The good news is the house was full and the companies stellar, but unfortunately, last Wednesday was Start Houston’s last Demo Day for the year. Here is a quick rundown of each of the presenting companies, presented in no particular order.
Open Houston’s first big project promises to be a transformative one. Last night at the Houston Central Library, the volunteer group articulated a new vision for our libraries. Inside the extra and unused space of each library, Open Houston and library staff are planning to create collaborative makerspaces for the general public to share knowledge,…
For the Pythoneer who is dissatisfied with run of mill financial apps, Glen, head of PyHou, has the perfect solution, “Build your own.” On Github, Glen has posted the code for a client to access Intuit’s treasure trove of financial data. After creating a developer account, making a client and uploading a self-generated x509 certificate,…
After open coworking at Start Houston yesterday, I stuck around for the Houston Unity Developers Group. The guys from Qualcomm dropped by (bearing delicious pizza from Bombay Pizza) and showed off some demos of their augmented reality SDK, Vuforia, in action.
The people from NetSquared and Code for America have launched a new initiative to help make Houston a better place to live and work. Called Open Houston, it aims to support public sector innovation in the city by building useful community apps on top of the city’s data and by leveraging public support to build…
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If you are like me, always scrounging around for your next fix from the Houston Startup and Entrepreneurship scene, then you will enjoy these 5 potentially great events. I have scoured the web (mostly Meetup.com and Facebook) to find the best, most interesting and sweet things to do this October.*
I first learned of ATDynamics’ Trailer Tail after they won the 2006 Rice Business Plan Competition (as Advanced Transit Enterprises). I had not heard or seen anything about them until this afternoon when I was driving home, and I finally spotted one of the gizmos in the wild.
As great as Houston may be, for a city trying to cultivate a vibrant startup culture, it still lacks three key ingredients for innovation success. The capstone panel at the MBA Council of Houston’s Impact Investing Seminar discussed in-depth what we as Houstonians must build over the next 20 years if we want to become…
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