Below is the video recording of the Online Office Hours from July 17, 2012, hosted by the Houston Lean Startup Circle and Startup Texas. Last night's session was our biggest one to date. We had 7 participants and a slew of great questions including: How do I sell convince businesses to partner with me on my B2C product? How do I find people to interview for customer validation? How do I start my own consult ...

Below is the video recording of the Online Office Hours from July 3, 2012, hosted by the Houston Lean Startup Circle and Startup Texas. The next one is scheduled for tomorrow, July 10, 2012 @9PM, so if you're interested in participating, register here: http://www.meetup.com/leanhouston/events/71994842/ Update: I forgot to mention that the mentors this time were me (Javid Jamae) and Bryan Guido Hassin, Profe ...

The Cleanweb Hackathon Texas is coming up and in anticipation of the event, the Cleanweb Texas Meetup Group is having a meetup to talk about Cleanweb and the Hackathon. What is Cleanweb? Cleanweb is about applying software solutions to resource problems-- in energy, water, waste, transit, food, air, and other areas-- by taking advantage of the powerful trends in cheap computing power, mobility, data availab ...

Looking for a cofounder? The Houston Lean Startup Circle is hosting a Cofounder Speed Dating event next week. Don't miss out! How does it work? Everybody who attends will rotate through to meet everybody else who has attended and have a brief conversation to pitch their business or business idea. Depending on how many people attend, each pair will meet for 2-5 minutes before switching to meet the next perso ...

The Houston Lean Startup Circle and Startup Texas are now hosting online office hours to benefit Houston startups. The office hours will be held every Tuesday starting at 9PM (CT) for 30 minutes. We will allow 3 people to join 1-2 mentors and ask questions. The questions should be something that can be asked and answered within 10 minutes. We don't guarantee that we'll give you the perfect answer, but we'll ...

Local startup, TheSquareFoot, just launched the beta of their site which makes it easy to find commercial real-estate listings and to connect directly with the landlords. TheSquareFoot's online marketplace makes commercial real-estate leasing easier by educating prospective tenants and connecting them with landlords, brokers, and the service and product providers necessary for finding and setting up the per ...

The June Houston Lean Startup Circle meetup was a great success, drawing a crowd of about 40 entrepreneurs, eager to learn about how they might leverage outsourcing to help get their startups to the next level. Our speaker (an co-organizer) Glenn Gutierrez gave a great overview on how to outsourcing design and development work online. He covered a few useful tools and platforms that people can use and provi ...

We interviewed Natlie Bryla of BestFriendBox who is in the GE OMD Incubator this summer. Natalie tells us a bit about her company, why she chose to join the incubator, and where she's going with her business. She also gives you a 20% discount on the BestFriendBox service... but, you'll have to watch the interview for the details. ...

The START coworking space is getting ready to launch and they are hosting a happy hour and a mobile-app hackathon to celebrate. The aptly name START Kickoff Appy Hour will be Friday June 8th from 6pm-9pm. The START Hackathon will be Saturday June 9th 7am - 7pm. The good news is that both events are completely free, and there are over $5,000 worth of prizes at the hackathon. But, there is one catch... you mu ...

Last night's Houston Lean Startup Circle meetup was a great success. The speaker was Thomas Knoll who was the co-founder of LaunchRock and a community architect for Zappos, UserVoice and Seesmic. The meeting was held at the ChaiONE offices. The conference room was packed, and people were sitting in the lobby area with their heads peeking around the wall to hear the discussion. Thomas provided many insights ...