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StartupHouston visits FireSabre Consulting in Second Life

 

Recently myself and Josh Tabin interviewed the founders of FireSabre Consulting who have built a business in Second Life constructing virtual environments for businesses, schools and nonprofits.  The founders, Fred Fuchs and Kevin Shaum, who go by their avatar names of Gus Pliskin and Tinker Lafollette, are based here in Houston and took us for [...]

The Planet and AptConnect get Chronicle Coverage

Operating about as far apart on the spectrum as you can get for two technology companies, both The Planet; the Number 1 privately held, dedicated server hosting provider in the world, and AptConnect; a social networking startup for apartment communities, both got coverage in a recent article by Chron.com real estate reporter Nancy Sarnoff.

The article [...]

Building A BEST Place To Work Company in 2008!

Startup Houston invites you to explore what is possible inside your organization with two FREE Workshops from Houston based The BEST Places To Work. Each are designed for you and your team to have a breakthrough in the way you view your business such that 2008 could be the start of a whole new [...]

Free Job Postings from GlobalPitch – Limited Time

GlobalPitch has offered our readers free job postings on the GlobalPitch site for January and February. GlobalPitch is a Houston-based startup that is trying to transform how job seekers and employers leverage rich media technologies to improve the recruiting and interview process. We ran a feature about them here.

Job Postings (usually $249 per month) [...]

Start Your New Year off right with The Houston Startup Happy Hour

Our first Houston Startup Happy Hour was such a smash that we decided to make it part of a full time schedule.  From now on the happy hour will always be on the first Thursday of every month, starting with our next event on Thursday, January 3rd.  For now we will be calling Sonoma’s [...]

Natuba Re-released With a New Look and Feel

Houston based incubator, Hush Labs, has re-released their first product, Natuba, with an entirely new design and mission: to make it easy for people to get content off of their phone and on to the web to be shared and enjoyed by all. This represents a shift from the RSS-based version that was launched earlier [...]

HTC Energy Tech VC Conference – Deadline Extended

We first mentioned the call for presenters here. The deadline for application has been extended. Executive Summary must be submitted no later than: Friday, January 11, 2008, 10:00 AM CST. In addition, the keynote speaker will be John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil Company.

I have uploaded the call for presenters here. This is a premiere event [...]

Got Social Media?

Houston’s own Erica O’Grady is coordinating Houston’s first Got Social Media Conference on January 24, 2008 to be held at the Houston Technology Center from 10:00 am – 7:00 pm. To quote Erica on this event:

“It’s predicted that by 2012 Social Media/Community Marketing Budgets will outweigh Traditional Marketing Budgets – and I’m not the least [...]

Santé Ventures Raises $130 Million Debut Healthcare Venture Fund

Santé Ventures, an Austin based venture capital group focused on medical technology, health services and health care IT raised $130 million for its debut fund. Although the fund is new, the group has been investing in companies for some time now. Santé is not stranger to Houston having invested in two local companies: Tyrell and [...]

The Planet has landed in downtown Houston

I received a press release Wednesday morning announcing that The Planet would be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony at their new World Headquarters at Bayou Place, and since even the Mayor had proclaimed that Wednesday would officially declared as “The Planet Day,” I decided to drop by to see what it was all about.  For [...]