website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nGlover conducted a soft launch in September. A couple hundred agents tested it. She says the reviews were good and the trials allowed them to work through any glitches.<\/p>\n
A new Fort Worth resident, Glover \u2014 a West Texan from head to sole and soul \u2014 headed\u00a0east, where the wide expanse of God\u2019s country begins, to get this off the ground.<\/p>\n
She is a client of TechFW, the nonprofit that since 1998 has served\u00a0as Fort Worth’s leading startup incubator and accelerator.\u00a0Proudly Fort Worth\u2013made, the app was built by Agency Habitat.<\/p>\n
She had a connection to Agency Habitat through a close friend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first thing I did was an attorney to trademark and help me before I ever went out,\u201d Glover says. \u201cThey introduced me to some companies up north that did development. I was going to go with whoever was best. If I have to fly, I\u2019ll fly.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the designers at Agency Habitat were so strong. The design was so important to me. I wanted it to feel good, to flow. When you opened it up, it brought you peace. I know that sounds funny, but real estate’s so crazy. I wanted it to where when you opened it up, it didn\u2019t give you more anxiety. I wanted it to be just like, \u2018Ah, here’s my business. Here’s everything. Great.\u2019 That’s why I went with Fort Worth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glover\u2019s story coincidentally mirrors Scott\u2019s just a bit.<\/p>\n
Glover is a native of Bandera, a town in the Hill Country, the \u201cCowboy Capital of the World.\u201d Not surprisingly, she was a barrel racer, a pursuit that led her to Big Spring and Howard College.<\/p>\n
She had been in school for a semester when she discovered that the college fund her grandparents had left her had, ahem, disappeared.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was one of those moments where it was like, \u2018Man, I can sit here and be mad and angry about it, or I can do something.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
She found a job at a bar in Midland, a 40-minute drive from Big Spring. She commuted to and fro Big Spring the second semester. She went to school and rode during the day, and she worked the bar at night.<\/p>\n
That schedule, as well as the economics, weren\u2019t sustainable.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew I couldn’t keep it up,\u201d she says. \u201cI was paying for horses, truck, trailer. Everything had a payment.\u201d<\/p>\n
That summer after her freshman year, Glover was introduced to real estate in Midland. She planned to study business in school anyway, so why not just jump in headfirst?<\/p>\n
\u201cI never thought I would be a college dropout, but I was like, you know, why don’t I try this for a few months? If I like it, then I can pursue real estate. And if not, I’ll just step right back in and get back to my business degree.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She made good money and darted ahead, like any good barrel racer, of her would-be college classmates.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think college is awesome, but for my journey, it didn’t look that way,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a huge blessing the time I had [at Howard College], but I just went straight into working.\u201d<\/p>\n
And she got to meet Kendra Scott, another \u201ccollege dropout.\u201d Scott followed her teenage-beloved from Kenosha, Wisconsin, to College Station and Texas A&M.<\/p>\n
Scott moved to Austin. There she began making jewelry out of a spare bedroom. Suffice to say, it all worked out for her. Her net worth is $900 million, according to Forbes, which keeps tabs on these things.<\/p>\n
Glover was an admirer before hitting send. She had taken interest in her career and read her autobiography.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After receiving the email, Scott\u2019s assistant reached out to Glover. The fashion mogul said she could give 30 minutes of her time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe ended up sitting on the phone for an hour, and she walked me through so much stuff and just gave me so much advice and so many thoughts,\u201d Glover says. \u201cThat was one of her things \u2014 being a college dropout, being unconventional, lean into that. All from a random email.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmails are free.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s amazing what can happen when pressed by circumstances into getting out of the comfort zone of a saddle. Oh, yes, and you hit send on an email. A free email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If good instincts make a good entrepreneur, consider Reannah Glover blessed. \u201cOne thing about me \u2014 that’s helped…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[79103,5229,9604,6055,7371,79104,7372,13814,30895,18695,27403,1595,79105,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-129788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-agency-habitat","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-entrepreneurs","11":"tag-female-entrepreneurs","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fort-worth-business-news","14":"tag-fortworth","15":"tag-john-henry","16":"tag-kendra-scott","17":"tag-proptech","18":"tag-real-estate-technology","19":"tag-startups","20":"tag-techfw","21":"tag-texas","22":"tag-top-story","23":"tag-tx","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114994717955480723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}