that wasn't designed with them in mind. CEO of Black Ambition Felecia Hatcher Felecia Hatcher, CEO of Black Ambition, is cutting through the noise with a message that every founder advocate needs to hear: mentorship without money is just motivation