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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A hub for all events that occur on or around the college campus, new startup NeverBoredU‘s aim is simple: cure student boredom at all costs. Never again will you miss that nationally-renowned speaker or the next flash rave at the library. More often than not, students overlook all of the events and programs that take…
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Tonight in Chicago, an event called Geek 2 Chic blended fashion with local tech geeks – the tech set strutted their stuff at the all-male fashion show for a good cause. Executive producer Mark Drapeau of Microsoft was joined by master of ceremonies and former Wired cover-girl Julia Allison (shown above), along with more than 20…
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After a short hiatus, I am excited to have the Tech Cocktail team back in Boulder today to host one of our classic Tech Cocktail mixer events. The event will showcase a number of the latest startups from the local area, as well as some of the latest tech innovations from X.commerce and Mapquest. The X.commerce…
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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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When members of the Baltimore real estate and urban development community gathered last month for the second Real Cocktail Baltimore mixer, there was an excitement uncharacteristic of the city officials, architects, investors and developers who were present. Everyone came primed and ready to make a recognizable difference in the city of Baltimore. The conversations were…
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While kids everywhere are returning to school and the weather turns that perfect degree of comfortable (assuming no more hurricanes), we’ll be hosting another Tech Cocktail mixer event to showcase local, early stage startups to a fantastic crowd of tech enthusiasts. We’re super excited to be working with General Assembly, where we’ll be hosting this…
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We are living in a mobile world, and there has been an explosion of activity in the past several months from apps to tablets and other mobile devices. So join us for an evening mingling with other mobile enthusiasts, investors, designers, developers, bloggers and entrepreneurs as we showcase a dozen or so local mobile developers and…
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After you enjoy an evening out at the Tech Cocktail Birthday Bash event, venture out for a different type of evening – at Entrepreneurs Unpluggd, produced by Tech Cocktail contributors Stella Fayman and Tim Jahn. With this series, the two seek to create an intimate, engaging environment for entrepreneurs to learn from other entrepreneurs’ experiences. The…
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TechWomen is a professional mentorship and exchange program enabling women in the field of technology from the Middle East and North Africa to reach their full potential. The pilot program kicked off in April and offered 37 women selected from the Middle East and North Africa a chance to gain valuable mentorship experience by pairing…
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Yesterday, I attended the first ever Twitter Town Hall at the White House featuring President Barack Obama. The event was moderated by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and was well attended. I was extremely thankful and excited to attend the event. I even got to be the last person to shake the President’s hand as he…
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Five years ago today, Tech Cocktail hosted its first mixer event in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Over two hundred folks attended the event, where we showcased a handful of local Chicago startups. It’s been amazing to watch Tech Cocktail grow from that single event into a full-fledged media company covering the latest tech…
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Time flies when you are having fun! That’s exactly what it feels like as we approach Tech Cocktail’s 5 year birthday in just a few short weeks on Thursday, July 21st. It seems like just yesterday that we put out a simple blog post and the community rallied around it to attend and show off…
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After fun stops in San Diego and Los Angeles, we’re at the end of our West Coast tour with our final stop in San Francisco tonight. We have a great lineup of 10 startups, which are previewed below. Thank you to title sponsor Sprint who will be at the show tonight. ShinyArt – Transform your…
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In today’s busy world, the idea of traveling to events is becoming less and less appealing. With virtually everything online these days, an increasing number of events and conferences are now easily accessible via your computer, on your own time. wmbly is an online platform that allows users to create, promote and monetize live and…
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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