Raise your hand if you’ve worked at hourly retail or hospitality job. Yeah, a lot of us have. Remember filling out paper applications and scheduling interviews with the manager – which of course meant you had to travel to their location at least twice? A new DC-based startup called JobOn wants to change that decades-old…
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It’s 3am. You’ve got diarrhea, a fever, and a blistering headache. Your spouse demands that you go to the hospital. You think it’s a mild-case of food poisoning and are convinced that Pepto-Bismol, fluid, and time are ample solutions to the problem. Who’s right? The wrong answer means either a few wasted hours and unnecessary hospital fees, or…
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Whether you’re selling tickets to a small yoga class or a large concert venue, this process can be synonymous with headache. On one hand, you have the customizable software option, but that’s a massive upfront cost. On the other, you can use a third-party client, but they’re going to ask for a large slice of the pie….
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If you are a startup founder or small business owner, it goes without saying that you are severely crunched for time. How does a platform that brings together a powerful web presence, social networking, e-commerce, and business management tools in one place sound? Pretty good, right? Last night at our DC Winter Mixer, I got…
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We previously covered Summify in a piece on app fatigue, but Summify won’t be around long enough to fatigue you: the Vancouver-based startup was acquired by Twitter in late January. Summify crafted a daily summary of news from your social networks, pulling out links to articles and serving up the most interesting. It prioritized links…
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Is it being overshadowed, or flying under the radar? Call it what you will. No matter how you shake it, last week’s launch of Eventup, a marketplace for renting venues, created quite a splash. However, a little less than one month earlier, Ella Lief launched Venue Cricket, a marketplace for renting venues, resulting in a much…
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Eric Bell wants his company to become the trusted source of financial information for Generation Y. With information on saving money, managing debt, and investing for the future YoBucko just might be it. Young people are going online more often to shop for financial services, but there isn’t a single place where they can learn…
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Simplee, a platform for tracking and paying health care bills, has hit on one of the best forms of advertising: free money. During February, the Palo Alto startup will give you a $10 discount on a medical bill paid through its system. Just use the code “promo-10” when checking out – current and new users…
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There’s no other way to put it – free time is getting harder to come by. In a down economy and a competitive job market, there is no such thing as a forty-hour work week anymore. Because of this, our daily tasks have become more difficult to squeeze into our daily schedule. No where is…
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Just in time for New York Fashion Week, new startup StyleMusee is helping men and women discover fashion inspiration that matches their personal styles. The NYC-based company is setting out to be the fashion industry’s hub on Facebook, bringing the social offline shopping experience online. StyleMusee has identified and classified nearly one thousand style related…
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Marshall Seese’s reasons for starting social gaming company Mowgli Games were clear. “Simply put, it pissed me off that money like that could be made from a game where people spent all their time making something fake,” he said, in reference to Zynga’s wildly popular Farmville. “So from there I decided that social gaming would…
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New Year’s resolutions: easy to make, easier to break. If you’re still struggling to get into a regular exercise routine, sleep more, eat healthier, drink less alcohol and more water, a new web app called RoutineTap just might come in handy. The nice thing about this Lisbon, Portugal-based progress-tracking app is that it’s customizable. You…
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Many women can sympathize with one of Audrey Melnik’s romantic mishaps: she had a promising date – drinks led to dinner, then the guy gave her a goodnight kiss and walked her to the car – but she never heard from him again. “I felt quite helpless in this situation, where if I was to…
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Boston-based PowerInbox, which we first covered in August and then showcased at our Tech Cocktail Boston mixer in September, has just launched an API (in beta) that is a marketer’s dream. Anyone from developers to publishers can add ecommerce, videos, photos, real-time updates and more right in the body of email messages. Founder and CEO…
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Spring will soon be in the air, and that means hundreds of thousands of weddings are literally being planned as I write this. Those of you who have tied the knot already know the planning process can be a marathon event as you make hundreds of decisions all leading up to the big day. A…
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Eventup, the first startup from Science Inc., the technology studio founded by ex-MySpace CEO Mike Jones, launched earlier today. Anyone who’s been to a Tech Cocktail mixer knows first hand that the quality of a venue makes plays a major role in the quality of experience. We pride ourselves in digging through your city’s top…
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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