Friday, 30th of November 2007 at 04:57:04 PMThe Rice Business Plan Competition is one of the largest and richest intercollegiate new venture competitions in the world. Thirty-six of the top MBA and Graduate Schools from around the world will compete for over $345,000 in prizes at Rice University in Houston. The event is judged by over 150 venture capitalists, angel [...]
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Texas A&M University’s Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship is hosting Envision08 at the Marriott River Center in San Antonio, TX from April 23-25, 2008. The even looks very high profile and has a GREAT speaker roster: Marcus Buckingham The event will be a mix of general sessions, workshops, networking events and other exciting [...] Philadelphia Eagles Offering Fans Assistance Via Text-Messaging The NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles are using a unique text-alert system powered by qtags to provide in-stadium assistance to fans at Lincoln Financial Field. Eagles fans who need emergency help or who have a situation that requires the attention of stadium personnel can text a keyword to 78247 (q-t-a-g-s). This initial [...] I spoke with Tory Gattis of OpenTeams recently about what has been going on with their offering. After viewing the demo, it looks like the application is best suited for development groups and project management (although Tory told me that proj. mgt. is not their focus since there are so many other solutions in [...] When I left my last position and was waffling on starting a consulting practice, everyone told me to talk with Ernie Rapp (LinkedIn, Facebook). At the time, Ernie had his own consulting practice here in Houston for over 5 years and had made a wonderful go at it. We bacme instant friends and have kept [...] According to a recent study released by the Human Capital Institute, Houston ranked 19 out of 43 in a survey of 641 respondents asked where their preferred metropolitan area for possible job relocation might be. The top 10 ranked by preference were: San Diego Allan Schweyer, president and executive director of the Human Capital [...] From our family at Startup Houston to yours, Happy Thanksgiving, which is a celebration of one of the greatest startups in human history, America. “Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of thanksgiving [...] Some of you may not know this but we have a list that we are developing on Houston based startup companies. So far, we have two listed but I know there are more. Kurt and I have been eager to add to this list but time constraints have made this hard. So please visit the directory [...] Houston based online community, CareFlash, announced a relationship with the Children’s Cancer Hospital at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson in which childhood cancer experts are moderating blogs involving childhood leukemia…with further blogs being developed around childhood brain tumors, proton therapy and others. The blog posts are written by Children’s Cancer Hospital faculty members and [...] So I went and setup some social networking groups for Startup Houston: Plaxo Please visit the groups and sign up!!!! Am I missing any? |
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