A freshly minted startup here in DC called CoFoundersLab officially launched this past November (on 11/11/11) to fill a void in the startup world: They are a matchmaking platform for tech entrepreneurs, which actually grew out of a successful meetup group. In a highly entertaining call with Cofounder Shahab Kaviani this morning, he articulated what…
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We first met VenueWize when they demo’d their new software at our Tech Cocktail Mixer event in Vancouver this past July. The team was very much focused on their international pilot test in an attempt to best understand event organizers needs when it comes to metrics. Now they have officially launched with their new web…
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Earlier this month, Barcamp Saigon attracted over 800 tech-minded participants to an all-day event in Vietnam’s largest city. Presented in Vietnamese and English, the user-generated talks ranged from the popular “Apple and the Root of Innovation” to technical topics like “Intro to IOS Programming.” Below, two of the co-organizers – Tomo Huynh and Anh-Minh Do,…
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New York Entrepreneur Week wrapped up last Saturday, featuring CEO coach and investor Mac Lipscomb as a keynote speaker. The 20-person organization now has its sights on Chile, where they are sending a delegation in January. This initiative is part of Entrepreneur Week’s expansion to South America, the Middle East, and Europe, which began with…
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StartupBus, which invites entrepreneurs to build prototypes while traveling cross-country, is at the LeWeb conference (December 7-9) in its first European tour. You can meet us at the conference, but you can also meet us at the bus. We can show you around and you can meet our startups, get demos or offer your investment…
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San Francisco startup RAVN’s goal is to help users discover and book “every possible thing they could be doing in their city” – and they mean everything, from gourmet chocolate tours to jiu jitsu training to a pancakes-and-booze art show. This makes their offerings broader than those on similar sites, like Zozi and Kijubi, which…
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This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week, celebrated worldwide from the United States to Romania, India, and Ethiopia. Designed to promote entrepreneurship, the week includes events like Startup Weekends, networking meetups, and demos. Mark Marich, VP Communications of Global Entrepreneurship Week, had this to say about the past, present, and future of the initiative. Tech Cocktail:…
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On the tail of our big East Coast festival, including a very special Tech Cocktail mixer event (with 18 startups on hand!), the Tech Cocktail team is planning it’s second trip of 2011 to the West Coast. Events are planned for San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and new to the mix – Phoenix (ok,…
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Over 50 million Americans between the ages of 13 to 25 live and breathe on Facebook. These same students spend an average of 2 hours connected to this dominant social media site everyday, yet schools and districts across the country block the site due to fear, the threat of cyberbullying, and potential misconduct. Startup TalkChalk…
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Good news: if you are a local business or organization that hosts frequent events, managing them just got easier. Boston-based startup Guestlyst (currently in beta) is an easy-to-use event management portal with some great features not found over at EventBrite or Meetup. With Guestlyst, event hosts can easily customize and publish multiple events and provide…
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From DNA-based water testers to Poopeas and even jetpacks, Tech Cocktail loves innovation and entrepreneurs, whether they are focused on apps, gadgets, gear and even food or supplements – which is what we are looking at today. At last year’s Boston Tech Cocktail event, I was happy to meet Catharine Arnston, an energetic and persuasive entrepreneur who called…
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This week, Foursquare has seen users frantically checking in at Tuesday’s earthquake, and East Coasters are already vying to be a major part of Hurricane Irene. It was behavior like this—where users create a location that’s really an event—that spurred Foursquare to roll out a new feature this month: event check-ins. According to their blog:…
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Want to see the world through others’ eyes? San Francisco-based startup Picturely is a photo streaming utility that searches through Twitter for the latest mobile image uploads. It has been used to unofficially cover the recent Mumbai bombings, Vancouver riots, Madrid protests, and San Francisco Giants wins (and losses). Picturely’s first commercial product is the…
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Today, event organizers can publicize their events by handing flyers to uninterested pedestrians, paying a fee for Meetup.com, or juggling accounts on a handful of social media sites. Or they can use nonBored.com, a free platform for posting and searching public events anywhere in the world. Organizers simply input basic information like time and location,…
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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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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