Kurt Stoll: It all starts with creating a startup-friendly environment where people with ideas have easy access to like-minded peers, as well as capital, technical, and business resources that can help them to take their ideas or their business to the next level. Oh yeah, there also needs to be a central information source where all of these groups can understand how to connect to each other and see their work promoted, and that's where Startup Houston comes in. In the past I had heard that Houston was not a "startup town," but I asked the question "Is Houston not a startup town only because of perception, or are there things going on that people just don't know about?" It turns out that the latter is true. One of the reasons that Startup Houston was founded was to help break this chicken and egg cycle for Houston startups and by using our platform to promote startups, putting together events such as Open Coffee Club Houston, and participating in other events and meetup groups such as BarCamp, Refresh Houston, Startup Weekend, and the Houston Technology Center's Emerging Technology Council, we are working with others in the Houston technical and business communities to help foster that very environment.
Mike McGuff: Why do you believe in this?
Josh Tabin: For me personally, I have always been passionate about developing people and ideas. Houston is well known for its entrepreneurial spirit. Every day I run into someone with a great business idea that is not sure how to make something of it. There is nothing more painful to me than wasted potential.
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