For years, Houston's tech community was considered to lack cohesion. Houston has a lot of tech workers, but they're siloed in energy companies, the Medical Center, the space industry, academia at Rice & UH, and in the PC business at HP to the north. And local tech startups must compete with the lure of Austin when it came to attracting talent.
But there is a growing startup community, and Houston's quality of life has improved dramatically. Still can the sprawl of tech's footprint, which matches the spread of the city's 600 square miles, be overcome? Or has the community finally reached "critical mass"?
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