Marc Nathan 
Monday, 14th of November 2011 at 01:28:28 PM
There’s a new player in the Houston investment scene and they launched in a big way last Thursday night.
RedHouse hosted a party at their offices at 802 Lovett that featured beer, food, Lemonade Day (they raised $7000 from the party-goers, that was split with a group supporting Navy SEALS), and more beer along with over [...]
Marc Nathan 
Wednesday, 19th of October 2011 at 10:09:49 AM
http://techcocktail.com/surge-accelerator-joins-techstars-network-startup-america-2011-10
SURGE ACCELERATOR JOINS THE TECHSTARS NETWORK AS PART OF STARTUP AMERICA
by: Monika Jansen
Houston-based SURGE, the country’s first and only seed accelerator that focuses excluusively on efficient energy software startups, has joined the TechStars Network in support of Startup America.
Kirk Coburn, Managing Director and co-founder of SURGE Accelerator, had this to say:
SURGE Accelerator was created to [...]
Marc Nathan 
Tuesday, 18th of October 2011 at 04:18:08 PM
This is a repost from August, but I know that Austin Ventures has just a few slots left for their Office Hours coming up next week at CoffeeGroundz. If you want a ‘low-impact’ way to speak to VC’s about your business, this is one of the best ways to do it. Don’t forget that you’re [...]
Marc Nathan 
Thursday, 15th of September 2011 at 08:25:24 AM
It’s finally here. A seed accelerator (similar to ycombinator, TechStars and Capital Factory) in Houston, Texas – the Energy Capital of the World, the program is designed to help emerging businesses accelerate their growth through an infusion of seed capital, an intense mentoring program and direct connections to industry insiders. Startups [...]
Marc Nathan 
Wednesday, 10th of August 2011 at 03:14:05 PM
Austin Ventures Entrepreneur Hours (AVEH): Submission Form & Dates
Calling all Texas Entrepreneurs, Austin Ventures Entrepreneur Hours (AVEH) is BACK and coming to a city near you!!!
Here is the schedule for our Fall sessions of AVEH:
Austin: September 29th
Houston: October 26th
Dallas: November 9th
For a quick overview of AVEH and tips on how to get the most out [...]
Marc Nathan 
Saturday, 27th of November 2010 at 10:31:21 AM
There are still two weeks left to register to attend what has become Houston’s single most important event for the technology startup community – the Rice IT/Web 2.0 Venture forum. This is where startups pitch deals and VC’s from all over the state come to tell us what they want to see. It’s [...]
Marc Nathan 
Wednesday, 17th of November 2010 at 06:56:20 PM
Article location:http://www.fastcompany.com/1702618/why-you-should-start-a-company-in-houston
November 15, 2010
Tags: Leadership, Innovation, Technology, Careers
Why You Should Start a Company in… Houston
By Laura Rich
It’s the U.S. energy capital. It was the home of Enron. And for the most part, those two facts reflect the scope of startups in Houston, Texas. Enron, before it began conducting massive accounting fraud, was innovative in its approach to energy. And thanks [...]
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 -Â 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, [...]
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