A few months back, I received a call from Blair Garrou of DJF Mercury in Houston with an idea. The Rice Alliance venture forum was coming up, and he thought it would be a great idea to put together a panel of the Texas Tech Bloggers.  It was really great to be a part of that, and Blair did a great job of moderating the session.

Josh Tabin of StartupHouston is a great guy, whom I’ve met before on one of his trips to Austin. He had probably the most memorable line from our panel. When asked what advice any of us might have for VC’s, Josh said simple, “Get off your ass.” I don’t think he’s under the assumption that venture capitalists don’t work very hard, I assume he was telling them all to start putting their capital to work despite the poor economy. He had his own summary of the event on his blog.

Alex Muse also did a great job on the panel. It’s amazing he has any time to blog at all, given the number of companies that he’s involved with, or starting himself. One thing he noted was a similarity between us blog owners in all the major Texas cities — we’re all doing basically the same things in terms of blogging about emerging technology and also supporting and hosting in-person events and happy hours.

Dean McCall from San Antonio is someone who I had not met before, but everyone spoke very highly of him. You can find his website at Ideagin and get an idea of what he is up to. There is probably more cool tech stuff going on in San Antonio that you know about. I would imagine Rackspace is probably a huge tech anchor for that community.

Thanks again, Blair, for setting up this panel!