This past week entrepreneurs and VCs headed to Washington, D.C. to unite and rally support for the Startup Visa Act. The group met with a variety of federal representatives to brief them on the bill, including the White House, State Department, Commerce Department, DHS, SBA, and members of congress. The bill, introduced by Senators John…
Read MoreFunny or Die, the online comedy video site founded by Will Ferrell, released a new video today taking on U.S. financial reform. It’s an All-Star cast, produced by Ron Howard and written by Adam McKay and Al Jean. The video (below) titled Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion posted by Will Ferrell brings together all the actors…
Read MoreFedScoop, the local DC government media and marketing company headed up by Goldy Kamali, announced there next event coming up on March 9th, called FedScoop’s Roadmap to the Cloud. This event looks like another great one to attend. I was fortunate enough to be able to make their last event, Cloud Computing Shootout, that had…
Read MoreToday the White House announced the White House iPhone application to help connect people to real-time updates, news, photos and video via their mobile phone. This is a historic technological advancement for the U.S. government as they have never released a mobile application like this before for any platform (Blackberry, Palm, iPhone, etc). The application…
Read MoreToday the White House unveiled a White House iPhone application which will deliver dynamic content from WhiteHouse.gov to the palm of your hand. The White House app helps you stay up to date with the White House Blog and the latest from the Briefing Room. You can browse behind-the-scenes photos and watch on-demand videos. The…
Read MoreThe Kauffman Foundation State of Entrepreneurship Address was presented by Kauffman President and CEO Carl Schramm at the National Press Club in Washington, DC today. I was on hand to see it live and the event was also streamed live on the Internet. I posted some photos here. Schramm assessed the outlook for entrepreneurship in…
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I recently spoke on a panel about social networking & the 2008 election and at the time I went out on a limb and predicted that Barack Obama would win the election. He was not projected to win by anyone at the time but he was leveraging technology to communicate with people through a number…
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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
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
We are excited to announce the participating startups for Tech Cocktail's South by Southwest (SXSW) event: #Startuplife Celebration presented by .CO. It was one of... 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