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In light of the article written in the Houston Chronicle by Purva Patel last week: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/6808624.html# some other news has come out about the Houston mobile development scene. Anthony Broussard gave a great interview about his company Quantum Potato to the BusinessMakers radio show. You can hear the entire interview here http://www.thebusinessmakers.com/episodes/shows/2010/january-2010/episode-240/anthony-broussard.html He talks about how his [...] Join us as we LiveBlog the TiE Online Marketing Panel from the Briar Club. [This is a Guest Post by Kumar - I edited it slightly for some factual corrections and of course to make myself look better - Marc] — In the summer of 2009 from June-August I worked at the Houston Technology Center as an intern. I saw new technologies, worked with a talented staff, and most importantly learned [...] Purva Patel, one of the journalists at the Houston Chronicle who ‘get it’ about emerging businesses recently wrote up an interview she had with Dennis Murhpree of Murphree Venture Partners: http://www.chron.com/disp/discuss.mpl/business/6489409.html#
Mr. Murphree is stalwart advocate of the VC community in Houston and has taught investment management at the University of St. Thomas [...]
I found out today via Marc Nathan and also via Dwight Silverman’s TechBlog that Guy Kawasaki is coming to the Houston Technology Center to speak about The Art of The Start on Thursday, April 24th at 7pm. I can’t tell you how excited I was to hear this news as this is obviously the type of speaker that [...] April 2nd, 2008 | Category: Conversations, Events, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews, VC and Angel Funding |
 2 comments The Houston Business Journal put together a great interview with Blair Garrou of DFJ Mercury on what he thinks are some of the hot areas for investment and growth in Houston. Here are a few excerpts I found interesting. “Blair Garrou, managing partner of Houston venture capital firm DFJ Mercury, is bullish on the Bayou City as fertile [...] January 17th, 2008 | Category: Conversations, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews |
Leave a comment Several months back, I met George Giannukos and Thomas Marriott, local entrepreneurs from Texas A&M who started a new gaming venture called GameWager. GameWager is an online, matchmaking platform that enables members of all skill sets to win cash/fun prizes & recognition competing in the most popular PC games online. They host pay-to-play (poker style), [...]
Recently myself and Josh Tabin interviewed the founders of FireSabre Consulting who have built a business in Second Life constructing virtual environments for businesses, schools and nonprofits. The founders, Fred Fuchs and Kevin Shaum, who go by their avatar names of Gus Pliskin and Tinker Lafollette, are based here in Houston and took us for [...] December 31st, 2007 | Category: Conversations, General, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews, Video |
2 comments When I left my last position and was waffling on starting a consulting practice, everyone told me to talk with Ernie Rapp (LinkedIn, Facebook). At the time, Ernie had his own consulting practice here in Houston for over 5 years and had made a wonderful go at it. We bacme instant friends and have kept [...] 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 |
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