D.C. startup Aquicore adds advisers from HelloWallet, O-Power and Bloomberg BNA

District-based energy software company Aquicore has added advisory board members from two prominent D.C. startups — Revell Horsey, co-founder of the recently acquired HelloWallet, and Ben Foster, former head of product management at Opower— to help with the company’s business strategy and product development.

Dmitri Mehlhorn, former president of Bloomberg BNA Legal, was also recently recruited, and will advise on marketing strategies and talent recruitment.

Aquicore, which develops hardware…

What the Texas oil slump means for your industry

Oil prices are hovering near $50 a barrel in Texas — down more than 50 percent from last summer — and jobs are being slashed by the thousands.

Most of the energy sector is in for a painful 2015, but it’s also affecting other Houston industries and the overall state economy.

Click on the photo to view a slideshow with associated industry outlooks for the Houston region.

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Alexandria waterfront slowly begins to take shape

It’s been three years since a big civic battle over the vision for the future of Old Town Alexandria’s waterfront, but pieces are finally crystalizing into view.

While there’s been plenty of talk of luxury hotels, restaurants and lush parks to come, The Washington Post reports that the next step in the process will come March 3, when the City Council will decide what funding to allocate to the less-glamorous, but all-too-important process of flood mitigation.

That infrastructure process could take…

Burlesque joint or strip club? Chinatown wonders about the latest

The latest proposed addition to the roaring-back-to-life Penn Quarter-Chinatown area has some neighbors a bit rattled. They call the planned Royal Jelly nightclub a strip club. The developer calls it a future home to burlesque shows.

The club, eyeballed for 477 H Street NW, according to The Washington Post, comes by way of Ivan Kane, an L.A.-based nightclub owner whose joints have opened in Hollywood, Las Vegas and Atlantic City. The theme of all of them: A callback to the bawdy nightclubs that…

8 things: Fire incident with D.C. streetcar; 'Birdman' soars at Oscars

Good morning and welcome to your Monday . Here’s some of your business:

1. AM News Talkers:

D.C.’s still-under-testing streetcar line ran into some troublesome issues Saturday. There was what the District Department of Transportation called a “flash fire” on top of one of the new streetcars just before midnight, but in a news release, DDOT brushed it off by stating “initial observations suggest this was an isolated incident.” No reasons for what may have caused the brief fire were given and DDOT…