On Monday night, Rosetta Stone hosted an event at Barcode as part of Social Media Week in Washington, D.C. The title - “Interactive Culture: Food, Drinks, and Social Collaboration with Rosetta Stone” – caught my attention. In the description of the event they were boasting ”a night of international culture and interactive collaboration,” and they completely lived up to their promise. Shavanna…
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It’s finally here! The first StartupBus will be leaving Washington, D.C. during the first week of March and will head down to SXSW with about 25 lucky “buspreneurs,” hackers, hipsters, and of course hustlers! “StartupBus is an invitation-only community of hackers, hustlers and hipsters passionate about startups who compete in an annual hackathon-style competition on buses traveling…
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Today marks the one year anniversary of Startup America. To mark the occasion, there are 14 different regional events happening, the first being a Startup Virginia early breakfast meeting with Steve Case and Aneesh Chopra, and more, which is happening right down the street in Arlington, Virginia (we attended). Other events will include a startup…
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What are the odds of seeing the founders of Twitter, Tumblr, Groupon, Dropbox and Wikipedia; the CEOs of eBay, Salesforce, Audi and Lufthansa; and Yoko Ono and Arianna Huffington in one place? Pretty high if you attended this year’s DLD conference in Munich. DLD (Digital – Life – Design), a global conference on innovation, digital…
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…if there were like 5 Goliaths, and David was a very cranky old man, whose primary weapon was whining instead of a slingshot and the battle took place over a binary digital battlefield instead of the valley of Ellah. Otherwise, it’s just like David & Goliath 2000 years later. The Startup America Partnership is harnessing…
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Tech Cocktail has been a supporter of the Startup America Partnership since its inception early last year, and now the organization is getting ready to celebrates its first anniversary (next week)! How time flies. It’s been exciting to watch the organization blossom and roll out various programs for entrepreneurs, from Startup Illinois, the first state to launch a program…
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A freshly minted startup here in DC called CoFoundersLab officially launched this past November (on 11/11/11) to fill a void in the startup world: They are a matchmaking platform for tech entrepreneurs, which actually grew out of a successful meetup group. In a highly entertaining call with Cofounder Shahab Kaviani this morning, he articulated what…
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I’m an entrepreneur, you’re an entrepreneur, we’re all entrepreneurs. We’re startup folks. We’re intuitive and fast moving. We listen to our gut, and our gut is always right. We don’t need structure, meetings, badges, or metrics…that’s for the big guys. I’m a hipster iGal/iGuy. I’m like the living, breathing, re-incarnation of Steve Jobs on steroids….
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As our world gets smaller, online communities are becoming more and more ubiquitous. I’m not talking about huge social networks like Facebook, which target everyone, but more focused communities that target a specific niche. We just ran a post on Scoutzie a couple of hours ago, which brings together mobile designers in one place –…
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Starting this Friday at 8 pm PST, a 48-hour coding competition called CodeSprint kicks off. Open to everyone, the competition asks you to solve programming problems to win interviews with more than 65 companies, including Facebook, Quora, Amazon, Skype, Dropbox, Groupon, and Airbnb. From now until next Wednesday, participants can browse the available companies and…
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Is 2012 the year you take on learning to code? I hung up my coding shoes in 2006, but that hasn’t stopped me from hacking on a project here and there over the last few years. But over time, my skills for specific programming languages have become outdated with the slew of new technologies available….
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Starting this spring, MIT will begin offering online courses to anyone, anywhere, for free – and this time, students can receive a certificate of completion. The platform, dubbed MITx, will include online labs, communication with other students, and individual assessment. But MIT is making sure to distinguish MITx from its traditional degree programs. The university…
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If you’ve been toying with the idea for some cool new technology, consider applying to HAXLR8R, a 4-month accelerator program for hardware startups starting in March. HAXLR8R takes place in Shenzhen, China, a hub for electronics manufacturing, with a demo day in Silicon Valley. According to cofounder Cyril Ebersweiler, also the founder of TechStars network’s…
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Want to join the engineering team over at LivingSocial? Here’s your shot. The Hungry Academy, created by the people at LivingSocial and JumpstartLab, is a 5 month engineer training academy ”that will challenge [participants] and push [them] to their limits.” Two dozen applicants will be selected to take part in this unique program, and along the way they…
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There seems to be a lingering amount of conflict between traditional business practices and emerging technologies. Before, your company could run a television ad, use the Nielsen Ratings to target your demographic, and compare the change in sales to the control data, either an ad-free market or a period of time. Or maybe you’d include…
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New York Entrepreneur Week wrapped up last Saturday, featuring CEO coach and investor Mac Lipscomb as a keynote speaker. The 20-person organization now has its sights on Chile, where they are sending a delegation in January. This initiative is part of Entrepreneur Week’s expansion to South America, the Middle East, and Europe, which began with…
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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
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
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
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More