Recent Posts Tagged With 'nanotech'

• Nano-Storage, the Store-Gen Grid and Hurricane Ike

  Posted on Wednesday September 17th, 2008 at 18:18 in energy, nanotech, add new tag

  Hurricane 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 ...

• Texas-Sized Nanotechnology

  Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 23:24 in energy, nanotech

  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 c...

• Rice Alliance hosts largest Business Plan Competition in the World

  Posted on Thursday February 7th, 2008 at 00:02 in nanotech, it and web 2.0, houston venture capitalists, vc and angel funding, biotech life science

  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 ...

• Update: Registration Open for 2008 Nanotechnology Venture Forum

  Posted on Tuesday December 11th, 2007 at 12:43 in nanotech, vc and angel funding

  Updating a previous post… 7th Annual Rice Alliance Nanotechnology Venture Forum Event Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008 Rice University, McNair Hall, Jones Graduate School of Management 9:00 am to 5:00 pm - Program 5:00 pm - Networking Receptio...

• Rice Alliance Nanotechnology Venture Forum - Dates Announced

  Posted on Wednesday December 5th, 2007 at 16:30 in nanotech, houston venture capitalists, vc and angel funding

  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 thorou...

• Interview with Walter Ulrich, President and CEO of the Houston Technology Center

  Posted on Saturday November 3rd, 2007 at 20:36 in biotech, interviews, nanotech, it and web 2.0, houston venture capitalists, vc and angel funding

  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 ...