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January 19, 2012

Client & Graduate News

IT Client YouData name on Austin Chamber's 2011 A-List
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"In efforts to increase the visibility of some of Austin’s great regional technology startups seeking funding, the Austin Chamber created the Austin A-List. The Austin A-List is a concept taken from a well-known Hollywood project list started in 2005 named The Black List, which sprouted from Leonardo DiCaprio’s film production company, which sought great screenplays in need of producing.
Just as the Black List has clearly become the “go to” source for new projects by interested investors and production executives, the Austin A-List hopes to become an easy source for tech startup investors."
More Information & Full List
Upcoming Events
Intro to Entrepreneurship NASA/JSC: Introduction to Entrepreneurship

presented by:
HTC & Gulf Coast RCIC


January 25
JSC Gilruth Center
8:00am-4:30pm

Registration: $25
Learn what it takes to turn your ideas and expertise
into technology-driven companies.  
Preparing a Business Plan
Selecting the Proper Business Structure & Form of Ownership
Financial Assumptions and Projections
Marketing Now: A Basic Building Block, Not a Luxury
Capital Sources
Resources for Entrepreneurs & HTC Overview


Welcome:
●  Paul Frison, Executive Vice Chairman,
Houston Technology Center

● David Leestma, Director, Technology Transfer & Commercialization Office NASA/JSC
●  Walter Ulrich, President & CEO, Houston Technology Center

Speakers & Presenters:
● Amir Abileah, Vice President, EpiladyUSA, Inc.
Tom Kraft, Ph.D., Director Technology Ventures Development, Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship, Rice University
●  Steven González, Deputy, Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office, NASA/JSC  & Loaned Executive, Houston Technology Center
●  Deborah Mansfield, Director of Life Sciences Acceleration, Houston Technology Center & Associate Director, Gulf Coast RCIC
● 
Mary Helen O’Leary, CFO, Sternhill Partners
●  Bob Prochnow, CIO, Houston Technology Center & Director, Gulf Coast RCIC
●  Paul Pryzant, Partner, Burleson LLP


Tech Champs Meeting
Featuring:
Tech Connection
Presented by 
Oracle


Co-Sponsor
GHP

CONNECTION
♦SUPPORT ♦COMMUNICATION ♦RECOGNITION
Houston is home to a number of organizations that offer the keys to building a successful technology company.

Don’t miss your opportunity to learn about them and their plans for 2012.

BioHouston
Greater Houston Partnership
Houston Angel Network
Houston Technology Center
MIT Enterprise Forum of Texas
Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship
SURGE
TeXchange
TiE - Houston
University of Houston Small Business Development Center

Light Breakfast and Networking
7:15 - 7:45 a.m.

Presentations
7:45 - 9:00 a.m.

$25 Registration

2012 Tech Champ Membership Applications Now Available!

Learn  to become a better coach & maximize your value to clients
NBIA’s Coaching Clinic®
Feb. 23-24

HTC Conference Center

This intensive two-day clinic will feature a new model for coaching entrepreneurs adapted for incubator managers from materials developed by Corporate Coach U. ation industry veteran and Coaching Clinic Licensed Facilitator David Terry, the course will give you an opportunity to practice coaching techniques and work through real-life scenarios. It will help you become a dynamic leader and inspiration to all of your clients – even the “difficult” ones – and motivate them to new levels of success.

More Information & Registration
NBIA Sponsored by
Osha Liang


Are you an Oil and Gas Technology Company that needs CAPITAL?

HTC and the Oiltech Investment Network have partnered to present an

Energy Technology Investor Forum
Focusing on upstream oil and gas technologies

March 22, 2012
HTC Conference Center

The forum will provide emerging oil and gas technology companies the opportunity to present to an exclusive room of venture capital, private equity, angel investors and industry representatives and will include private one-on-one meetings with upstream venture capital companies.

To be considered to present, please contact Meghan Smith at msmith@HoustonTech.org, or call 713-658-1750.

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HTC Insider & Community Events
Welcome to HTC's Newest EIR, Kim Evans!
Kim Evans Kim has twenty years of operational and technical experience most recently as the CEO for Secure Vantage Technology, Inc. where Kim was responsible for leading the product directions and business strategies for Secure Vantage Technologies. As an executive and senior manager, She established a track record for growing successful companies and product lines by creating, implementing and executing strategies that inspire genius, create prosperity and increase the economic energy of communities.
She lead teams to successfully execute operational, R&D, sales, marketing, business development, acquisition and integration strategies for large and start-up companies such as Microsoft, BMC Software, Covasoft and Tidal software.
She was named one of the "Top Twenty Women in Technology” in Houston, Texas and one of the "Ten Brightest Rising Technology Stars" in Austin, Texas. Kim was co-founder of Houston Executive Women in Technology and the think tank and business information source Power Shift. She co-chaired the Mayor’s Women in Technology 2000 conference, in Houston, Texas. Kim currently serves on several boards. Kim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Design from Wayne State University.

HATCH
Do you have ideas for novel technologies that will change IT, healthcare, energy, aerospace or nanotech? HATCH is looking for companies to participate in its pitch competition at the SXSW Startup Village in March.

Visit www.hatchpitch.com to learn more about HATCH and how to apply.


marketing edge
February 14
Hyatt Regency Houston

AMA Houston is bringing together some of the best national and local minds to share their thoughts on what’s on the horizon in marketing. Panelists, presenters and keynote speakers will discuss what's ahead and what to watch out for long before we even see it coming. www.MarketingEdge2012.com

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