Marc Nathan 
Thursday, 7th of January 2010 at 10:25:51 AM
While it’s neither of the two companies involved are actually ‘Houston Startups’, BMC is far from its startup days and Phurnace is based in Austin -Â it was funded by DFJ Mercury – making it the Houston-based early stage Venture Capitalists first exit. It nice to see a win for the hometown team and this [...]
Marc Nathan 
Wednesday, 30th of December 2009 at 06:47:09 PM
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, [...]
Marc Nathan 
Monday, 16th of November 2009 at 09:00:26 AM
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 [...]
Marc Nathan 
Sunday, 2nd of August 2009 at 01:43:13 PM
Aziz Gilani, a local VC writes on his personal blog http://texvc.com/2009/08/02/what-houston-really-needs/about what he thinks Houston needs to compete and the main conclusion he comes up with is that we are suffering from a relative lack of engineering research at our universities. I consider Aziz a personal friend, and I helped plan the party that got [...]
Josh Tabin 
Monday, 6th of July 2009 at 02:56:50 PM
This beauty comes our way courtesy of Hall Martin, former executive director of the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) and current director of the Austin Entrepreneur Network. In this piece, Hall summarizes an interview with John Huston, who is the current president of the Angel Capital Association, in which he outlines the ten possible outcomes [...]
Marc Nathan 
Saturday, 20th of June 2009 at 09:16:44 AM
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 [...]
Marc Nathan 
Thursday, 4th of June 2009 at 03:29:14 PM
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 [...]
Marc Nathan 
Friday, 29th of May 2009 at 07:37:19 AM
NutshellMail receives funding and incubation services from Facebook
Marc Nathan 
Wednesday, 13th of May 2009 at 05:24:15 AM
An entrepreneur’s worst funding nightmare is to take money from someone who is an inexperienced angel investor.
Marc Nathan 
Saturday, 28th of March 2009 at 02:37:42 PM
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.
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