While many of you were outside enjoying the beautiful weekend, Santa Monica’s premier coworking space, Coloft, played host to Startup Weekend LA as more than 100 developers, designers, marketers & product managers convened to launch startups in just 54 hours! Notwithstanding a bit of excitement of whether there would be another surprise celebrity drop in this year…
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In an effort to demonstrate how great Chicago is for young entrepreneurs looking to launch startup, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today ThinkChicago, a special program that will bring top students from regional universities to Chicago for meetings, lectures and interactive sessions designed to foster a better understanding of Chicago’s business scene. Think of it…
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Call it social signals, your digital reputation, your online footprint – your online search results matter – a lot. Once you sit down and absorb what that actually means, it is quite a sobering thought, whether you are a professional with a full-time job, a freelancer, or a startup looking for funding. With several sessions…
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For many years, Chicago’s start-up community has found itself torn between two identities – the city flushed with the success of our entrepreneurs and the start-up community behind the shadow of Silicon Valley. The conversation has grown louder and encompassed more supporters with continued innovation and the international visibility of companies that have been founded here and…
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After you enjoy an evening out at the Tech Cocktail Birthday Bash event, venture out for a different type of evening – at Entrepreneurs Unpluggd, produced by Tech Cocktail contributors Stella Fayman and Tim Jahn. With this series, the two seek to create an intimate, engaging environment for entrepreneurs to learn from other entrepreneurs’ experiences. The…
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The Fashion Incubator San Francisco at Macy’s Union Square (FISF) officially launched on Monday, with the mission of reclaiming the city’s status as a fashion industry leader. Backed by support from San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee, the non-profit is dedicated to supporting local fashion designers. Providing all the tools and resources designers need to…
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TechWomen is a professional mentorship and exchange program enabling women in the field of technology from the Middle East and North Africa to reach their full potential. The pilot program kicked off in April and offered 37 women selected from the Middle East and North Africa a chance to gain valuable mentorship experience by pairing…
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It is really interesting that so much focus is suddenly shifting to healthcare startups and innovation. I just wrote about new startup accelerator Healthbox, which launched on the same day as StartUp Health. Can entrepreneurs solve the huge problems of this country’s miserable – and worsening – healthcare quality, affordability, and access? Maybe, but since…
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Chicago-based Sandbox Industries, a venture capital firm and leading incubator for startup companies, is launching Healthbox, a business accelerator that will focus exclusively on the healthcare industry. Healthbox will build on the success of Excelerate Labs, the tech accelerator that Sandbox co-founded last year, and that we just named Top 3 among 15 other prominent…
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Dreamit Ventures, the Philadelphia-based Startup Accelerator that we covered previously, is bringing their startup incubator to NYC. Dreamit Ventures was ranked number nine in our recent USA Startup Accelerator report. The 3-month long programs include mentoring, up to $25,000 in funding, legal, accounting and admin help as well as the opportunity to pitch to VCs…
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New-York based Pipeline Fund Fellowship (PFF) which trains women philanthropists to become angel investors is hosting its first annual conference this Saturday, April 30th with the goal of increasing the number of women who become investors or entrepreneurs. “I launched the Pipeline Fund Fellowship for two reasons: to diversify the investor pool and to create a…
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While some college towns tend to empty out during the summer months, DC comes alive with students from around the country who come to intern at some of the country’s best companies, and of course, the US Government. But there’s another option that students might not be aware of. Tech startups. There are lots of…
Read MoreGeorge Washington University hosted its annual Business Plan Competition Finals on Thursday and Friday of this past week. The event was a two-day culmination of an academic, year-long series of events and active mentorship on new venture creation. A record 112 teams entered this year’s competition but only eight made it to the Finals. The…
Read MoreKevin Plank, founder and CEO of Under Armour, began his foray into entrepreneurship as a University of Maryland undergrad and walk-on football player. While at school, he and his future wife developed a business playing cupid for budding student romances by selling and delivering flowers on the College Park campus. Once a year in honor…
Read MoreBaltimore has officially extended you an invitation to become part of its “innovation community”. Startup City, a just-launched business accelerator program, is recruiting 10 early-stage ventures for a 12 week program that includes mentorship, $15,000 of seed funding, office space, legal advice and workshops this summer in Baltimore. Why Baltimore, and why now? The term “innovation community”…
Read MoreAnnounced today, the inaugural TechStorm conference will be the first national event focused exclusively on matching innovative university technologies with entrepreneurs and seed funding opportunities. The event will take place on June 2, 2011 in Fairfax, Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC. Co-host of the event, Amplifier Ventures will provide up to $250,000 in seed funding for…
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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