Wednesday, 17th of September 2008 at 06:18:28 PMHurricane Ike has given us a massive object lesson on the importance of implementing the late Rick Smalley’s vision of the Store-Gen Grid (SGG; graphic courtesy Wade Adams at Rice’s Smalley Institute) – a highly distributed network of granular electric production and storage. One of the elements of the SGG concept is a [...]
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Dr. Howard Schmidt is a native Texan, a long-time Houston resident and a serial entrepreneur. He grew up San Antonio and moved to Houston to attend Rice University, where he got a BS in electrical engineering in 1980, and then a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1986.  Since then he has been involved in [...] The Rice Alliance has gone and outdone themselves again by nearly doubling the amount of funds that will be awarded at this year’s Business Plan Competition. They will be awarding over $600,000 dollars in funds for approximately 36 different graduate teams from around the world, which enables them to lay claim to hosting “the largest and [...] February 7th, 2008 | Category: BioTech/Life Science, Energy, Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, IT and Web 2.0, NanoTech, VC and Angel Funding |
 One comment Updating a previous post… 7th Annual Rice Alliance Nanotechnology Venture Forum To register and more Information: click here WHY ATTEND? Hear renowned nanotechnology [...] The Rice Alliance has announced a date for the 2008 Nanotechnology Forum. It will be January 24, 2008 at the Jones School (McNair Hall) at Rice University (map here). Please mark your calendars for a mind blowing time. I went last year and was thoroughly impressed with the nanotech growth we have seen here in Houston. [...] December 5th, 2007 | Category: Events, Houston Venture Capitalists, NanoTech, VC and Angel Funding |
One comment 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 |
5 comments I had breakfast this morning with Stuart Page, CEO of Houston-based startup, GloriOil. I first noticed GloriOil after they announced an infusion of capital from their investors (see blog post from last week). Turns out that Stuart and I have some mutual friends so we met up today to chat. GloriOil is very interesting to me [...] The 6th Annual Rice Alliance Nanotechnolgy Venture Forum is just around the corner and will show off one of Houston’s key areas of strength. Last year, they had over 500 attendees and I hear that this year looks to be even bigger than last. According to the site… ” You should attend the forum if you [...] |
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