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Houston Technology Center’s Fourth Annual Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference – CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Houston Technology Center’s
Fourth Annual Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference
March 6 & 7, 2008
Marriott Houston Westchase

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Application Deadline:
Monday, December 10, 2007

Houston Technology Center’s 4th annual Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference will bring together 30 of the most promising emerging energy technology companies with an audience of venture capitalists, private equity, angel and corporate investors and [...]

Best Houston OpenCoffee Club Meetup Ever!

 

Pardon my excitement, but yesterday’s OpenCoffee Club event had our best attendance ever (between 40 - 50 people).  I think the coverage that OpenCoffee Club and StartupHouston received at the Rice Alliance IT and Web 2.0 Venture Forum helped and I also think the mention by Marc Nathan at the HTC Orientation event helped as well.  We [...]

Comparing Houston to San Francisco: A Perspective

So I have been here in San Francisco for most of this week and will get on a plane back you H-Town in a few hours. Since I continually hear comparisons drawn between the Bay Area and Space City, I thought I would offer some of my observations:

In San Francisco, capital pours into the city [...]

Tent Revival at the 5th Annual Rice Alliance IT and Web 2.0 Venture Forum – Part I

 

“I feel like I’m at a Tent Revival.”  These are the words (paraphrasing) that Brad Burke had to say after listening to Blair Garrou, Marc Nathan, Josh Tabin and myself talk at the end of the Rice Alliance IT and Web 2.0 Venture forum about the exciting things that we see happening within Houston’s startup [...]

GlobalPitch: Think Facebook meets CareerBuilder, with a little YouTube

Houston startup, GlobalPitch launched it new beta site last week. Here is an overview of the service from GlobalPitch founders:

With tens of millions of resumes on the Internet, and hundreds of applicants for each job posting, it is very challenging for job seekers to differentiate themselves. GlobalPitch is the Internet destination where job seekers [...]

Konstruction Zone in the Zone

A good friend the the Houston startup community, Robert Brackenridge, had some favorable press about his new venture, Konstruction Zone. Brackenridge recently left his post with the Houston Technology Center to start Konstruction Zone, an online playground for kids that allows site visitors to upload images of their creations using LEGOs, Lincoln Logs or other [...]

Rice Alliance – Retrospective

I am exhausted and exhilarated all at once right now. Spending an entire day talking startups, venture capital and networking tends to do that to me. Today was no exception.

First off, thanks to Brad Burke and the Rice Alliance for putting on one heckuva show. The presenters were excellent, the forum was well run and [...]

Join us for the Houston OpenCoffee Club November Meetup

Join us for the next Houston OpenCoffee Club on Thursday, November 15th! 

About : The Houston OpenCoffee Club encourages open and informal discussion and networking among entrepreneurs, technology enthusiasts, and investors to help grow startup companies in the Houston area.

Thursday, November 15th, 2007 
8:00AM – 10:00AM

The Coffee Groundz
2503 Bagby St
Houston, TX 77006
(713) 874-0082
Map

You can RSVP here: http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1424/calendar/6356792/

You can find [...]

Some Jelly With Your Open Coffee?

Right after OpenCoffee next Thursday, November 15, Startup Houston will be sponsoring Houston’s first Jelly event starting at 10:00 AM CST at Coffee Groundz. For those of you who are not familiar with Jelly meetings, they are basically a coworking event for folks who usually work from home to get out and interact with other [...]

What’s in a name?

Juliet:
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

Recently, Kleiner Pekins Caufield Byers noted to the Silicon Valley Watcher that “we have absolutely no interest in funding Web 2.0 companies.” According to this report, KP felt that Web 2.0 had [...]