Wednesday, 17th of September 2008 at 06:18:28 PMHurricane 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 [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] February 7th, 2008 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, NanoTech, VC and Angel Funding |
 One comment 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 [...] January 19th, 2008 | Category: Energy, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment 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 [...] Houston Technology Center’s CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Application Deadline: 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 [...] November 20th, 2007 | Category: Energy, Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
One comment 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 [...] November 3rd, 2007 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews, NanoTech, VC and Angel Funding |
5 comments 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 September 27th, 2007 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment 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 [...] August 31st, 2007 | Category: Energy, Houston Venture Capitalists, VC and Angel Funding |
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