Wednesday, 30th of January 2008 at 05:29:34 PMHere is the presentation I gave at the Houston Technology Center’s Web Based Business Startup School Series sponsored by The Planet:
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I was listening to Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio this past week and the topic was baseball salaries. Colin made note of the fact that the New York Yankees have, what amounts to an almost unlimited supply of cash to acquire as much talent as they can bring in. Unfortunately, this has not translated into [...] This past Friday morning I had the pleasure of getting out of bed early (again) to attend the Houston Technology Center’s Education Seminar Series on Raising Capital in Texas Today. Today’s session was entitled, “Raising Funds for Growth: Series B and Beyond“. The moderator for the event was Scott Crist of Aegis Texas Ventures. Our [...] January 19th, 2008 | Category: Energy, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
 Leave a comment If you’ve attended our last two Houston Startup Happy Hours or this past Thursday’s Open Coffee Club, you might have had the opportunity to meet our friends from the Creative Space in Bryan/College Station: Bill Erickson To quote them on what the Creative Space is: “The Creative Space [...] Please join us at the kickoff of the Houston Technology Center’s 2008 Web-Based Business Start-Up School series on January 30, 2008 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM where I will represent Startup Houston as the feature presenter for Web Trends – 2008. This series is sponsored by Houston’s own, The Planet and will be held [...] If you haven’t already made plans this morning, we hope that you will join us for Houston’s OpenCoffee Club! 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, January 17th, 2008
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Leave a comment Several months back, I met George Giannukos and Thomas Marriott, local entrepreneurs from Texas A&M who started a new gaming venture called GameWager. GameWager is an online, matchmaking platform that enables members of all skill sets to win cash/fun prizes & recognition competing in the most popular PC games online. They host pay-to-play (poker style), [...] For 2008 Startup Houston has invited some of Houston’s best and brightest to provide guest posts on topics that they feel can help the Houston startup community to experience more success in 2008. We are proud to have Misty Khan as our first guest blogger for January. Misty is the President and CEO of Advena Artemis, [...] January 14th, 2008 | Category: Conversations, General, Houston OpenCoffee Club, Houston Startup Happy Hour, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
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