Houston Startup Challenges
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| Academic Paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | Houston Startup Challenges |
| Author | Ed Egan |
| RAs | Diana Carranza |
| Status | In development |
| © edegan.com, 2016 | |
Summary
Recommendations for Houston emerging ecosystem.
Innovation District
- Maps (Baseline & How it should look) – (Maps by Abhi)
- Startups location – (Ed Table)
- Fund & Accelerator/Incubator locations – (Houston Pipeline)
- Patent Map (Oliver)
- Publicly traded firm data – R&D expenditure (Hira)
Pipeline
- Houston Innovation Assets – Tables (What IT companies’ do we have. Patent, publicly traded firms)
- Community Building: Networking organizations, entrepreneurship clubs, etc.
- VC Firms in Houston – (Vc, exits, startups Adrian)
- VC deals
- Annual average VC investment
- Exits
- Companies that receive VC Funding
- Total funding of current startups
- University students (Hira)
- NSF grants, NIH grants, clinical trials, (Hira)
- SBIR grants/ companies (Abhi)
Core Focus
- Data: Financial/ Impact on the following industries. City level data the econ activity on these industries. (Diana, Dallas Federal Reserve, City of Houston State of Texas)
- Basic framing stats of the city
- Oil & Gas
- Med Center
- Space
Opening the city up for testing technology
- Current example by a different city.
- Examples of technologies, tried elsewhere (Sweden, Volvo and their trucks)
Branding Strategy for Houston startup scene
- Branding budget & strategy for the city
- Current activities
