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Door64 Happy Hour - October 11 2011

I am happy to announce our next Houston Door64 Happy Hour in October! Please join us on Thursday TUESDAY, October 11th at 5:30pm at the BRIX Wine Celler in northwest Houston (across from HP)!

You can RSVP via the link below, and please invite your tech colleagues to also attend this free event! Food [...]

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TiE Texas Funding Forum

TiE is hosting another forum for new startups to pitch to qualified investors in a environment that is safe and effective.

Attendee registration is now OPEN!
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Time: 4pm – 7:30pm
Date: November 2, 2011
Location: Houston Technology Center, 410 Pierce Houston, TX 77002

Deadline for the executive summary submission is 11:30PM Friday, October 21st 2011.
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9th Annual Rice Alliance IT & Web Venture Forum Call for Speakers

9th Annual Information Technology & Web Venture Forum
Call for Presenters:  apply to present your entrepreneurial company to over 400 investors and industry leaders
Application Deadline: Friday, October 7, 2011,  5:00 pm
Event Date: December 8, 2011 – Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
The Rice Alliance is currently accepting applications from Information Technology and Web companies to present [...]

SchipulCon 2011

SCHIPULCON 2011

October 6-7
Norris Conference Centers at CityCentre
Houston, TX

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Schipul, The Web Marketing Company – helmed by none other the venerable startup champion Ed Schipul is putting on another design/technology/marketing event that is spanning two days at the beginning of October.

From the press release:

Focused around the central themes of Create, Profit and Reach, speakers such [...]

Chad Farrell on Surge Accelerator

Accelerator Discussion about Surge Accelerator for Startup Houston – by Chad Farrell (@cfar)
I thought I might add my unique perspective on the Surge Energy Technology Accelerator program  given that my first startup NetworkOil was in the Digital Oilfield (a great web 1.0 term I have not heard since the internet boom of 1999) and my [...]

Surge Accelerator Launches

It’s finally here. A seed accelerator (similar to ycombinator, TechStars and Capital Factory) in Houston, Texas – the Energy Capital of the World, the program is designed to help emerging businesses accelerate their growth through an infusion of seed capital, an intense mentoring program and direct connections to industry insiders. Startups [...]

Houston Startup Facebook Group

A few startup community folks here in Houston have just launched a Facebook group for people to connect, ask and answer questions and generally be a part of the Houston Startup scene. The inspiration comes directly from the Austin Startup group that has become a very active forum in that community.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/155392461211573/

Here’s the link to retweet [...]

Houston Events

The second most frequent question I get asked from new entrepreneurs in Houston is how to ‘get involved’ with the tech/startup scene here. The first question is invariably “Is there a startup scene?” (YES!). The very best way to do anything is by showing up to places that attract like-minded people to meet, network and [...]