Houston's economic diversity Thread .. (Dallas, Austin: contractor, maintenance, disposal)

[Jack Lance]

Distributed business pioneer and creator of Wordpress Matt Mullenweg, lives in Houston and distributes economic diversity around the world.

Matt Mullenweg built a company worth more than a billion dollars on software he started coding when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of Houston, but you’ll never see the WordPress name atop an office building.

That’s because Mullenweg’s Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, has no physical headquarters. Its 850-plus employees are scattered in 69 countries around the globe in what’s known as a distributed business. Mullenweg, who graduated from Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, has become an evangelist for this way of working, and is developing a podcast and writing a book on the topic.

This approach has been wildly successful. WordPress is used on more than 33 percent of the sites on the web, according to W3Techs, which tracks technologies used by websites. It requires hustle, though: In 2018, Mullenweg logged 377,000 miles, visiting 126 cities in 20 countries, according to his most recent birthday blog post - a tradition he’s maintained since he was 19.

After spending WordPress’ early days in San Francisco, Mullenweg now considers Houston his home base again.


https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...s-13708522.php

[Jimmy1953]

This is one of my favorite threads on CD Jack.

[Jack Lance]

We posted a few months ago about the acquisition of Satellite & Extraterrestrial Operations & Procedures, by Hypergiant. Now we are posting about their plans to bring internet service to deep space and help diversify Earths and the Greater Houston economy.

Internet service can sometimes be spotty here on Earth. Just imagine checking email from the moon or searching Google from Mars.

A Houston satellite and artificial intelligence company wants to make that possible through an “interplanetary internet” that someday could connect Earth to mining companies on the moon and human colonies on Mars and other planets. It ultimately would require a network of satellites stretching for hundreds of millions of miles and technology compensating for the movement of planets to prevent the interruption of data streaming at the speed of light.
Hypergiant Galactic, a subsidiary of Hypergiant Industries of Austin, is launching its effort as NASA talks about returning to the moon and sending humans to Mars. Hypergiant Galactic expects to begin building the outer-space internet next year by launching a series of small satellites that would be positioned at different points in space to create a network to relay signals from Earth until reaching the end destination, such as the moon, another planet or a space ship. (Kirk to Enterprise?)
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...photo-17126490

[Mr. Clutch]

Good to see startup tech activity in Houston, because the sector has not done well recently. Hopefully this can help us start to stem some of our losses in the tech scene.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...s-13723709.php

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by Mr. Clutch

Good to see startup tech activity in Houston, because the sector has not done well recently. Hopefully this can help us start to stem some of our losses in the tech scene.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bus...s-13723709.php

Thanks for posting Mr. Clutch. The article does not paint a rosey picture of the Houston tech sector and all the facts contained are accurate according to CompTIA a very well respected Tech trade publication. However the Chronicle article did omit a couple of stats that are a bit more reassuring that the local tech scene is not totally lagging.

I looked up the full report and will post the link below. One stat Houston is doing well in is median income of our Tech sector. The median income in Houston for Tech workers is $86,716, which is tops in the state ahead of Austin's $86,458 and Dallas $83,907.

Houston also had the highest % increase in Emerging Tech Jobs Postings at 140% vs Dallas 123% and Austin at 76%. In overall numbers of Tech workers Houston is 2nd in the state with about 228k, behind Dallas at 350k and ahead of Austin at 155k.

You can find the various Texas Cities on these pages of the report and compare them with each other and other American cities as well.


Austin pg 71


Dallas pg 80


Houston pg 85


https://www.cyberstates.org/pdf/Comp...tates_2019.pdf

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by Jack Lance

I think there is a lot of small street level economic diversity in Houston, stuff that doesn't always show up in Government employment reports. Like this below.

The owners of independent coffeehouse and bakery Tout Suite have started construction on a new co-working space next to their popular EaDo cafe.

The new venture, called The Co-Op HTX, will encompass 10,000 square feet of co-working and retail space with the same look feel as Tout Suite: "industrial, vibrant and hip," said co-owner Anne Le.
"It's a fresh appeal where it's not just a boring, cold work space," Le said.

The Co-Op will be in the same building that houses Tout Suite at 2001 Commerce just east of downtown.

The EaDo neighborhood is emerging as a burgeoning co-working hub.
Start Houston on Delano St. targets technology startups. TX/RX Labs on Roberts Street calls itself a "hackerspace" and offers classes and access to a rapid prototyping lab, wood shop, machine shop and electronics lab.

Tout Suite expanding into co-working through crowdfunding - Houston Chronicle

People on city data are generally too old to understand this concept. This is a millennial phenomenon

[AcresHomes44]

From a tech standpoint, Houston's tech scene I'd say is bubbling. It's on the verge of exploding.

[Jack Lance]

Using proprietary technology to improve patient care, local medical software development company is also helping to diversify the Greater Houston econmy.




Medical Informatics Corp. (MIC), a Houston, TX-based provider of an FDA-cleared patient monitoring and predictive analytics platform has raised $11.9M in Series A funding led by Data Collective Venture Capital (DCVC) with significant participation from Intel Capital and the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Venture Fund.

“Our vision is to save lives by modernizing critical care environments and extending patient-centered analytics throughout the continuum of care,” added Dr. Fauss. “Our machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities allow us to rapidly create and deploy software-based, real-time, predictive analytics that would otherwise not be possible with traditional medical hardware.”

How FDA-Cleared Sickbay Works

Sickbay solves this problem by continuously capturing and processing high-fidelity, waveform data in near real-time from disparate biomedical devices connected to a patient. Once captured and transformed, results are then delivered to care teams beyond the bedside, central station, or even walls of the hospital to give clinical context so they can expedite care and reduce patient risk. Because the platform also features APIs and development tools, physicians, researchers and other members of the care team can accelerate the creation of their own algorithms and analytics based on accurate, near real-time patient data.

https://hitconsultant.net/2019/04/03.../#.XKtp--RYbIU

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Did you post about the new low-cost airline planned based out of Houston?

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Did you post about the new low-cost airline planned based out of Houston?

I posted about that in a separate thread. I will, or somebody, (maybe you) will post in this thread when the Airline actually starts up.

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