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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In 2006, when Jeff Howe hailed “The Rise of Crowdsourcing,” the phenomenon was unfamiliar even to his Wired audience. Five years later, “crowdsourcing” is an overused buzzword and websites are swarming with free content. To restrain the masses, many of them are applying filters: it’s the rise of curated crowdsourcing. Released in theatres in July,…
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As your startup grows into a bona fide company, things will change. Your product will change, your audience might change, pricing and features will change, and your entire business model could change. When that happens, you could have to rebuild your company bootstrap style. As President of GeniusRocket, the first curated creative crowdsourcing company, Peter…
Read MoreCrowdsourcing has been used in a number of ways on the Web over the past five or so years. From Wikipedia crowdsourcing its open encyclopedia project, to Threadless crowdsourcing designs for tee shirts, to Crowdspring and 99Designs crowdsourcing graphic design, crowdsourcing has been a staple to the Web 2.0 and social media era. Washington, D.C….
Read MoreCrowdsourcing is nothing new but the Web has made it easier than ever to tap into a crowd of people for help. This article looks at a number of different businesses that leverage crowdsourcing but left out some of our favorites which include GeniusRocket and CrowdSpring. Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com Tapping the Wisdom of the Crowd…
Read MoreWe are excited to bring TECH cocktail to DC for a third time. If you missed the first two be sure to check out the TECH cocktail photos. The event, with the support of our sponsors DBC PR, LinkTogether, and GeniusRocket will be held at MCCXXIII on Thursday, Oct 2 from 6:30 to 9. Click…
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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