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Join us for the next Houston Startup Happy Hour on Thursday May 1st

Startup Houston and the Houston Technology Center are proud to present
The May Houston Startup Happy Hour.

Demo by Strongroom Solutions

 

The May Houston Startup Happy Hour features a live presentation of StrongRoom Solutions. StrongRoom Solutions offers a B2B service called the Payables Lockbox that is an online bill-pay service that lets business customers [...]

Houston got Kawasakied!!!

So I missed Guy Kawasaki speaking live at the Houston Technology Center last week but caught most of it on Upstream.TV while I sat in San Francisco (irony can be quite humorous). Here is a copy of the presentation Guy gave (Guy Kawasaki at The Houston Technology Center). I have heard nothing but great things [...]

APB for Developers: Make Yourselves Known

I hear this from startups all day long: I need developers; know any?

Frankly I don’t know enough of you and desperately want to.

Here’s what I suggest. If you are a developer looking for something interesting to work on, go to our forums and post your name so we can refer you when we get requests. [...]

Buy & Sell Your Stuff on Campus with Bubblevine

Local entrepreneur Monica Yoo, sister of serial entrepreneur and Natuba founder Richard Yoo, has just launched her first venture, Bubblevine, a marketplace for college students within a school commuinity to buy and sell stuff to fellow students in a safe and comfortable environment: campus. 

“While I was a junior in college at Trinity, I was looking for apartment furniture on [...]

Constant Contact is in H-Town to Show off their Email Marketing Service

I received an email earlier today from Julie Niehoff of Constact Contact informing me that they are having a lunch-n-learn at the UofH Small Business Development Center on how effective ways of using their email marketing service.  Constant Contact is one of the better known email marketing services out there so if you are looking for [...]

Guy Kawasaki is speaking at the Houston Technology Center tomorrow night (Thursday)

As we wrote here, Guy Kawasaki is coming to Houston to speak at the Houston Technology Center about his book, The Art of the Start.  We will be there covering the event and asking questions that we hope will help Houston’s entrepreneurs and startups.  In addition, we’d like to ask for your input. 

What questions would [...]

April Houston Startup Happy Hour Jams with JamsBio

 

 We had a great time at the April Houston Startup Happy Hour this past Thursday with the JamsBio launch.  The turnout was greater than we expected and filled the entire bar area (see photos and video below).  We went with a different venue (The Tasting Room) and format (Demos + Networking) for this [...]

Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference

The first ever Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference is being planned by the team behind Search Engine Guide and Small Business Brief, two sites that have long devoted themselves to demystifying online marketing for small business owners. They’ve taken the feedback their readers have shared about other marketing conferences and decided to put their own [...]

College Station Rising Star

Friend of Startup Houston and all-around good egg, Bill Erickson got some spotlight from the Mays Business School online recently. Bill is a frequent Houston visitor and part of the Creative Space in Bryan/College Station we wrote about some time back. His biggest claim to fame so far has been his involvement in creating and [...]

Angels Staying in the Outfield

Angel investors are approaching investments with a more cautious eye given recent market volatility claims a recent research report by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. The 2007 Angel Market Analysis showed that the growth of investments were relatively steady while the amount invested grew at a slower pace implying [...]