The Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship is soliciting applications for the I.T./Web 2.0 Venture Forum at Rice University on December 10.  Your early-stage company could be one of 50 companies invited to present, which is a great opportunity to gain recognition and establish connections with business leaders and investors.

Participants will receive high-level visibility within [...]

If you are a startup or working on one, try and make it to tonight’s happy hour at Caroline…they will be tremendous networking opportunities for you there…trust me. You don’t want to miss this ad-hoc gathering.

Have a happy 4th of July and a safe weekend!!! We’ll see everyone next month at a new location. More details to come next week.

UPDATE: Here are some videos from the event:

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/5174186[/vimeo]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/5294735[/vimeo]

This from Joao Prado Maia of the Houston PHP Users Group:

Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP language, will be in Houston in June and graciously volunteered to do a presentation to our group! Sorry about the last minute modification, but we will need to move our meeting from [...]

Check out the full interview here and be sure to make an effort to attend one of the BioWeekend events, BioCamp Houston ’09 in particular.

Startup Company Lawyer has a great post that breaks down the various elements of determining what kind of entity your startup should operate within. Great read from a great blog.

This coming Monday, February 16, SXSW Interactive is hosting a pre-party in Houston to bring together the emerging tech/Web 2.0/social media scene in our neck of the woods. the event will be from 7-9 pm at the House of Blues Foundation Room located at 1294 Caroline Street.

This is the first year that SXSWi is throwing [...]