New Jersey based startup Opinionaided wants to help you get advice and opinions in real-time. Their platform allows you to pose questions to the world or to your personal network, and crowdsource “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” feedback instantly. Want to know whether to purchase the iPad with 32GB or the cheaper, younger brother? Or,…
Read MoreFantasy Sports is a huge industry with millions of participants and a market impact in the billions. If you’ve ever participated and had your team win, you probably remember how great it felt. Now wouldn’t it be interesting if you could just invest in your favorite players without having to run a whole team to…
Read MoreHow many times have you subscribed to a deal website’s newsletter and then been annoyed when your inbox gets filled with deals that you don’t care about? We all desire instant gratification, and in the world of deals, that means learning about the best deals in town instantly, whenever you actually want or need the…
Read MoreToday’s marketers are hard at work creating huge evangelical communities for their products and services. One key group of consumers that these marketers are connecting with are bloggers. Now thanks to BlogDash, marketers and PR professionals have an easier way to find which bloggers they ought to target and why. Founded in NYC in 2010,…
Read MoreWanderfly is the perfect cure for wanderlust, an answer to the integral human desire for adventure and exploration. Whether it’s just daydreaming about the next vacation, or picking one that will grow you culturally, Wanderfly provides a platform to explore new places and fun activities. In a travel industry that is becoming more and more…
Read MoreIf there’s one city that has really left a mark on 2010, it’s New York. There have always been startups in New York, but the community has really blossomed in the past year or so, lending strength to voices of it’s members. As we prepare for Friday’s Tech Cocktail NYC mixer event, we thought we’d…
Read MoreSpeakLike, a New York based language service startup, is here to pave the path for global business translation technologies. Founded in 2008, SpeakLike offers users multiple translation services customized for the business-minded. Their product line includes: SpeakLike Text, an online text-translation form with actual human translators working behind the scenes, and SpeakLike Chat, an instant…
Read MoreFor aspiring photographers there are so many websites where you can create and share your passion, I would have trouble counting them on both hands. Everything from Flickr to SmugMug and many sites in between. For writers there is a plethora of blogging software and blog web sites to keep the creative juices flowing. What…
Read MoreLooking for the best person to teach or tutor you in a new task or guide you through a new process? If so, you might want to check out Betterfly. Betterfly is a New York based startup that looks to connect people who want to learn something new, look or feel better with people who…
Read MoreLast March the Tech Cocktail crew rented a house in Austin for SXSW and was happy to have some entrepreneurs from both coasts stay at the TC Headquarters. One of whom was Dave Lifson, Founder and CEO of NYC-based Postling. Dave came to Austin with a mission – to meet with a number of investors…
Read MoreWe’ve been honored to have Sprint as a Tech Cocktail mixer event sponsor for the past few months, including DC, Austin, Chicago and next up, New York. The Sprint teams in each city have been great to work with, spending time with people at mixers talking about local 4G coverage, new devices, and giving away…
Read MoreNew York is a hotbed for startup activity and it’s just a 4 hour drive from our TC Headquarters, so we are headed to big apple on November 19th to host our first NYC Tech Cocktail mixer event and showcase some of the hottest new, early stage startups in the area. If you’re an early…
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 MoreIn the crowded space of daily deals, there are two big players: LivingSocial and Groupon. Over the past few months, Groupon has received the lion’s share of attention due to their growth, investment and valuation. But it’s time to shine a light on DC-based LivingSocial, who earlier this year raised an additional $25 million in funding, and…
Read MoreMany of us love our real-time streams in Twitter, Facebook and other social sites. However, as they grow, so does the desire to compartmentalize and look for smaller communities for our various needs or interests. And we’ve seen plenty of them popping up – from Yammer and Present.ly, that connect corporate environments as well as smaller…
Read MoreUnless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve probably noticed some, er, heat in the media about women, or the lack thereof, in the technology space and specifically in the tech-speaker circuit. So today, it’s with great pleasure we get to introduce you to Allyson Kapin, founder of Women Who Tech – a group that not…
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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