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Received notice that the next Houston Netsquared Meetup Group will be on July 10th at the StagsHead Pub. This is a great group that allows you to meet other creative technology people while socially mixing, swapping stories and ideas, building new relationships, and reinforcing the online NetSquared community. You can find more information about this meetup [...] The Rice Alliance is offering a 2-day Technology Entrepreneurial Workshop on July 25th and 26th that is designed to teach the Basics of Starting, Growing, and Funding a Successful Startup Technology Company. The Rice Alliance is one of the key driving forces in helping the startup community in Houston (in addition to being one of [...] June 27th, 2007 | Category: Events, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
 Leave a comment I just saw this one come across the wire this morning. Here is a brief description from their press release: Houston, TX, June 24, 2007 –(PR.com)– “YippyKya” announced the launch of a revolutionary social networking site that provides people the opportunity to make money or get discovered as artists, all while making friends across the world. [...] OK, I know this is not in Houston, but it’s close enough and I didn’t want people to miss out at a chance to speak with Google. It seems that Refresh Bryan-College Station has arranged for Google to present at their next meeting on June 27th and will discuss “their product line, services, and what [...] Sorry I couldn’t stay longer or post earlier, but had a great time just the same. Here were some of the highlights for me: I was excited to see some of Houston’s upcoming talent there at the meeting, including some guys from Hush Labs / Natuba, which we covered here. They told me [...] I found out about Houston-based Cell-it in this article from Webware, talking about the state of video classified ads today. In the article they talk about how the broader use of video classifieds is overdue and whether smaller companies can get enough traction in the market before someone like Google or EBay tries to [...] Just received word today that Houston-based startup ThySpace has put up their announcement page, with ability to be notified when they launch. According to their VP of Creative Operations – Patrick Scott, and CEO – Bill Mosely, the site will launch in mid-July, and will provide most of the features people expect in social [...] Business 2.0 has a good article on the six things that startups should do to get bought by Google. Of course, they aren’t speaking literally, but since a lot of Web 2.0 startups today are looking to acquisition as their exit strategy, it has some good principles that apply. Here’s the short version [...] I was catching up on RSS feeds tonight after recovering my laptop from the depths of despair (blue screened twice today…arrgh!!!) and came across a post from a friend of mine. It references a post from the Houstonist regarding Joel Kotkin’s report to the Greater Houston Partnership about Opportunity Urbanism. Overall I do not disagree with [...] Phonecasting, a local Houston company (Kingwood really) that “is an online content delivery and social media network offering easy access to your favorite podcasting and phonecasting.” Their new site is set to launch June 29 (to coincide with the iPhone launch) in which podcasters can set their channel feeds to be available through the iPhone [...] |
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