Mayor Sylvester Turner kicked off the City of Houston’s 2021 Liftoff Houston Startup Business Plan Competition (Liftoff Houston)
Sponsored by Capital One Bank and administered by the Houston Public Library (HPL) and the Office of Business Opportunity (OBO), Liftoff Houston aims to empower Houstonians to start their own businesses through a series of workshops and coaching sessions that take place from August through October. Winners in three categories – Service, Product, and Innovation – will each receive $10,000 in seed money from Capital One Bank. Applications are open from July 7 through Monday, Aug. 2.
Plan to build 'first class' Latino cultural center in Houston gets enthusiastic support
A call for art for a juried exhibition of Latino art drew more than 200 pieces from more than 70 artists. The number of submissions did not surprise the curators of “Withstand: LatinX Art in Times of Conflict,” but the quality of the art overwhelmed them.
Since the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001 to radically change the way software was developed and delivered, its methodologies have spread beyond the software world into other managed projects with a specialist-client structure.
High-end hospitality veteran launches firm for budding Houston restaurateurs
A new consulting firm aims to assist would-be restaurateurs in bringing their new projects to light. Laval Hospitality is the latest project for Sébastien Laval...
