We hosted the Startup Mixology Conference in Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago with the goal of having a fabulous line-up of speakers breaking down the various ingredients that go into starting and running a new venture. These ingredients included prototyping, marketing, funding, rainmaking, selling, etc. We succeeded, and now we are excited to share…
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As President, COO, and CoFounder of data visualization/creative agency JESS3, Leslie Bradshaw has been described as the “operational energy” behind JESS3’s explosive growth and international success. The Wall Street Journal recognized her as a Top Woman in Tech Under 30 and the “brains” driving the company forward. Her speech was short, to the point, and…
Read More“SXSW is the essential conference for technologists and social marketers.We like to think of it fondly as our prom. The history and the future are bright for South-by. We hope this timeline does it justice.” – Jesse Thomas, JESS3 You didn’t think you’d get through SXSW without seeing an infographic, did you? DC based data…
Read MoreAs we head into the big game weekend, charge up your device du jour and get ready. The media frenzy is about to start, and here are a few companies ready for the Super Bowl action. Foursquare, which on every other day requires users to check in from a physical location, will allow users to…
Read MoreWikipedia turns ten years old in the month of January. To celebrate the occasion, DC-based creative agency JESS3 created the “The State of Wikipedia” video with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. According to a recent release, Jesse Thomas the founder and executive creative director of JESS3 had this to say about the creation of the Wikipedia…
Read MoreGo to any tech conference these days and you can be pretty sure there will be at least one session on Social Media ROI. And it will be packed. And you may or may not learn anything. But good marketers know that it’s all about tracking key metrics. One large company that decided to implement…
Read MoreThankfulfor, an online gratitude journal community, has released a report ranking what people are most thankful for just in time for Thanksgiving. From a sampling of twenty-five thousand posts, analysts (from the data-mining resources of Crowdflower) identified over 40 separate themes, which were grouped into 10 overarching topics, as seen in the illustration produced by…
Read MoreToday is election day and as proud American citizens we can all head to the ballots to express our right to vote. To help motivate those who might be socially, geo-locally motivated, Foursquare has teamed with DC-based JESS3 to create a new site to track the election polling participation at elections.foursquare.com. JESS3 designed the site…
Read MoreAre you fascinated with space and technology? I am. It was only a matter of time before the paths of social technology and space crossed – now social geo-location has gone to space. Last week, NASA teamed up with Gowalla to create some virtual items that will inspire discovery by connecting people with the places…
Read MoreWelcome to TechCrunch Disrupt 2010! It’s extremely hectic at TechCrunch Disrupt – one might even call it disruptive. Wow, what a first day! There are so many interesting people in attendance including regulars like TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Dave McClure, Reid Hoffman, and many more. Here is a look at some of the…
Read MoreAs a creative agency founder and an entrepreneur I wanted to share my thoughts on how Foursquare will work in the future. It started as a rant about how to improve Foursquare, moved to IM, email, Twitter and Facebook discussions with friends and colleagues, and has evolved into an explanation of how Google and Facebook…
Read MoreIf candidates were required to pass an entrance exam for a career in marketing, the test would have historically included the following analogy: Content :: Design as Substance :: Style. “Business thinking” and “creative thinking” have long been considered discrete disciplines, complementary at best (think: word-heavy Word-doc reports and taking on the task of “prettying…
Read MoreAs we all know, the BP Oil Spill has been gushing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20th, and with no real end in sight it is a sad state of affairs. There have been a number of efforts to stop it as well as various organizations rallying support to try and…
Read MoreWith the Internet a mainstay in almost everyone’s daily life, let’s take a second and reflect on it. To help us reflect, Washington, D.C. based creative agency JESS3 created the motion-graphics, visualization video (above) titled The State of The Internet showcasing lots of data associated with the use of the Web. “I made the video…
Read MoreThis is not a public service announcement but it might remind you of all that you have seen in the past as the Advertising Council is the leading producer of public service advertisements in the United States and just this past week launched, My Ad Council (www.MyAdCouncil.org). The site takes an interactive dashboard approach to…
Read MoreTECH cocktail DC 2 took place last Thursday evening in Washington, D.C. showcasing six startups from the local area along with a number of sponsors. The event united over four hundred guests for an evening of conversations and fun. SOMEWHAT FRANK TV was able to capture some of the evenings happenings on video as episode…
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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