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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, [...] Just a reminder that we’ll be having our monthly Houston Startup Happy Hour tonight, May 7, from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. at Saute Bistro at 2303 Richmond Avenue. Hope to see y’all there! Contrary to popular belief, the last rule of BioCamp isn’t, “if this is your first BioCamp, you have to present.” We recognize that not everybody wants to get up in front of a crowd of people and start talking. That said, the format of BioCamp doesn’t work unless a non-trivial fraction of attendees volunteer to [...] BioCamp Houston is now just one month away! BioCamp is based on the BarCamp concept that has taken off in popularity among the IT crowd. It’s an “unconference.” There are no agendas or invited speakers. If you want to present something, you simply volunteer the morning of the conference by choosing a time and a [...] Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had the chance to see and critique a lot of early-stage company presentations. One criticism that comes up again and again is that scientist-entrepreneurs waste too much time talking about the details of their discovery and not enough time on the business opportunity. When you’re pitching to investors, [...] Graham Randall is a regular contributor to Startup Houston on the topics of biotech, life sciences and entrepreneurship. Do you need a Ph.D. to be a Biotech Entrepreneur? This seems to be a popular question these days, even though I think the answer is pretty obvious: No. There are lots of biotech entrepreneurs out there without Ph.Ds. [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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