Marc Nathan 
Tuesday, 31st of August 2010 at 09:44:08 AM
Bryan Jowers, the CEO of Houston-based startup Giftiki has (reluctantly) started a blog at bryan.giftiki.com about his experiences in the new Seed Accelerator Brandery in Cincinnati, which is supported by Houston VC firm, DFJMercury. Follow him and his business partner Justin Stanislaw to gain some insight into the process and be ready to welcome [...]
Marc Nathan 
Thursday, 7th of January 2010 at 10:25:51 AM
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 [...]
Marc Nathan 
Wednesday, 30th of December 2009 at 06:47:09 PM
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, [...]
Marc Nathan 
Monday, 16th of November 2009 at 09:00:26 AM
Dan Doman the Director of Business Development at Austin Ventures is bringing his team down from Austin to hold the first ‘AV Entrepreneur Hours‘ in Houston on December 15th. He’s setting up shop at the Houston Startup scene’s favorite meeting place:
CoffeeGroundz 2503 Bagby Houston, Texas 77006 in Mid Town.
Dan is a very accessible guy [...]
Marc Nathan 
Sunday, 2nd of August 2009 at 01:43:13 PM
Aziz Gilani, a local VC writes on his personal blog http://texvc.com/2009/08/02/what-houston-really-needs/about what he thinks Houston needs to compete and the main conclusion he comes up with is that we are suffering from a relative lack of engineering research at our universities. I consider Aziz a personal friend, and I helped plan the party that got [...]
Marc Nathan 
Wednesday, 13th of May 2009 at 05:24:15 AM
An entrepreneur’s worst funding nightmare is to take money from someone who is an inexperienced angel investor.
Marc Nathan 
Saturday, 28th of March 2009 at 02:37:42 PM
Capital Factory (http://www.capitalfactory.com) is a collection of successful high-tech entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts who are banding together to provide cash, services and most importantly, mentorship to qualified startup companies.
kurt 
Tuesday, 3rd of June 2008 at 03:36:47 PM
Startup Houston and the Houston Technology Center are proud to present
The June Houston Startup Happy Hour.
Open Call for Demos! Show up and Show Off!
The June Houston Startup Happy Hour features an open call for any startups who want to demo their sites to just show up and demo. We will have an area in [...]
kurt 
Wednesday, 30th of April 2008 at 06:06:33 AM
Startup Houston and the Houston Technology Center are proud to present
The May Houston Startup Happy Hour.
Demo by Strongroom Solutions
The May Houston Startup Happy Hour features a live presentation of StrongRoom Solutions. StrongRoom Solutions offers a B2B service called the Payables Lockbox that is an online bill-pay service that lets business customers [...]
kurt 
Tuesday, 8th of April 2008 at 11:10:15 PM
We had a great time at the April Houston Startup Happy Hour this past Thursday with the JamsBio launch. The turnout was greater than we expected and filled the entire bar area (see photos and video below). We went with a different venue (The Tasting Room) and format (Demos + Networking) for this [...]
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