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Save The Dates: BioCamp and GreenCamp Houston

Building off of the sucessful showing we had at BarCamp Houston 2008, we are announcing two additional “Bar-Camp” themed events: BioCamp Houston and GreenCamp Houston.

BioCamp Houston will be held October 11, 2008 at the Houston Technology Center from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. BioCamp Houston is an informal, participatory, unconference BarCamp event to bring college/graduate [...]

Shameless Plug: Avert Ye Eyes If This Bothers You

So I have wrestled internally about doing this, but times have gotten that I need to make a point of distinguishing my professional life from what I do for the startup community in Houston. I am often asked to meet with members of our community to provide an evaluation of their business, introductions into the [...]

OpenCoffee Tomorrow Morning at Coffee Groundz in Midtown

Marc Nathan and I have been so busy lately that we neglected to send out a notice for tomorrow’s Houston OpenCoffee Club meeting. Well, as they say, better late than never.

Marc and I will be at Coffee Groundz in Midtown tomorrow, August 21, from 8:00-10:00 a.m. and are looking forward to reengaging with everyone to [...]

Rice Alliance Event Calendar 2008-2009

The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is a flagship Houston program designed to showcase both technologies and entrepreneurs from the Greater Houston Region through educational workshops, venture forums and the national recognized Business Plan Competition. Every event is well attended and manages to attract the best and brightest minds year after year.

I recognize that [...]

We’re Getting a Facelift…Now We Need a New Face

So we are deep into the site redesign and I figured a new logo would be warranted as well. Our current logo leaves much to be desired and I thought instead of having one person focus on it, I’d open it up to the entire creative community of Houston.

So if you want to take a [...]

Why Aren’t There More Prizes in Science?

Graham Randall is a regular contributor to Startup Houston on the topics of biotech, life sciences and entrepreneurship.

Newt Gingrich recently wrote an editorial in the WSJ [subscription required] calling for greater use of prizes to solve the world’s problems. Regardless of what you think about Newt’s politics, it’s difficult to deny that the current grants-based [...]

BarCamp Houston 2008: I Am Still Exhausted

If you did not get a chance to attend the happy hour at Caroline Collective Friday night or BarCamp Houston on Saturday at the Houston Technology Center, you missed out on two fantastic opportunities to socialize, collaborate and gain an education on why Forbes magazine calls Houston a, “bubbling entrepreneurial tech scene.” Here are some [...]

Houston’s Dearth of Biotech Entrepreneurship

This post comes to us courtesy of Graham Randall, Ph.D., MBA, who has agreed to become a regular contributor to Startup Houston and will write on the topic of biotech, life sciences and entrepreneurship. Graham is a Ph.D. candidate in molecular biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine where he was a fellow of the [...]