“Don’t cheat the world of the things only you can figure out and only you can do”, says Laura Fitton, the founder and CEO of OneForty, which sold to Boston-based HubSpot last summer. Fitton, who is now the Inbound Marketing Evangelist for HubSpot, talked to Tech Cocktail’s Frank Gruber about the greater context of everything…
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When it gets down to it, it’s really about the impact startups can have on our quality of life and the passion entrepreneurs bring to the table for their audience. That’s what entrepreneur Alexis Juneja shared with us when we interviewed her as part of Tech Cocktail’s Delivering Happiness series. In terms of inspiration, Juneja, co-founder…
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Rohit Bhargava loves the “agony filter” on Hipmunk. Why? Not only because it filters out the multiple stops and 12 hour layovers, but because of the philosophy behind it; leveraging technology to “filter out the idiotic”. And let’s face it – the world needs to filter out more idiotic. Bhargava is the author of Personality…
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After figuring out that you do not need to be a “techie” to start a company, firefighter and paramedic turned journalist Matt Mireles took to tackling the problem that video has on the web – primarily that it’s not indexed the same by Google or other search engines due to its rich non-text format. So…
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Earlier this month, Barcamp Saigon attracted over 800 tech-minded participants to an all-day event in Vietnam’s largest city. Presented in Vietnamese and English, the user-generated talks ranged from the popular “Apple and the Root of Innovation” to technical topics like “Intro to IOS Programming.” Below, two of the co-organizers – Tomo Huynh and Anh-Minh Do,…
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Mayank Mehta, co-founder of Cooliris, stopped by our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour in March to chat with Frank Gruber. Mayank is kind of a startup old-timer at this point, since Cooliris was founded way back in 2006 when the Internet was evolving from a very tech-centric to a media-centric medium. Cooliris, if…
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During our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour last spring, Frank Gruber talked to Sean Green, the Associate Administrator of the Small Business Administration. He runs their investment and innovation program, so his job is solely focused on finding ways to help entrepreneurs grow their companies and build jobs. Sean is not your run-of-the-mill…
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Comic books are about as analog as you can get, though even in this all-digital age of ours, they still enjoy a huge fan base. Micah Baldwin founded Graphicly to move the storytelling and escapism of comic books onto a digital platform with a global reach. If you’re a fan, you probably already know about…
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Poornima Vijayshankar is a typical startup founder – she loves what she does so much that she jumps out of bed every morning – early. Her company, Bizeebee, helps small businesses with large communities manage all the behind-the-scenes logistics. Their focus right now is on yoga studios and helping them manage customers, track and retain…
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What happens when you grow up as the son of an engineer in Silicon Valley? You get to see the first Mac prototype in 1967 – which didn’t ship for another 17 years. Prolific author and man-about-tech-town Robert Scoble, who was with Microsoft and now leads the Startup charge at Rackspace, has always been into…
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Mike Jones, serial entrepreneur, investor and most recently, founder of the new LA technology studio, Science, joined us at the DCWEEK Opening Keynotes last week. Tech Cocktail’s own Jen Consalvo interviewed Jones, discussing his early entrepreneurial days, his success with Userplane which he sold to AOL, and his challenges with MySpace which was eventually sold to…
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What does mobility mean to you and how does it affect your life? Genevieve Bell an Intel fellow, social scientist and anthropologist by trade has some interesting ideas as she has been researching this question for Intel with various projects for quite sometime. We caught up with Genevieve previously at SXSW where she shared some of…
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Last Wednesday night at the DCWEEK Opening Keynotes, an interesting mix of technologists and social anthropologists took the stage at Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. and talked to over a thousand tech enthusiasts about mobility, innovation and the future. One of Tech Cocktail’s good friends Brian Solis had many fans in the crowd and shared…
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Karl Staib, founder of the blog Work Happy Now, sat down with Frank Gruber during our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour last March to share his views on what makes people happy at work. If you are a startup founder and/or entrepreneur, you are most likely doing the work you love – why…
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Nicole Glaros, Director at TechStars in Boulder, stopped by our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour last March to talk about entrepreneurship. If you are not familiar with TechStars and are in the very beginning stages of your startup, check them out. They are a mentorship-driven seed accelerator with locations in Boston, Boulder, NYC,…
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During our SXSW Delivering Happiness tour, we had a chance to talk to Mark Hendrickson, CEO and co-founder of Plancast, an event discovery and sharing platform. He shared his thoughts about all the experimentation with social media currently taking place, how technology can bring you value you didn’t expect, and how the Internet should be…
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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