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[This is a Guest Post by Kumar - I edited it slightly for some factual corrections and of course to make myself look better - Marc] — In the summer of 2009 from June-August I worked at the Houston Technology Center as an intern. I saw new technologies, worked with a talented staff, and most importantly learned [...] Into the Green Scene? Then get connected at a B2G Event B2G (Business-2-Green) is a professional networking group developed by forGreen Marketing & Design. The intention of B2G is to provide a safe and inviting environment where green companies (i.e., sell green products/services), hybrid green companies (i.e., not sell green products/services but adopt green [...] For those that don’t know, South by Southwest (also known as SXSW) is a two week event held in Austin during Spring Break that is two parts conference, two parts pub crawl and two parts social experiment. SXSW marries the largest number of live music acts in the world, movie premiers and of special note [...] Just a reminder that the Houston Startup Scene isn’t all business: Saturday, August 15th 7pm Caroline Collective with ROFLCon, Schipul the Web Marketing Company, and St. Arnold’s Brewery proudly present Information Superhighway: The Down South Edition, a Houston tech meetup. Information Superhighway is the new Houston gathering for hackers, activists, artists, [...] Houston Startup Happy Hour Thursday, August 6 6pm Berryhill’s Baja Grill http://www.twitter.com/berryhilllove 1717 Post Oak Blvd, Houston, TX 77056 This is the ‘official’ first Thursday Houston Startup Happy Hour that we’re having at a new venue, Berryhill’s near the Galleria (http://berryhillbajagrill.com) thanks to our friends at http://www.digitallabz.com. It will also serve as the kickoff event to the [...] What luck! My anniversary post coincides with a discussion about Houston’s startup culture. — Graham Randall Seven years ago this week, I declared IT dead and moved from Silicon Valley to Houston. Of course, it didn’t happen that suddenly. I’d come to the conclusion in the months following 9/11 that Silicon Valley wasn’t producing anything worthwhile, [...] Aziz Gilani, a local VC writes on his personal blog http://texvc.com/2009/08/02/what-houston-really-needs/about what he thinks Houston needs to compete and the main conclusion he comes up with is that we are suffering from a relative lack of engineering research at our universities. I consider Aziz a personal friend, and I helped plan the party that got [...] August 2nd, 2009 | Category: Conversations, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
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