Wednesday, 11th of July 2007 at 11:28:52 PMFor those of you who are not familiar with her, Erica O’Grady is a tireless promoter of the technology community within Houston. You can see her influence in groups ranging from Refresh Houston to the NetSquared Meetup Group, as well as BarCamp Houston, and everything else in between. She is also a regular [...]
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Get ready to mark your calendars because the Rice Alliance has just announced their schedule of events for the rest of 2007 and 2008.  We have the quick reference version for you below and you can get additional details on all the latest Rice Alliance goings-on at the events section of their web site. Rice Alliance Entrepreneurship and [...] July 11th, 2007 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
 Leave a comment Thanks to local entrepreneur and current honeymooner (shame on you for posting this) Richard Yoo for finding this for us. A great tool for trying to lure talented employees to Houston for startups… Governor Perry was downtown at the Greater Houston Partnership today to roll out Texas’ new Bioenergy Strategy and introduce the newly formed Texas Bioproducts Industry Council. This links to an MP3 of the press conference. It was great that he chose Houston for this release, especially since he announced a $5 million grant to Texas A&M [...] Are you a small or startup technology company that is looking for an additional source of funding? Well, the Texas Emerging Technology Fund might be something you want to check out. The Houston Gulf Coast Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (the GCRCIC) will be holding a workshop at the Houston Technology Center (HTC) on Tuesday, [...] A good friend to the Houston startup community and blogger, Marc Nathan of Bulldog Financial, managed to get himself interviewed by the Houston Chronicle in the Moneymakers column a few weeks ago. Marc will be moving into a more active role at the Houston Technology Center as the Director of the IT group as soon [...] Nick Carr has written a very topical piece in the Guardian about the changing fundamentals regarding software business operations. This opinion piece is very relevant to anyone contemplating starting a software business. Several friends in the data center space have been very active in securing more data center space to keep up with growth of their [...] Local star DataCert closed on what looks to be a $10 million Series E (?) round of funding with Memphis-based SSM Partners. This Houston based company “is the industry leader in corporate legal and IP spend and matter management solutions.” The funding will be put towards international growth of their array of offerings. DataCert [...] CSIdentity, an Austin based startup that provides identity-theft protection and background screening services, closed a $2.5 million Series A round with the four major angel networks in Texas, including our very own Houston Angel Network. Terms of the transaction were not readily available. The Houston Angel Network (or HAN as it is endearingly called around town) [...] Looks like Don Ellis was able to grab a couple of guys away from Sterling Bank to head up the new Patriot Bank branch in Clear lake (HBJ link). That puts them at 5 branches in Houston with plans to expand in Dallas in the future. I had Don and Bill Holmes look at a deal [...] |
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