There are currently thousands of photo applications in the Apple iTunes App Store. I just counted over 1,300 photography applications that have been released since June 2010. So this makes for a rather competitive landscape. But with all the selection, there are certain applications for certain situations. One photo app that has risen to the…
Read MoreWe were in San Francisco in September to host a classic Tech Cocktail mixer event which rallied together the local technology community and featured 10 early-stage startup companies. ABC 7 Bay Area News joined us for the occasion and talked to a number of entrepreneurs, angel investors and VCs who were in attendance. They then…
Read MoreAfter being in stealth mode for quite some time, the San Francisco startup Path unveiled its iPhone application a couple of days ago. The application offers a simple photo sharing experience. Users can share real-time photos in a stream which is quite similar to a number of applications including Instragram which has been growing its…
Read MoreTrying to find the best local pizza place, a great dive bar or the hottest happy hour in town can sometimes take time and be a daunting task. You can try Yelp or UrbanSpoon but may end up missing the granular information you want about the exact things you are looking for. Or your could…
Read MoreLooking to take advantage of everyone’s hyper connectivity online, San Francisco-based RockMelt rolled out today to offer a new Web browser directly connected to a Facebook account. RockMelt is backed by serial entrepreneur and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. RockMelt is based off the open source platform Chromium, which is the same project that Google’s Chrome…
Read MoreIn San Francisco there’s a guy named Ben who graduated from West Point, is certified to train individuals in marksmanship, ranger fitness, and ranger combatives and would like to teach you some of his techniques. There’s also a guy named Rick who recently won the 2009 award for the Best Walking Tour of San Francisco…
Read MoreYour email inbox is a sea of opportunities. Everyday I try to keep up and get through all of them but a lot of times items get lost under the fold of the Web page, tucked out of view, kept as new until I have time to circle back and dig out. I have many…
Read MoreWomen in startups has been a big topic in 2010. Here at Tech Cocktail we’ve been more focused on highlighting activity by great women than expounding on any deficits. That said, we still want to encourage our female colleagues to startup! That’s why we’d like to highlight some of the great work Women 2.0 is…
Read MoreThis week’s show is all about disruption and changing paradigms in two very different spaces. It may not be a “major” election year, but this year’s cycle is getting plenty of attention – and that is due in very large part to the way in which candidates are leveraging new media technologies to engage voters….
Read MoreThe CEA Industry Forum is taking place this week in San Francisco. Tech Cocktail was a media partner for the event and I participated as a judge for the i-stage startup launch competition. Eight startups offered three-minute elevator pitches to the crowded room of CEA industry professionals. The startups were competing for $50,000 worth of…
Read MoreSince 2007, the team of Brad Feld and David Cohen has been running the TechStars incubator program and seed funding startups. The program, which started in Boulder but has quickly expanded to Boston, Seattle and New York, provides startup founders with support, advice and mentoring during the program. Some past successes have included SocialThing, Filtrbox,…
Read MoreThis past week, we saw the first round of six startups launch out of the I/O Ventures incubator program in San Francisco. The incubator offers a four month program to help entrepreneurs launch a product and create a business. It invests up to $25,000 in exchange for 8 percent in common stock. I/O Ventures has…
Read MoreLast night Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone sat down for a “burning” fireside chat with BusinessWeek senior reporter Brad Stone in the gorgeous Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, CA – just a hop & a skip away from Twitter HQ. The focus of the event, organized by The Commonwealth Club’s Inforum SF…
Read MoreFreshly back from a stint in LA, Cathy is back in her San Francisco studio for this week’s episode. On this week’s docket – the upcoming BlogWorld Expo and a deep discussion about ethics and integrity in the social media community. This year’s BlogWorld Expo, like previous years, has several themed tracks. This year the…
Read MoreWe were delighted to see the news today that along with the launch of the new Twitter, previewed on September 14th in San Francisco, the company has a new CEO. Why are we excited? New CEO Dick Costolo was previously the CEO of Feedburner, a Chicago-based startup that was influential in the creation of Tech…
Read MoreOn a rainy Thursday night in Washington, D.C., I went to the much anticipated midnight opening of the movie, The Social Network. The story is based on the creation and rise of Facebook and is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by…
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Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
We are excited to announce the participating startups for Tech Cocktail's South by Southwest (SXSW) event: #Startuplife Celebration presented by .CO. It was one of... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More