hschmidt 
Wednesday, 17th of September 2008 at 06:18:28 PM
Hurricane Ike has given us a massive object lesson on the importance of implementing the late Rick Smalley’s vision of the Store-Gen Grid (SGG; graphic courtesy Wade Adams at Rice’s Smalley Institute) – a highly distributed network of granular electric production and storage. One of the elements of the SGG concept is a [...]
hschmidt 
Thursday, 24th of July 2008 at 11:24:16 PM
Dr. Howard Schmidt is a native Texan, a long-time Houston resident and a serial entrepreneur. He grew up San Antonio and moved to Houston to attend Rice University, where he got a BS in electrical engineering in 1980, and then a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1986. Since then he has been involved in [...]
Josh Tabin 
Saturday, 23rd of February 2008 at 10:24:32 PM
The event has finally arrived and if you haven’t registered yet, you can here. This is the premiere conference on venture investing in energy technology and will have everyone who is anyone in attendance. I was speaking with Walter Ulrich of the HTC at Open Coffee this past Thursday and he was very excited about [...]
kurt 
Thursday, 7th of February 2008 at 12:02:37 AM
The Rice Alliance has gone and outdone themselves again by nearly doubling the amount of funds that will be awarded at this year’s Business Plan Competition. They will be awarding over $600,000 dollars in funds for approximately 36 different graduate teams from around the world, which enables them to lay claim to hosting “the largest and [...]
Josh Tabin 
Saturday, 19th of January 2008 at 03:18:51 PM
This past Friday morning I had the pleasure of getting out of bed early (again) to attend the Houston Technology Center’s Education Seminar Series on Raising Capital in Texas Today. Today’s session was entitled, “Raising Funds for Growth: Series B and Beyond“. The moderator for the event was Scott Crist of Aegis Texas Ventures. Our [...]
Josh Tabin 
Wednesday, 19th of December 2007 at 04:14:56 PM
We first mentioned the call for presenters here. The deadline for application has been extended. Executive Summary must be submitted no later than: Friday, January 11, 2008, 10:00 AM CST. In addition, the keynote speaker will be John Hofmeister, President of Shell Oil Company.
I have uploaded the call for presenters here. This is a premiere event [...]
Josh Tabin 
Tuesday, 20th of November 2007 at 06:11:41 PM
Houston Technology Center’s
Fourth Annual Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference
March 6 & 7, 2008
Marriott Houston Westchase
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Application Deadline:
Monday, December 10, 2007
Houston Technology Center’s 4th annual Energy Technology Venture Capital Conference will bring together 30 of the most promising emerging energy technology companies with an audience of venture capitalists, private equity, angel and corporate investors and [...]
Josh Tabin 
Saturday, 3rd of November 2007 at 07:36:42 PM
When I first met Walter Ulrich at a Houston Technology Center event, what I gathered most about him was that this guy was the real deal: a true “pocket protector” geek in the most admiring sense of the word. Ulrich has been a pioneer in the information technology sector for almost 40 years. In the [...]
Josh Tabin 
Thursday, 27th of September 2007 at 09:04:40 AM
Today is the 5th Annual Rice Alliance Energy & Clean Technology Venture Forum held at the Jones School (McNair Hall) , Rice University. Here is an overview of the event:
One of the largest energy venture forums in North America
Emerging energy technology companies will showcase their new ventures in front of an audience of 400-500 investors [...]
Josh Tabin 
Friday, 31st of August 2007 at 07:28:03 AM
Energy Ventures announced today the opening of two new offices for the firm, Aberdeen and Houston. This Norwegian venture capital firm invests in “game changing” technologies in the upstream oil and gas markets, focused primarily on exploration and production activity.
There is some familial aspect to this announcement as well. Former president of the Houston Technology [...]
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