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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 [...] November 27th, 2010 | Category: Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, Rice Alliance, Support Local, Grow Together, VC and Angel Funding |
 Leave a comment Article location:http://www.fastcompany.com/1702618/why-you-should-start-a-company-in-houston Tags: Leadership, Innovation, Technology, Careers Why You Should Start a Company in… Houston 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 [...] November 17th, 2010 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Conversations, General, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, Interviews |
Leave a comment First time entrepreneur Muj Naqvi has launched a business that helps groups of people plan and book travel through a Facebook app. The idea is that groups – whether it be families, fraternities or bachelor parties have a very hard time coordinating and paying for travel, so why not use Facebook’s built-in social collaboration functions [...]
Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship One of the biggest individual events for Houston-based early stage technology startups is the 8th Annual Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Venture forum being held on December 9th. This is a perfect venue to hone your pitch skills and rub elbows with fellow entrepreneurs – not to mention the Who’s [...] 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 [...] August 31st, 2010 | Category: Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment Houston-bred startup founders Mark Schmulen and David Lyman sold their web-based aggregation tool, NutshellMail to email giant Constant Contact: Press Release I’ve spoken with Mark and he named a few Houston-based advisors and investors, specifically Phil Fraher, a seasoned CEO and now a special advisor to the Houston Technology Center, Andrew Clark also an Executive-in-Residence [...] Houston@SXSW tips and party March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: 2010, Events, party, SXSW, sxswi | Category: Events, IT and Web 2.0, SXSW |
2 comments 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 [...] 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, [...] December 30th, 2009 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
Leave a comment 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 [...] November 16th, 2009 | Tags: vc events | Category: Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, VC and Angel Funding |
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