“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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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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Karl Staib, founder of the blog Work Happy Now, sat down with Frank Gruber during our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour last March to share his views on what makes people happy at work. If you are a startup founder and/or entrepreneur, you are most likely doing the work you love – why…
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How can small businesses manage their money better? That’s the question Jessica Mah asked herself. Inspired by business owners everywhere and the approach that Mint had taken a few years ago, Jessica Mah looked at the unique challenges encountered by small businesses and started inDinero in July 2010 to help every business owner better manage…
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If you’re a creative, you’ll want to watch this short video interview with Scott Belsky, founder of Behance, who spoke with Frank Gruber as part of our Delivering Happiness interview series. Behance is the largest online network of creative professionals in the world. They totally rethought the portfolio so creatives can really show off their…
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Frank Gruber interviewed Tech Cocktail’s good friend Peter Corbett as part of our Delivering Happiness tour at SXSW in March. If you know Peter, you know to expect an animated conversation, and you’ll see in the video below that he delivers. If you don’t know Peter, his company iStrategy Labs, creates digital and experiential marketing…
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Chris Messina of Google joined us for a great chat with Tech Cocktail’s founder Frank Gruber during SXSW for our Delivering Happiness video series. During the brief conversation, he covered the social web and how important it is to make the web in general more accessible to a wider variety of people, as well as…
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The hottest technology that everyone is excited about today may be obsolete in just a few years. This week Frank Gruber and Jen Consalvo of Tech Cocktail appeared on Fox News Chicago with Kori Chambers as they shared their opinions on both new and old consumer electronics and gadgets. They covered some of the trends…
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Last week in New York, we got a chance to sync up with the X.commerce team, which is a new division of eBay. X.commerce includes eBay, PayPal and Magento and will soon be launching a new platform for merchants, payments and beyond. The launch of the platform will take place at the X.commerce Innovate Developer…
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Washington, DC and its entire metro area have produced many successful tech companies in the past. America Online rooted itself in the region a couple of decades ago, and, more recently, companies like Blackboard and LivingSocial have been focal points in the tech-web-entrepreneurial action. Since 2007, we’ve been following, covering and connecting the DC tech…
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It’s that time of the year again and because South by Southwest (SXSW) is a community-driven event, the organizers let the public have a big say in the programming – 30% to be exact – and one way you can get your voice heard is via the 2012 SXSW Panel Picker. Tech Cocktail has submitted…
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Way back in December 2010, we predicted that 2011 would be the year of mobile payment. Boy, were we right! We have already covered 6 different apps/platforms, and I am about to cover a 7th, Venmo, below, an app that has actually been around a while. Tech Cocktail’s co-founder Frank Gruber explained to me that…
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Being in business for the last 21 years, TicketCity.com founder and CEO Randy Cohen, has a lot of war stories. Randy joined us to share some of those stories as well as his tips on being a successful entrepreneur. It all started with a “big epiphany” which opened up Randy’s eyes on how to run…
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I’m fascinated by the way successful entrepreneurs see themselves and the world. That’s why I asked the speakers at this year’s Startup Mixology Conference how they first came to see themselves as entrepreneurs. Their diverse answers prove its never too late (or too early) to start something amazing. Watch the video to find out the…
Read MoreThere are a number of social media and location based services in the market today, but Nick O’Neill, entrepreneur and founder of AllFacebook.com, has been working on a new startup, Holler, which looks to improve the interactions we have between friends. In essence, Holler is a mobile app that is going to make it easy…
Read MoreThis past week at South by Southwest Interactive, Tech Cocktail’s Frank Gruber was on a panel with Uber CEO Travis Kalanick which was moderated by Anya Kamenentz from Fast Company. The panel followed Groupon’s presentation at SXSW for a provocative discussion on the increasingly social marketplace. The session took a look at where social shopping…
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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