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It’s not about the design...it’s about the user experience

Angela Schmeidel Randall is the Founder & CEO of NormalModes, a company that helps businesses increase revenues and reduce costs by simplifying their interactions with customers over the Internet. Angela is a guest contributor to Startup Houston.

Over lunch recently, a colleague confessed that her design team didn’t believe in user-centered design or usability testing for [...]

Business-2-Green Professional Networking & Collaboration

Into the Green Scene? Then get connected at a B2G Event

B2G (Business-2-Green) is a professional networking group developed by forGreen Marketing & Design. The intention of B2G is to provide a safe and inviting environment where green companies (i.e., sell green products/services), hybrid green companies (i.e., not sell green products/services but adopt green [...]

How to uncover and secure the right PR support for your company

Suzanne Tormollen of Atingo Public Relations is a 13 year PR veteran of the tech scene who has worked with many venture-backed companies in the Austin and Houston areas.  You can view her work history at www.atingo.com.  Suzanne is a new contributor to Startup Houston.

Ok. You’ve secured funding; created a solid leadership team; [...]

HiMA April Luncheon

Time: April 1, 2009 from 11:15am to 1:15pm
Location: Maggiano’s Restaurant – Galleria Location
Street: 2019 Post Oak Blvd
City/Town: Houston, TX 77056
Website or Map: http://www.mapquest.com/map…
Contact Info: (713) 961-2700
Event Type: monthly, luncheon

Green Talk
Getting Skeptics to Buy Using Interactive Marketing Tactics

A growing population of environmentally conscious consumers is emerging from the convergence of environmental concern, energy prices and limitless [...]

Rice Alliance Event Calendar 2008-2009

The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is a flagship Houston program designed to showcase both technologies and entrepreneurs from the Greater Houston Region through educational workshops, venture forums and the national recognized Business Plan Competition. Every event is well attended and manages to attract the best and brightest minds year after year.

I recognize that [...]

Need Consulting Work? Consider a Student.

Earlier this year, I was invited to College Station to judge an MBA Technology Transfer Challenge hosted by Texas A&M’s Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship. While there, I met several students who were part of an amazing project through the Mays MBA program, Aggies in Business (AiB). AiB is a corporation managed [...]

Houston Lacking in Sufficient Brainpower Study Claims

A recent bizjournals study that ranks the brainpower levels of America’s 100 largest metropolitan areas places Houston 83rd with a brainpower index of 41.05. Madison, Wisconsin topped the list with an index of 57.80. Washington and San Jose were right behind Madison. Washington boasts the nation’s largest share of adults with advanced degrees, 22.2%, while [...]

Constant Contact is in H-Town to Show off their Email Marketing Service

I received an email earlier today from Julie Niehoff of Constact Contact informing me that they are having a lunch-n-learn at the UofH Small Business Development Center on how effective ways of using their email marketing service.  Constant Contact is one of the better known email marketing services out there so if you are looking for [...]

Life Sciences Entrepreneurial Management Certificate Program

The Houston area is emerging as a center for the life sciences industry. Numerous start-up companies have emerged in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and telemedicine. This is generating a demand for leaders with a background in both entrepreneurship and the life sciences. To educate these leaders, Rice University Executive Education, the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, and [...]