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SXSW 2010 is upon us

Hopefully everyone that is going to SXSW has confirmed places to stay, picked panels and parties and broken in those comfortable shoes (can’t over emphasize that enough) and those that are staying here have unfollowed their Austin-bound friends and blocked the hashtag #SXSW for the next week.

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Three Tech Startup Events This Week (Plus a Bonus Event)

Even if you’re not planning on coming to Austin for SXSW, you should plan on coming to the Houston@SXSW Pre-party at Caroline Collective

Date: Tuesday March 9, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 9:30pm
Location: Caroline Collective 4820 Caroline Houston, Texas 77004
RSVP on Facebook

Since that starts at 6, you can then go to the monthly NetSquared meetup – generously sponsored [...]

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Tech Connection Event January 28, 2010

Houston is home to a number of organizations that offer the keys to building a successful technology company. Don’t miss your opportunity to learn about their plans for 2010. Startup Houston will be participating for the first time this year.

Tech Connection

Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Houstonian Hotel
Keynote by Michael Garfield
5:30 -8:30 pm

Pre-registration Jan. 22th: Tickets [...]

Houston iPhone Application Developers are Gaining Visibility

In light of the article written in the Houston Chronicle by Purva Patel last week: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/6808624.html# some other news has come out about the Houston mobile development scene.

Anthony Broussard gave a great interview about his company Quantum Potato to the BusinessMakers radio show. You can hear the entire interview here http://www.thebusinessmakers.com/episodes/shows/2010/january-2010/episode-240/anthony-broussard.html

He talks about how his [...]

BMC buys DFJMercury Funded Phurnace

While it’s neither of the two companies involved are actually ‘Houston Startups’, BMC is far from its startup days and Phurnace is based in Austin -  it was funded by DFJ Mercury – making it the Houston-based early stage Venture Capitalists first exit. It nice to see a win for the hometown team and this [...]

Answers.onstartups.com - Is Houston Good for Startups?

I got a email last night from a good friend and fellow Capital Factory mentor, Jason Cohen who writes one of the best blogs about startups, named A Smart Bear that has great posts like this and is also the cofounder of answers.onstartups.com along with startup rockstar Dharmesh Shah, the founder of HubSpot and author [...]

DFJMercury Funds Electronic Health Records Startup

Houston’s favorite venture capitalists are at it again, funding an Austin/Houston startup company in the very hot bio-informatics industry that marries software and healthcare.

Cgate Health creates software to provide simple, flexible and cost effective Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions. Unlike the current landscape of complex, incomplete and expensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, [...]

The Prodigal Son Returns (Again)

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, and recognized leader of the Wordpress revolution is coming back home to Houston for the holidays. He’s going to be giving the RefreshHouston talk tonight at Poplab’s new Westchase Technology Center. Around this time last year, Matt spoke at HTC to a huge crowd and gave them [...]

ChaiONE Hosting a Happy Hour on December 3rd

The company welcomes the Houston Digital Community to a happy hour in honor of the growing ChaiONE team:

Thursday, December 3, 2009
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Avant Garden
411 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77006
Facebook RSVP here

ChaiONE is a team of seasoned professionals that offer clients reliable and communication-oriented strategic advice and tactical implementation involving technology, design and user experience solutions, specializing in [...]