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Norwegian VC Firm to Open Houston Office

Energy Ventures announced today the opening of two new offices for the firm, Aberdeen and Houston.  This Norwegian venture capital firm invests in “game changing” technologies in the upstream oil and gas markets, focused primarily on exploration and production activity.

There is some familial aspect to this announcement as well. Former president of the Houston Technology [...]

How playing poker and running a startup are similar yet different

“You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em
Know when to fold ‘em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run
You never count your money
When you’re sittin’ at the table
There’ll be time enough for countin’
When the dealin’s done”

Kenny Rogers from The Gambler

Words like these are ingrained onto the psyche of anyone who grew up south of [...]

Reminder: OpenCoffee Club is Tomorrow (Thursday)

Wanna keep the buzz going after BarCamp?   Join us for the next Houston OpenCoffee Club on Thursday, August 30th (tomorrow)! 

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 [...]

Local Startup Getting Some Chron Love

Those geeks in the lab coats from BarCamp last weekend are in the Chronicle today. Startup Houston still has plenty of invites so let us know if you want them.

Nice quotes from Kurt.

HTC’s Emerging Technology Council kickoff shows promise

 

I had a good time and several great conversations at HTC’s Emerging Technology Council (ETC) kickoff meeting this evening.  In a nutshell, the HTC ETC’s purpose is to help foster emerging technology companies in Houston and to do so they are looking to several different committees to provide support in key areas of importance for emerging companies.  [...]

Fortune names the top colleges for Entrepreneurs

     

Fortune Small Business recently came out with their list of the top colleges for Entrepreneurship and the only Houston college mentioned was University of Texas @ Houston.  I mean, really, does anyone know why they would not name Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management or University of Houston’s [...]

BarCampHouston2 Videos

OK, this will probably be the last BarCamp post (unless Josh comes up with some additional post-BarCamp wisdom).  Below are two videos that have been posted to YouTube covering different aspects of BarCamp Houston 2.

The first video is from Nathan Lott

and the second video is from Mike McGuff

Also, if anyone else out there knows where [...]

More thoughts on BarCampHouston2 and Follow-Up Links

 You know that you just went to a great conference when you come home with a fistful of business cards and you still didn’t get to talk to everyone that you wanted to.  My situation was a little different than most, but I had an outstanding time getting to meet so many people that play [...]

Pulling Yourself Up By Your Own Bootstraps

“And that was only one of the many occasions on which I met my death, an experience which I don’t hesitate strongly to recommend.”

Baron Munchausen from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

One thing I found fascinating from this weekend’s BarCamp Houston was the attention I was given when speaking about cash management and raising [...]

What I Got Out of BarCamp Houston

Most of my posts are pretty specific. I hope everyone grants me a little liberty for today.

BarCamp was a tipping point for the technology startup community in the Greater Houston area.

There, I said it. Now it is up to all of us to prove it.

We all know that the reason that Houston does not have [...]