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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How can small businesses manage their money better? That’s the question Jessica Mah asked herself. Inspired by business owners everywhere and the approach that Mint had taken a few years ago, Jessica Mah looked at the unique challenges encountered by small businesses and started inDinero in July 2010 to help every business owner better manage…
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If you’re a creative, you’ll want to watch this short video interview with Scott Belsky, founder of Behance, who spoke with Frank Gruber as part of our Delivering Happiness interview series. Behance is the largest online network of creative professionals in the world. They totally rethought the portfolio so creatives can really show off their…
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Frank Gruber interviewed Tech Cocktail’s good friend Peter Corbett as part of our Delivering Happiness tour at SXSW in March. If you know Peter, you know to expect an animated conversation, and you’ll see in the video below that he delivers. If you don’t know Peter, his company iStrategy Labs, creates digital and experiential marketing…
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During our Delivering Happiness bus tour at SXSW, Jen Consalvo had a chance to chat with StepCase founder Leon Ho. If you’re not familiar with StepCase, they create simple and flexible mobile photo-sharing apps like Steply, Darkroom, and others. Leon’s wide ranging conversation with Jen covered the company’s background, Leon’s prediction that mobile will become…
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Chris Messina of Google joined us for a great chat with Tech Cocktail’s founder Frank Gruber during SXSW for our Delivering Happiness video series. During the brief conversation, he covered the social web and how important it is to make the web in general more accessible to a wider variety of people, as well as…
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AwayFind, a tool that helps solve email overload by alerting you to urgent messages, recently raised $800,000 in seed funding led by 500 Startups and CAP Ventures. Last week, AwayFind also announced a new product targeted at businesses and available in the Google Apps Marketplace. It gives administrators a control panel to manage their company’s…
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LiveFyre, the San Francisco-based software platform that enables anyone to add a commenting system to a website, has secured an additional $4.5 million in a new round of funding led by Greycroft Partners and digital media investors Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture Capital. Livefyre’s commenting platform is currently installed on more than 14,000 websites, including…
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Michael Galpert, co-founder of Aviary, a New York City-based startup, joined me for a chat to share what inspired him to create his startup, why he loves that technology has enabled everyone to be connected and how he looks to help entrepreneurs, as well as share some personal stories about his journey as an entrepreneur….
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Paul Lee is the founder of Ximplar, a startup that creates spreadsheet software for businesses and hearing enhancement technology. Raised in Hong Kong until he crossed the ocean to attend the University of Michigan, Lee worked on startups in Silicon Valley and New York until 2007. I previously covered Lee’s thoughts on why startups aren’t…
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Alice Zhang used the word “relatable” over and over to describe her gallery’s art, and it’s also one of the best ways to describe her. Wearing a stylish, loose white shirt and tan heels for our interview, she digressed about Beijing and food in Hong Kong. But mostly, she chatted enthusiastically about creating a hip…
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A veteran of the startup world as creative lead at Threadless, Digg and others, Jeffrey Kalmikoff has been leading up the product team at San Francisco-based startup SimpleGeo. I got a chance to sit down with Jeffrey while at South by Southwest to discuss his role, experience, and share his advice for any entrepreneurs looking…
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Group texting was a popular and trending niche of startup development this year, and it was clearly on display this past March at South by Southwest. So I was pleased to get a chance to sit down and talk with DC-based entrepreneur Morris Panner about his latest endeavor Groupflier, which we covered previously. Morris shares…
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Gretchen Rubin has had amazing success with her 5th and most recent book, The Happiness Project. Of her previous books, some have succeeded while some never found an audience. When she took on her 5th book, she approached it differently: She found her audience ahead of time and leveraged the Web to build momentum, thus…
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I first interviewed Matt Galligan as he showed off SocialThing at the first Tech Cocktail Boulder mixer event in early March of 2008. SocialThing officially launched into private beta the next day at SXSW, and six months later was acquired by AOL. At that point, I went to work with Matt on lifestreaming and social…
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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