Hal Gatewood is a dynamic, Oklahoma-City base software developer and entrepreneur: Inside the VentureSpur Experience: An Interview with Zalongo’s Hal Gatewood. What was your favorite part of the VentureSpur Accelerator experience? Hal: I was part of the JumpStart program, so I got to be in
Another VentureSpur mentor interview. Mike Sitarzewski has built multiple tech companies: Inside the VentureSpur Experience: An Interview with Mentor Michael Sitarzewski. Why did you become a mentor for startups in the entrepreneurial community in Dallas? Mike: I moved to Dallas in 1989 and started building
As part of the Rice Alliance Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum, we got to hear a panel discussion from the venture capital investment arms of several major oil and gas companies, including Mark Blackwell of Cenovus Energy Venture Group, Issam Dairanieh of BP Ventures,
I got the chance this week to represent VentureSpur at Rice University’s annual Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum. Check it out: The VentureSpur firm was asked to participate in “VC office hours” on September 11, and yours truly acted as a judge for their forum! From the VentureSpur
I enjoyed judging the RBPC this year and helping to select the Trailblazer Capital special prize winner. I wrote the experience up in my previous blog post. Check it out. The post includes these pieces of take-away advice for business plan competitors: The take-away for
I just spent three days judging the 2013 Rice Business Plan Competition at Rice University in Houston, Texas as part of the team sent from Trailblazer Capital. The RBPC is the largest and most rewarding business plan competition in the world, providing teams with more than $1.5MM in investment prizes, including this year
VentureSpur has hit upon a novel way to pick one of its accelerator Finalists: Crowd Favorite Finalist Contest: Win a VentureSpur Finalist Slot on Twitter! | VentureSpur Accelerator. VentureSpur has decided to award a slot as a VentureSpur Finalist to the crowd favorite on Twitter! Whichever company
Ultra-cool friend, former fantastic business partner and all-around Green Energy dude, Bryan Hassin, (@guido23) gave a TEDx talk on entrepreneurship as seen through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey. No kidding. This is must-watch TV:
Cool SXSW talk from my buddy, @wubbahed (Will Turnage), VP Technology & Invention at RG/A. How cool a title is that?! And he gets to give talks about brainstorming at SXSW! Description from Will: "They finally posted the audio recording of my SXSW talk this
Here’s the latest entrepreneurial interview from a VentureSpur mentor, Renzi Stone. Renzi is the CEO of Saxum Strategic Communications in Oklahoma City. Saxum is the leading integrated full-service communications firm in the region, and Renzi has interesting things to say. Mentor Renzi Stone, Chairman and