Houston Business Journal shows StartupHouston too much love

 

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 for organizing the event and bringing it to Houston in the first place goes to Erica O’Grady.  You can see the video interview I did with her here where we talked about her being one of the original founders of the event and how she sees Houston startup community evolving.  Many thanks to Erica for getting this started, as well as all of the other great things that she has organized such as Refresh Houston and BarCamp Houston.  We wouldn’t be the same town without her.

We’re also happy that TipDish got a lot of coverage in the article, but TipDish would not have happened if not for the hard work and creativity shown by all of those who attended the event, those who sponsored the event, and those who hosted the event.  So to share the love, I’ve listed them here:

StartupWeekend Houston Founders: 

• Andrew Hyde, Anthony Nguyen, Chris Doelle, Chris Massey, Chris Pitre, Chris Pratt, Chris Schilling, Erica O’Grady, Geri Druckman, Greg Thibodeaux, Gwendolyn Bell, Josh Tabin, Kelsey Ruger, Kurt Stoll, Laura Mayes, Marc Nathan, Marco Ramirez, Marcus Mateus, Matthew Alberty, Matthew Wettergreen, Melissa Garcia, Robert Gremillion, Tony DeMaria 

TipDish Concept

• Laura Mayes came up with the concept for TipDish, and what a great concept it is.  Out of all of the previous startupweekend events, most people think this one has the best chance of making money.  You can see my video interview with her here to see where she got the idea and what’s up with her new venture Sk*rt. 

StartupWeekend Houston Sponsors

• DFJ Mercury, Linux Journal, Tendenci, The Method Agency, The Planet, Mosaic CFO

StartupWeekend Houston Hosts

• The Method Agency generously let us invade their digs for the full weekend and all I could keep telling myself as I looked around was ‘What a cool place to work.’  They said they had an interview with the Mayor there the day after we left.  Hope he helped himself to some leftover pizza and granola.   
• You can see some pics from their office on our Flickr set.

Finally, a big ‘Thank You’ to Andrew Hyde and Gwen Bell for bringing StartupWeekend to Houston.  We appreciate the chance to show the other cities what makes Houston a great place for startups.

If we’ve left anyone out, feel free to drop us a line in our comments section or come tell us about it at our next OpenCoffee Club meetup.