The model of salaried employees working in offices is slowly shifting, says Tony Bacigalupo. And he’s accelerating that shift as mayor of New Work City, a coworking space in (you guessed it) New York City. When he’s not coworking, Bacigalupo is out and about in the NYC tech scene helping organize meetups, Barcamps, TEDx, and Girl…
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Neil Mylet is a rather atypical startup founder. He was raised on a farm and continues to spend 8 hours a day farming in central Indiana. Naturally, his startup, LoadOut, is agriculture-focused: their goal is to improve mobile adoption in farming. During our SXSW #StartupLife Celebration on March 10, Mylet stopped by to talk about…
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Social capital: is it some high falutin, new-age terminology meant to give relevance to the irrelevant or the most undervalued hiring criteria in today’s economy? Nicole Antoinette co-creator, wordsmith and marketing director for the recently released iPhone wallpaper app, Paper’d, is making a strong case for the latter. In the seven days since the app’s release, Paper’d has already…
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I went to my first SXSW when I was 17, using my sister’s badge to catch a glimpse of Janeane Garofolo at Emos in Austin. You can watch that SXSW described by then-musician Fred Armisen here. The conference has come a very long way since then. Originally a ploy by Austin bars to stay full during…
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Cindy Gallop is older, female, and working on a startup related to sex – not the greatest combination for finding venture capital, she says. But with her sharp independence and honest vivacity, she sure makes for an inspiring entrepreneur. Gallop launched Make Love Not Porn (NSFW) to a few giggles and much chatter at TED in…
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If you like to travel, you might want to know about Zamp, a social travel service that connects travelers while they are traveling – not before or after. According to co-founder Sam Zebarjadi, a billion hours are spent every year sitting around and waiting for flights, a number I do not doubt in the least. …
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Standing in the shadow of Silicon Valley, Los Angeles is gearing up to become a startup hub in its own right. And today it will take a step toward the limelight with the first demo day of Start Engine, a new tech accelerator in LA. Created by Activision cofounder Howard Marks and investor Paul Kessler,…
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Sites like AngelList help startups and investors meet, but where do they go from there? Gust is a platform that goes beyond connection to help them manage the relationship: investors can browse opportunities, share deals with other VCs, and communicate with their portfolio, while startups can find investors and raise new rounds of funding. Internet…
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Shane Green wants you to have control over your data – not the data that apps or social networks are quietly monitoring, but the bits of messy, sticky-noted data you’re constantly looking up. Green is the CEO of Personal, which lets you create shareable “gems” of data like Work Directions, Favorite Recipes, or Passports. He’s…
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Do you have a pile of other people’s business cards that just sit around collecting dust? Maybe you’ve even forgotten who you wanted to reach out to. Sometimes meeting new people gets the best of us, and we either forget to reach out to the people we met or just don’t make time for it,…
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Marci Harris has seen both worlds. As a congressional staffer, she participated in the “zero-sum game” of politics, where the goal is often to beat your opponent or not get dragged down into a scandal. As an entrepreneur – cofounder and CEO of POPVOX – Harris has now joined a world of community and innovation…
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Managing marketing and social media is not easy, even with the resources of a large company. Jessica Jensen, Senior Marketing Manager at Microsoft, stopped by our SXSW #StartupLife Celebration Saturday to talk about the challenges of marketing in today’s day and age when there’s so much noise to break through. As you’ll see in the…
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Acheev.it is a little hard to keep track of – the startup is based in Beijing, but incorporated in Singapore, with developers in Vietnam, an adviser from Australia, and first customers in Malaysia. Oh, and the founders are from the US and Germany. In other words, not the smallest of logistical challenges. But they’ve pulled…
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Who is going to win social discovery? Last week, we interviewed Paul Davison, founder Highlight – this year’s most buzzed about social discovery app at SXSW. We also had the opportunity to sit down with Damien Patton, founder of Banjo, likely the consensus as second place contestant in this race. After talking with each of…
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Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv, a platform for web series that helps independent producers make a decent living, is one of those kids who knew what she wanted to be when she was really young – like 5 or 6 years old. Because her dad is a professor at Harvard Business School, she grew up…
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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