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After what we reported on here, it is refreshing to see the Rice Alliance getting some of the national recognition they deserve. Now it’s one thing to be included in a group of your peers, but it is another thing entirely to be named #1. The Rice Alliance was recognized as “the leading university entrepreneurship [...] A few weeks ago I had the chance to have coffee with Blair Garrou of DFJ Mercury. For those of you who do not know Blair, you should. Blair was one of the individuals instrumental in the formation and development of both the Houston Angel Network and the Houston Technology Center where he served as [...] October 28th, 2007 | Category: General, Houston Venture Capitalists, Interviews, VC and Angel Funding |
 6 comments “Used, abused without clues Public Enemy, Don’t Believe The Hype Raise your hand if you really believe that Facebook is really valued at $15 billion! Sorry but I don’t. Here’s what I believe: Microsoft paid $240 million for the right to [...] This morning I had the pleasure of getting out of bed early to attend the Houston Technology Center’s Education Seminar Series on Raising Capital in Texas Today. Today’s session was entitled, “Current Active Capital Sources in Texas“. The moderator for the event was Scott Crist of Aegis Texas Ventures. Our panel of experts for this [...] October 25th, 2007 | Category: Events, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment Michael Rice of Coderights referred me to a great resource for entrepreneurs seeking angel funding, The Angel Capital Education Foundation. ACEF was founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation whose work on entrepreneurship is first-rate. In particular, they run a site, eVenturing.org which has tremendous resources for entrepreneurs. My favorite series was one on valuing [...] I had an opportunity to catch up with Kala Marathi, Managing Director of the Houston Angel Network recently. Here are some excerpts from our chat: Josh: Can you give me a little history behind the beginnings of HAN to today? Kala: The Houston Angel Network was founded in 2001 by prominent angel investors and business leaders in [...] October 22nd, 2007 | Category: General, Houston Venture Capitalists, Interviews, VC and Angel Funding |
13 comments This week is the 2007 HiMA Interactive Strategies event. This is a great learning and networking event where progressive marketers can learn from industry experts by diving into discussions covering the latest interactive strategies, innovative concepts and advanced technologies. There is a great line up of 16 speakers and sessions, as well as keynote speaker [...]
We were very excited to learn that StartupHouston was featured in an article about StartupWeekend Houston in last Friday’s Houston Business Journal, however it appears that they gave us too much credit. While it is true that StartupHouston helped to promote the event, participated in the event, and helped to even find sponsors for the event, the main credit [...] October 15th, 2007 | Category: Events, General, Houston OpenCoffee Club, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews, Startup Weekend Houston |
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Found out today through Marc Nathan that ForeFlight (which we covered here) was featured on Apple’s new iPhone WebApps list. The list, which was just made available today features the ForeFlight web app in the Weather section. For those who need a refresher ForeFlight iPhone Edition™ “provides pilots access to their MyMetar.com accounts and aviation [...] There are so many things coming up in Houston’s startup community that you’ve just got to be excited (I know we are)! Here’s a roundup of some recent startup and entrepreneur news and info that is interesting: I saw on Mike McGuff’s blog that UpExperience has recently announced their list of speakers for the February 2008 [...] |
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