Tech Cocktail’s SXSW Startup Celebration 2012 is a very special all day extravaganza. Working with our partners and sponsors, we will create a day long platform on Saturday, March 10th that will include entrepreneurial interviews similar to last year’s Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness interview series and some private events (an outdoor rooftop BBQ, meetups, etc) – all culminating…
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It’s good business, now and going forward. Your sponsors will notice. Your audience will notice. The media will notice. The other panelists will notice—because the conversation will be better, the discourse will be higher, and honestly, the clothes will be better. - Rachel Sklar on recruiting more women speakers The recent mid-Atlantic tech and creative…
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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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While DCWEEK offers content and events for everyone, the festival offers a special place for entrepreneurs and those looking at creating new ventures. In fact, on Thursday, November 10th at the DCWEEK Core Conference, there is an entire track focused on entrepreneurship and new ventures, hosted in the Spectrum Theater. Here are the highlights. The…
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If you peek at the DCWEEK website, you’ll see very clearly that there are only 24 days until the start of the festival. While the thought of less than 4 weeks to go is enough to make my head spin (Tech Cocktail is the co-producer, along with iStrategy Labs), it should get you excited about…
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Fortify.vc isn’t your standard Venture Capital firm, at least not the type of firm we’ve become use to in the DC region. There’s just something different about the firm’s partners Jonathon Perrelli and Adam Fazackerley. They talk differently, they’re approachable and pragmatic where others are distant and theoretical. The most important difference to early stage entrepreneurs…
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Last week, 45,000 Salesforce users, developers, administrators, and C-level visionaries met at the Moscone Conference Center in San Francisco to swap information and learn about the latest Salesforce offerings and apps available on its platforms. Welcome to Dreamforce 2011. The conference was packed with keynote discussions about the computing past (primarily the PC era) and…
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Julien Smith, co-author of the best-selling book Trust Agents, closes out the first day of SocialDevCamp Chicago on Saturday, August 27th with a keynote that addresses the power of visibility. Julien will discuss the need for start-ups, companies and entrepreneurs alike to gain and sustain attention to convert prospects into sales and build brand ambassadors….
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This post was written by guest blogger Frank Denbow. General Assembly, an “urban campus” for startups in NYC’s Flatiron neighborhood, put together a full day course in Venture Capital on July 16th in an event called “Assembled Capital.” Through a series of presentations, panels and discussions, event listeners learned from venture capitalists, angel investors, and…
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This coming week is a very special week for us and the city of Chicago. If you haven’t heard, it’s TechWeek, and to get you in the mood, we’ve crafted our very own list of highlights and top reasons to get involved in the weeks events. Modeled after other successful technology and innovation festivals like…
Read More This coming week is a very special week for us and the city of Chicago. If you haven’t heard, it’s TechWeek, and to get you in the mood, we’ve crafted our very own list of highlights and top reasons to get involved in the weeks events. Modeled after other successful technology and innovation festivals like…
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Today was the kickoff of the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference which runs through June 10th. In case you were not one of the Apple fans that slept on the streets of San Francisco camped out in front of the Moscone Center last night and did not get a chance to watch the action real-time or…
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Tomorrow, May 24th, Northwestern University’s Farley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (FCEI) will host the third annual Entrepreneur@NU Conference. The theme of the conference is the Emergence of the Midwest as an Entrepreneurship Hub. Tech Cocktail is excited to be a media partner and involved in the day’s events. The event will have speakers from…
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We introduced the Startup Mixology conference last fall in Chicago to offer attendees a chance to learn the various ingredients that go into starting and running a business directly from a solid group of entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and creatives. The event was very well received, so we decided to bring it back on June 16th –…
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New-York based Pipeline Fund Fellowship (PFF) which trains women philanthropists to become angel investors is hosting its first annual conference this Saturday, April 30th with the goal of increasing the number of women who become investors or entrepreneurs. “I launched the Pipeline Fund Fellowship for two reasons: to diversify the investor pool and to create a…
Read MoreNext Saturday, April 9th, the Kellogg School of Management will host the 17th annual Kellogg Tech Conference. The conference continues to be one of the country’s most prestigious and longest running MBA conferences focused on technology and once again, Tech Cocktail is excited to be a media partner and involved in the day’s events. In addition…
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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