This Wednesday, we had our second OKC happy hour! Featured companies at this Happy Hour were SIVI and Zalongo. Featured companies have the opportunity to take the floor to give a short presentation about their company and answer questions from the crowd! Ashok Kamal (left), CEO, SIVI
VentureSpur 2013 startup, Zalongo.com, has been featured by the YoungUpstarts.com entrepreneurship blog. Zalongo is a private family and small group-oriented social network with a free version and premium version, and with web and mobile versions. The article emphasizes the benefit of privacy provided by the
We had an awesome Happy Hour this past Wednesday in Dallas at the DEC! Two of our accelerator companies SPARXlife & TogaBox did short presentations over their startup and took questions from the crowd! We had a great turnout for the event! Check out these fun photos!
This was too good not to share – excellent practical example of how attorneys can ruin entrepreneurial efforts, sometimes without realizing what they’re doing – from the Legal Productivity Blog (supporting RocketMatter, firm management software): http://www.legalproductivity.com/practice-management/the-worst-business-lawyer/
How determined are your employees to get their job done? Here’s a real, practical case study from today. I needed to send two checks to a company. One check now and one check a couple of months ago. One wrinkle: The envelopes are going to
VentureSpur co-founder and Board Member, David Matthews, spoke on the status of accelerators in Texas as part of the Southwest Venture Forum’s Sept. 12th event at the Dallas Country Club. The event’s expert panel also included Kirk Coburn of SURGE Accelerator in Houston, Hubert Zajicek of Health Wildcatters,
VentureSpur 2012 startup, GoldFire Studios, has appeared in the latest edition of Inc. Magazine with an interview with founder, James Simpson, discussing where he goes to find inspiration. Simpson finds inspiration for the design of his award-winning online games at a downtown Oklahoma City park:
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,
VentureSpur Co-Founder & Managing Director, Kraettli Epperson, is at the Rice Alliance’s 11th Annual Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum in Houston! Mr. Epperson has been in Houston over the last few days visiting with several of the promising ventures at the largest energy and clean technology venture capital
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