Saturday, 3rd of November 2007 at 07:36:42 PMWhen 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 [...]
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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 A few weeks ago I had the chance to have coffee with Blair Garrou of DFJ Mercury. For those of you who do not know Blair, you should. Blair was one of the individuals instrumental in the formation and development of both the Houston Angel Network and the Houston Technology Center where he served as [...] October 28th, 2007 | Category: General, Houston Venture Capitalists, Interviews, VC and Angel Funding |
6 comments I had an opportunity to catch up with Kala Marathi, Managing Director of the Houston Angel Network recently. Here are some excerpts from our chat: Josh: Can you give me a little history behind the beginnings of HAN to today? Kala: The Houston Angel Network was founded in 2001 by prominent angel investors and business leaders in [...] October 22nd, 2007 | Category: General, Houston Venture Capitalists, Interviews, VC and Angel Funding |
13 comments  We were very excited to learn that StartupHouston was featured in an article about StartupWeekend Houston in last Friday’s Houston Business Journal, however it appears that they gave us too much credit. While it is true that StartupHouston helped to promote the event, participated in the event, and helped to even find sponsors for the event, the main credit [...] October 15th, 2007 | Category: Events, General, Houston OpenCoffee Club, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews, Startup Weekend Houston |
One comment Speaking of OpenCoffee Club, at last month’s get together we brought our video camera and let people there give us their elevator pitch. Two companies took us up on our offer:
Misty Khan with Advena Artemis told us about her company and the benefits of their HuntressPro CRM product. A contact management tool that operates with [...] October 9th, 2007 | Category: Events, General, Houston OpenCoffee Club, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews |
2 comments Well, it took longer than I wanted to get this together, but after wrestling with Ulead’s Video Studio 11+ for over a week, I have finally put together a template that makes it easy to output and upload videos. So here we go, the first of a few more videos that we have from the [...] October 8th, 2007 | Category: Events, Houston OpenCoffee Club, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews, Startup Weekend Houston |
One comment I had the pleasure of meeting with the two founders of WHAMtextâ„ this morning, Jeff Lerner and Matt Whitney. The company offers on demand text message coupons to users of their service. The premise here is that this is demand based so there is no “opt-in†requirements which will you get bombarded by SMS spam. Here’s [...] If you’ve been to an OpenCoffee event recently you may have met Misty Khan and learned about her new sales contact management software, Huntress Pro. If you are a networking fiend like I am and are tied to Microsoft Outlook, you will appreciate this new release that addresses the shortcomings of Outlook. I had a chance [...] |
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