“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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I’d like to take a moment and thank everyone who has made 2011 so spectacular for us. Not long ago, Frank decided to turn his Tech Cocktail hobby into a full time business and asked me to join him to elevate it to new levels. Together we’ve worked on goals, found amazing contributors, launched a…
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I’m going to stop waiting till next year. I’m not waiting till next week, next month, next year. The next time I look at an item on my to-do list for the 2nd or 3rd time, instead of putting it off again for another indefinite future execution date that I won’t meet, I’m taking it…
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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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Editor’s Note: This is article is a revised version of an article written by Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber that appears in the January 2012 issue of The Social Media Monthly. If you like this article you might want to download the The Social Media Monthly iPad app or iPhone app and subscribe to get the scoop in 2012….
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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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When I first checked out Remixt.us’s beta, I was a bit skeptical: it looked like a bunch of nice image collages, but I wasn’t sure why users would create them. But talking to cofounder Angela Min, I began to see how it could be beautiful and meaningful. Remixt.us’s bookmarklet lets you grab content from all…
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Tell me if this has happened to you. You receive your local Groupon or LivingSocial deal of the day. The offer strikes your fancy; you purchase without hesitation. The printed voucher sits in the middle console of your car for weeks on end as you aimlessly drive past the offerer’s establishment during your daily commute….
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We have covered, sliced, diced and analyzed the startup accelerators for awhile now and even produced the first startup accelerator rankings this past year. Yesterday, TechStars, a Boulder-based startup accelerator program, took a step to help simplify the process by offering a unified application form for startup accelerators at accelerato.rs. The website gives startup founders…
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If you’ve been toying with the idea for some cool new technology, consider applying to HAXLR8R, a 4-month accelerator program for hardware startups starting in March. HAXLR8R takes place in Shenzhen, China, a hub for electronics manufacturing, with a demo day in Silicon Valley. According to cofounder Cyril Ebersweiler, also the founder of TechStars network’s…
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Do you ever have days where you feel tremendously busy but when 6pm roles around you look back at your day’s productivity, and there’s not much to show for it. I have. You get stuck on what’s urgent rather than what’s important. Your day is spent in meetings, answering e-mails and responding to texts, you…
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We like to share. We share what where we are. We share what we’re doing, and who we’re doing it with. We share what we’re eating. We share what we’re watching. We share what we’re listening to. But there seems to be no consensus favorite service to share what books we are currently reading. Readmill…
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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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Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup; the broth is simmered for hours and then served everywhere from restaurants to street stalls to trains. One day, the founder of Pho Ta, an upscale soup chain in Vietnam, sat down for a meal at one of his stores. To his surprise, the waiter said they couldn’t serve…
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I love documentaries. I’m always the first to drag my friends to the local independent theater to see the latest documentary – if it’s available. But a lot of times it’s not. And what’s more, my ride to work on the subway could use some livening up. So I was excited to give SnagFilms a…
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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