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posted on
May 7th, 2013
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Houston Strategies
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Houston

Can Houston learn from and emulate Cornell's NYC tech campus?

The NY Times has an article with the details on the Cornell NYC Tech university model, including close ties between commercial tech development and academia.  It is an economic development project ...

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posted on
April 29th, 2013
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Houston Strategies
based in
Houston

Houston vs. NYC, density does not equal wealth, DART's poor rail investments, good rankings, and more

Another round of smaller misc items:

This NYT story on the cost of living in New York has a good couple of paragraphs at the end on Houston, although I still think we hold our own pretty wel ...

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posted on
April 22nd, 2013
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Houston Strategies
based in
Houston

More great rankings, an outsider on our Ch.42 revisions, rethinking METRO, and more

My backlog of smaller miscellaneous items is at an all time high (over 50!), so prepare for a deluge as I try to clear it out over the next few weeks:

Houston in top 5 global cities for at ...

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posted on
April 14th, 2013
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Houston Strategies
based in
Houston

Seizing the Astrodome opportunity to establish Houston's new global identity

The Chronicle published my op-ed this morning, although with an inaccurate headline (it would cover all technology and innovation, not just locals).  The headline above is the original one I propo ...

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posted on
April 9th, 2013
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Houston Strategies
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Houston

Winter 1Q13 Highlights, 8-year anniversary, updated best-of-the-best

It's time for the Winter 1Q13 quarterly highlights post, as well as acknowledge the 8-year anniversary of this blog.  Wow - kind of hard to believe I've been able to keep it going this long.  And ...

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