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kurt  Monday, 30th of July 2007 at 08:29:49 AM
When: Wednesday, August 15, 2007, 7:00 PM
Where: Houston Technology Center, 410 Pierce St , Houston , TX 77002, 713-658-1750
Our favorite new entrepreneur, Robert Brackenridge, has started a new Adobe Flash Meetup Group and the first meeting will be on Wednesday, August 15th, at the Houston Technology Center (no surprise there - ).
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kurt  Monday, 30th of July 2007 at 08:04:36 AM
You have probably noticed that StartupHouston posts information about different technology meetup groups around town and wondered “What do these meetup groups have to do with Startups?” Well, one of the goals of StartupHouston is to help everyone understand all of the resources that are available to them in the Houston startup community. In my [...]
kurt  Monday, 30th of July 2007 at 07:59:05 AM
When: Tuesday, Jul 31, 2007, 7:00 PM
Where: Webxites, 2500 Citywest Blvd 25th Floor, Houston, TX 77042
Here is what is listed as the topic for this meeting:
We don’t have a presenter for this months CSS Meetup – so we’re doing a fun activity instead. Bring your CSS Problems to our next meetup – and [...]
kurt  Monday, 30th of July 2007 at 07:58:53 AM
When: Thursday, Aug 2, 2007, 7:00 PM
Where: University of Houston, College of Technology, Technology Building 2, Room 207, Houston, TX 77004, (936) 718-1376
Here is what is listed as the topic for this meeting:
Joao Prado Maia will give a presentation about Form Validation with PHP, Smarty, AJAX and XML to close the gap between client-side validation [...]
kurt  Tuesday, 24th of July 2007 at 12:27:14 PM
I recently had the privilege of interviewing Neal Verma, one of the founders of iRazoo, a search engine that uses Web 2.0 and the power of its user community to provide more relevant search results to all users. iRazoo is a Houston-based company that just launched their site about 2 months ago and Neal brought me up to speed with all of the great things going on there.
Startup Houston (SH): How did iRazoo get started?
Neal Verma (NV): iRazoo got started based on ideas I’ve had about how to create a better search engine. The need to create our solution was because of the irrelevant and large quantity of results returned by current search engines. Most search engines today return millions of results that are irrelevant or manipulated by Search Engine Optimization marketing companies. When most users come to a search engine they have a specific question and are looking for a specific answer. What happens though is that each user has to go on a treasure hunt to find the one result, among thousands or millions, that really answers their keyword query. In this treasure hunt that user is seeking the answer that is like a piece of gold. iRazoo will provide search results that help users strike gold quicker.
SH: What do you think the odds are for iRazoo at this stage of the search engine game?
NV: The real question here is can a small band of guys uproot a big gorilla? The answer is yes. It’s already been done. Yahoo used to be king and now Google is. Relevancy won in the end of that race and we can be even more relevant using human intelligence and collaboration. Our goal is to have 99.9 relevancy within the first 3 search results. Google’s stated mission is to organize all of the info in the world. iRazoo’s mission is not only to do that, but to also increase its relevancy and timeliness. We are getting closer to this goal every day.
kurt  Monday, 23rd of July 2007 at 12:59:55 AM
Join us for the next Houston OpenCoffee Club on Thursday, July 26th!
About : OpenCoffee Club encourages informal discussion and networking among entrepreneurs and investors to help grow startup companies in the Houston area. Houston’s success continues to grow and thus, we are happy to announce that we are holding our third OpenCoffee Club at the [...]
Josh Tabin  Monday, 16th of July 2007 at 04:49:30 PM
VeriCenter announced today that it has reached an agreement with Sunguard to be acquired for an undisclosed sum. VeriCenter is a local managed hosting provider that acquired itself into this business through the purchase of Dell Hosting from Sprint back in 2003. Just a few weeks ago, VeriCenter announced that it had annualized revenues of [...]
Josh Tabin  Monday, 16th of July 2007 at 10:19:25 AM
The 2007 Houston FastTech 50 program is accepting nominations for technology firms in Houston that are experiencing growth for its 2007 awards. The qualifications for this program are:
“To qualify for the FastTech 50, your company’s headquarters must be located in the Houston SMSA ten county area which includes Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, [...]
Josh Tabin  Monday, 16th of July 2007 at 09:53:14 AM
Local disaster recovery firm, CyrusOne was acquired last week by private equity firm Abry Partners for an undisclosed sum. As part of this transaction, Abry will also plow another $40-50 million to add additional sites to CyrusOne’s portfolio of data centers. Local entrepreneur Dave Ferdman will continue to lead the company as CEO.
This is the [...]
kurt  Thursday, 12th of July 2007 at 05:20:09 PM
It seems like everyone is developing new apps for the iPhone and Houston startups are no exception. MyMetar announced that they have just released the ForeFlight iPhone edition. Here are more details from their press release:
“ForeFlight.com announced today the availability of two new mobile applications designed specifically for the iPhone. MyMetar iPhone Edition™ provides pilots access to [...]
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