Another Texas VC

Earlier today my good friend Marc Nathan put up a blog post pointing out that Houston has a vibrant research scene. The post was a response to my post about Houston’s dearth of research universities. The folks at UH strongly agree with my line of thinking in the form of their Tier One Initiative with some great [...]

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Every now and then I get dragged into a conversation where I am asked what Houston needs to jump into the big leagues of tech innovation. Thursday night at the Caroline Collective was no exception.   Before answering I always put out several disclaimers. Houston is home to several great tech companies and is home [...]

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Back in June I decided to buy a fridge for my new house. My house is in an older part of town, so I needed a ‘counter-depth’ model. My wife went to a local Best Buy which told her that counter depth fridges were seldom kept in local inventory and should be bought from BestBuy.com. [...]

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Absolutely nothing is the official line from the American pork lobby. They even got the recent ‘Swine Flu’ renamed H1N1 in the popular press to re-iterate the lack of linkage. To their credit, their underlying claim is very accurate. You aren’t going to get the flu from eating pork products. What their efforts miss, and [...]

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I am in the middle of buying a house in Houston and have come face to face with a frozen market. The concept is really simple. You think an asset you own is worth something; this is called ‘mark’. The market is only willing to pay something else; this is called ‘market’. Unless the owner [...]

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