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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Culture is becoming more and more a part of the everyday conversation when it comes to starting and running a business. Culture – we’re not talking about what’s hot in pop culture or which celebrities are getting married to whom, but more the large cultural shifts that are happening within organizations. Mark Drapeau of Microsoft…
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Failure is something that we all face everyday. It’s how we react to failures that makes us who we are. Startups are a constant flow of successes and failures. Micah Baldwin, the CEO of Graphic.ly, has most recently created community around digital comics and worked at various startups through the years. Micah joined us at…
Read MoreAs CTO of Threadless, Harper Reed helped grow the community-based company that prints designs created and chosen by users from 2 barely functioning servers to over 45 devices. He also helped Threadless produce a revenue of over $20 million. Reed has since moved on from Threadless and is working on his own secret startup. Harper…
Read MoreAs Co-Founder and CTO of FeedBurner which sold to Google back in 2007, Eric Lunt has experience building a successful tech startup into a business. Eric’s new venture, BrightTag, looks to ease the pain that publishers have with inserting ads, metrics and other includes into a web property. BrightTag creates a simple system that can be controlled…
Read MoreThe Pivot. It’s a term that has been used a lot lately in the startup world as it was popularized by the idea of a lean startup which was championed by Eric Ries and Steve Blank. In it’s simplest form, a business should pivot, or change something about it’s direction, if the current business model…
Read MoreThough some entrepreneurs might be interested in creating a product that could quickly be sold to Google, Microsoft, Twitter or Facebook, building a business can sometimes take a little bit of time. Chicago-based couplepreneurs Genevieve Thiers and Dan Ratner know this as they are currently working on building their third startup together. Their last startup…
Read MoreThe way to launch a new startup, product or company has changed a lot in the last decade. Just five years ago the blogosphere was the best way to plant the seeds to launch your startup. But what was once just a blogosphere of voices has morphed into a social media empowered age where everyone…
Read MoreOne of my favorite quotes from the recent Startup Mixology conference came from entrepreneur-turned-adviser and investor, Travis Kalanick: Fear is the disease, Hustle is the antidote. Since I saw those words up on the screen, they haven’t left me. You see, Tech Cocktail is a startup too – and we also have a product that…
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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