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Entrepreneurial Opportunities Innovation & Successful Partnerships September 2, 2010 Walter Ulrich

Entrepreneurial Opportunities Innovation & Successful Partnerships September 2, 2010 Walter Ulrich President and CEO, Houston Technology Center Chair, Gulf Coast Regional Center for Innovation and Commercialization. Agenda. The State of Technology Entrepreneurship in the region

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Entrepreneurial Opportunities Innovation & Successful Partnerships September 2, 2010 Walter Ulrich

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  1. Entrepreneurial Opportunities Innovation & Successful Partnerships September 2, 2010 Walter Ulrich President and CEO, Houston Technology Center Chair, Gulf Coast Regional Center for Innovation and Commercialization

  2. Agenda • The State of Technology Entrepreneurship in the region • The importance of Entrepreneurship • How you can help and participate • The Future • Technology Innovation  Commercial Success • Driving Competitiveness and Our Economy

  3. The State of Technology Entrepreneurship

  4. Business Incubator & Accelerator

  5. HTC: Working side-by-side and day-in-and-day-out with clients Identifying Gaps Solving Problems Creating Visibility Making Introductions Assisting funding HTC helps early stage technology companies fill gaps, solve problems and raise capital to survive and ultimately thrive!

  6. Six Thriving HTC Companies Graduated Last October

  7. Nine Regional Companies got ETF Commitments

  8. Entrepreneur Scorecard • Current companies in Client Acceleration Program (Aug 2010): 64 • Total HTC Client Companies (1999-2009): 244 • Total HTC Graduate Companies: 60 • Capital Raised by HTC Client Companies (1999-2009): • More than $750 million Sources: high net worth individuals, • venture capitalists, government grants • Jobs created in Houston by active Clients and Graduates:4,000+ • Estimated annual economic impact of Clients and Graduates • in the 8-county region: ~$400M

  9. AC and JK Allen Houston’s Founders Hugh Roy Cullen William Marsh Rice Glenn McCarthy Monroe D. Anderson

  10. The entrepreneur has many downs

  11. The credit belongs to…

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