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Help Tapja win the Global Startup Battle

Houston Startup Weekend was last weekend and of the 12 teams that pitched, the winning teams were:

#1 Tapja
An interactive childrens E-book for iPad

#2 MyFlashSpy
A flash sale aggregator. All flash sale sites in one place. Spy on your favorite brands, spy on over 85+ flash sale sites. All customized to you.

#3 TalkTheatre
TalkTheatre is a service that [...]

Meet the Houston Startup Weekend teams

This weekend’s Startup Weekend has been an incredibly exciting event. As I write this, teams are frantically preparing their presentations for their pitches this evening. Video of the presentations will be made available after the event, but until then here is some information on the startups that are participating.

Jobbawalkie
Hype local job searching using Google / [...]

Unity 3D Meetup

This is a Guest post from Daniel Wu – a startup entrepreneur who is using the Unity 3D engine for some very interesting rapid prototyping applications.

Daniel Wu writes:

Unity3D Houston hosts a showing at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Tuesday 11/15 at 7 pm to view an immersive simulation of ancient Mayan culture used [...]

Prepping for StartupWeekend

Three great posts about the Startup Weekend experience:

Javid Jamae: http://javidjamae.com/2011/11/05/startup-weekend-a-schedule-and-plan-of-action/

Austin Fatheree: http://www.rivvir.com/startup_weekend_toolbox/

The Squarefoot: http://www.thesquarefoot.com/houston/startup-weekend-houston-entrepreneurs-kauffman-foundation

After reading these, how could you not want to participate?

RedHouse Associates Launches

There’s a new player in the Houston investment scene and they launched in a big way last Thursday night.

RedHouse hosted a party at their offices at 802 Lovett that featured beer, food, Lemonade Day (they raised $7000 from the party-goers, that was split with a group supporting Navy SEALS), and more beer along with over [...]

Global Entrepreneur Week

Global Entrepreneur Week starts today. Originally started by the Kauffman Foundation in 2007, it’s expanded to 118 countries this year on six continents. The point of the program is to celebrate entrepreneurship in all of its forms. It’s also one of the reasons that so many StartupWeekend‘s are happening around this time. Use this initiative [...]

Startup Weekend - Nov 18-20

Startup Weekend is just a few days away and you really have no excuse not to register. It’s the single best place to find co-founders, coders and designers interested in startups in a single place. The organizers have taken great pains to make sure that the program is balanced between work and keynote speakers and [...]