Tech Cocktail has been a supporter of the Startup America Partnership since its inception early last year, and now the organization is getting ready to celebrates its first anniversary (next week)! How time flies. It’s been exciting to watch the organization blossom and roll out various programs for entrepreneurs, from Startup Illinois, the first state to launch a program…
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Today, across America, there are sweeping protests against a pair of anti-piracy bills, SOPA and PIPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act (the House version of the bill) and the Protect IP ACT (Senate version) would give such widespread power to authorities that many content-providing businesses feel it is unconstitutional and threatening to online industry. Google,…
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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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Instead of grumbling about potholes and all those other things their local government has yet to fix, CitySourced users have been making themselves heard since 2009. The Los Angeles-based startup lets users submit video, audio, or photo evidence of local issues related to public safety or the environment: on the app, I saw reports on…
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New technology will continue to play a major part in winning votes and dramatically transforming the election process. If you are part of a political campaign staff or someone who formulates and implements the strategy needed to win an election, you’ll want to be at Vote:Tech. Vote:Tech is happening in collaboration with DCWEEK on Friday,…
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It use to be that he who controlled the message controlled the power. That rule hasn’t changed, but the he has. The former he was big media, dictators, governments, and big business. The new he (and she) is we. Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms have tipped the balance of power. We the people…
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In Korea I witnessed a startup scene still in the process of organizing itself – but its organizers see big prospects for entrepreneurship in their Kentucky-sized country. “This is the best time it’s ever been in Korea to do a startup,” says Richard Min, cofounder of coworking space and incubator Seoul Space. “It’s a perfect…
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Entrepreneur Cory Kidd finished a PhD at MIT, so Boston was an obvious choice for starting a company. He also thought about moving to Silicon Valley, but this Louisiana-born American decided to cross the globe to start up in Hong Kong – and he’s not the only one. “We took our company a lot further…
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With the U.S. government working hard to resolve the debt ceiling crisis before defaulting for the first time in history, a report today in the Financial Post seems to add insult to injury as Apple appears to have more cash on hand than the U.S. government. That’s right, Apple is more liquid than one of…
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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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Today social gaming giant Zynga filed a form S-1 with the SEC. The document shares a number of insights with the public for the first time since their rise to online gaming domination. The filing has Zynga to raise almost $1 billion from the IPO. Underwriters include Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Barclays…
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Work for the government, or create the next Facebook, that is the question. Whether it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of startup boom to bust cycles or to work on some of the coolest technology projects while a.) being assured rational working hours, b.) actually being on a first name basis with your kids…
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Uncle Sam is now developing iPhone apps. Seriously. Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) launched a time-tracking app for smartphones that tracks an employee’s hours worked, and by doing so, puts employers across the nation on notice. The government-issue technology is fairly basic and has good intentions (protecting employees), but it carries far-reaching implications….
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With 2008 being the first elections that utilized social technology like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for political campaigns, we named Barack Obama the first Tech President. We expected that to continue in 2012, so we were excited to see the news that longtime Tech Cocktail supporter and former Threadless CTO Harper Reed is the CTO…
Read MoreIn the past, communication with your elected officials could be a difficult and lengthy process that didn’t always result in a response. Votizen directly connects registered voters to their Congressperson automatically in real-time while validating their voting history—all from one text! By verifying that each voice belongs to a real voter in the real world,…
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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