Facebook owns social. LinkedIn owns professional. How about recreational? “The bet we’ve made is that people have 3 big persona’s in their life: social, professional, and recreational,” says Gabe Lozano, LockerDome Co-Founder and CEO. ”We want to cover recreational – an area that we believe people are more passionate about than any of the…
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With cash-strapped governments and businesses spending less on R&D in the wake of the economic crisis, innovation may be in jeopardy. Meanwhile, some capital-intensive startups struggle to borrow from friends and family or secure investment from VCs. This was true for entrepreneur Dan Gutierrez, who was building a cloud-based database service called HostedDatabase.com in 2000….
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Simplee, a platform for tracking and paying health care bills, recently launched a fundraising program to benefit medical nonprofits. For every user who signs up for Simplee, the company makes a donation to a nonprofit focusing on a chronic condition like diabetes, heart disease, or cancer. Their first fundraiser benefits the Melanoma Research Foundation in…
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I don’t think that there is one person in this country who thinks our healthcare system is functional, but if there is, here are some new numbers to prove them wrong: A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows 50% of American households certainly or probably would not be able to cope with…
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DC-based Salsa Labs, which provides online organizing and fundraising solutions to nonprofits, associations, and political campaigns, has received a $5 million investment from Edison Ventures, a VC firm that focuses on emerging growth IT companies. Salsa Labs is definitely a startup success story in the making. They bootstrapped for several years and have grown into a…
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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…
Read MoreLast March the Tech Cocktail crew rented a house in Austin for SXSW and was happy to have some entrepreneurs from both coasts stay at the TC Headquarters. One of whom was Dave Lifson, Founder and CEO of NYC-based Postling. Dave came to Austin with a mission – to meet with a number of investors…
Read MoreI first got a chance to meet Jessica Mah at a post conference event in San Francisco in 2007. She was a bright eyed, young entrepreneur who had just moved to San Francisco to pursue her dreams of starting her own company and living the dream. No average teenager, Jessica was only 16 or 17…
Read MoreIn a world where Bill Gates and Warren Buffet can convince over forty billionaires to give away over half of their fortunes, we have reason to believe that a culture of giving is on the rise. And to support that, we’ve seen the proliferation of innovative online support mechanisms such as Giv.to, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Chipin and more….
Read MoreMany of you probably remember the movie Pay It Forward, where the premise was to do something good for somebody and that good deed will come back around to you in some fashion. It is a mantra some firmly live by. Over the last several years we have seen the rise in micro-finance sites, 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