StartupHouston Event Photos

Tara Hunt on Caroline Collective roof Matt Wettergreen & Tara Hunt Tito's Handmade Vodka Erica thanking sponsors at BarCampHouston2
View more photos >

StartupHouston Event Videos

StartupHouston Recommends These Books for Startups

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

Houston@SXSW 2010

Houston@SXSW tips and party

Houston iPhone Application Developers are Gaining Visibility

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 [...]

DFJMercury Funds Electronic Health Records Startup

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, [...]

Austin Ventures Office Hours - December 15th @CoffeeGroundz

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 [...]

It’s not about the design...it’s about the user experience

Angela Schmeidel Randall is the Founder & CEO of NormalModes, a company that helps businesses increase revenues and reduce costs by simplifying their interactions with customers over the Internet. Angela is a guest contributor to Startup Houston.

Over lunch recently, a colleague confessed that her design team didn’t believe in user-centered design or usability testing for [...]

SparkStart & Houston Startup Happy Hour

There is just one week left until the Microsoft BizSpark sponsored SparkStart event in Dallas, register here: http://sparkstart.eventbrite.com/

Christian Thilmany, (@uxarchitect) the User Experience Architect for Microsoft, is hosting the event and several Houston folks, including your favorite Network Partner (email mnathan – @- houstontech.org for details) will be panelists.

SparkStart is a full day of [...]

Facebook gets the Nut

NutshellMail receives funding and incubation services from Facebook

Capital Factory launches to help Startups

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.

HiMA April Luncheon

Time: April 1, 2009 from 11:15am to 1:15pm
Location: Maggiano’s Restaurant – Galleria Location
Street: 2019 Post Oak Blvd
City/Town: Houston, TX 77056
Website or Map: http://www.mapquest.com/map…
Contact Info: (713) 961-2700
Event Type: monthly, luncheon

Green Talk
Getting Skeptics to Buy Using Interactive Marketing Tactics

A growing population of environmentally conscious consumers is emerging from the convergence of environmental concern, energy prices and limitless [...]

CareFlash Starring Leatherman

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfA3a3iYJ2E[/youtube]

A little bird told me about this lighthearted view of what CareFlash does that was created by some young fans…social media is a funny thing, but not nearly as funny as Leatherman. What I find odd is that his beard disappears and then reappears in different clips. Love it!