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The New York Times makes a compelling case for Seattle’s tech startup scene as a promising future competitor to Silicon Valley. The statement that resonates the most is: “A start-up ecosystem needs social networks, support businesses and a business culture that views failure as a badge of honor, not shame.” I think Houston has elements one and [...] The Small Business Development Center at the University of Houston has a nice slate of seminars for small business owners and entrepreneurs lined up in February and March. Here are some that might be worthwhile for Startup Houston readers: Financing Panel  Congratulations to Josh Tabin on being featured in the Moneymakers / Business section of the Houston Chronicle today. Here is a quick excerpt: Tabin recently spoke with Chronicle technology reporter Brad Hem about the state of Houston’s tech sector. Q: One of Houston’s biggest promoters of technology is Walter Ulrich, who leads the Houston Technology Center. His [...] The Rice Alliance has gone and outdone themselves again by nearly doubling the amount of funds that will be awarded at this year’s Business Plan Competition. They will be awarding over $600,000 dollars in funds for approximately 36 different graduate teams from around the world, which enables them to lay claim to hosting “the largest and [...] February 7th, 2008 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, NanoTech, VC and Angel Funding |
 One comment The UP Experience will be in SugarLand tomorrow and it looks to be a very promising event. If you are going, please make sure to come back here and give us the scoop in our comments section, or provide us a link to your blog post. You can find more information about The UP Experience [...] If you love <3 Startups as much as we do, then you don’t want to miss our next Houston Startup Happy Hour this Thursday (tomorrow), Feb. 7th! Our last Houston Startup Happy Hour was such a smash (over 100 people) that we decided to make it part of a full time schedule. From now on the happy hour [...] February 6th, 2008 | Category: Events, General, Houston Startup Happy Hour, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
One comment Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much lately and that Josh has been adding most of the content. Well, I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m back in action and you will be seeing a lot more posts from me in the near future. For those interested, essentially [...] |
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