Mike O’Brien is one of those serial entrepreneurs that come up with new ideas – and execute them – constantly. He is currently CEO of San Diego-based Climber.com, a proactive career management tool that gives job seekers access to hundreds of thousands of recruiters. He was a co-founder and served as CEO of financialaid.com, which…
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Scenario #1: It’s two days before Christmas. You’re broke. You still need to get last-minute gifts for your colleague, racquetball partner, and cousin. What…Do…You…Do? Answer: Antengo it. Question: What is Antengo? Antengo is the mobile solution for local marketplaces; think Craigslist meets Twitter. Antengo brings free classifieds to smartphones (Craigslist) in 140 characters or less (Twitter)…
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Bye bye, boredom: new mobile app saambaa is ensuring that making plans with friends is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Say you want to grab a few drinks at that new bar downtown tonight. With saambaa, you can set the destination and time, then send the plan a plan to a group of friends…
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We all know that content is “king.” Thoughtful, meaningful, original online content garners high SEO results – true back in the early days of search engines, and still true now. However, if content is king, then smart and thoughtful user-generated content about your company is, well, pure gold. And like gold, you have to sift…
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If you’re not creatively marketing your company on social media with photos and videos, you might as well not be using Facebook or Twitter at all. Make it a lot easier on yourself using a very interesting photo advertising tool developed by 3 former Sony employees. In a nutshell, PhotoTouch lets you take a photo…
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Immersion is the way to go in learning a new language – but if you’re past the period of being an exchange student or can’t pick up and leave your life for months at a time to live in another country, you’ll need to find a new route to proficiency. Sure, there are a lot…
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If you are struggling to find a stylish gift for your vegan sister or animal-rights- activist brother, head on over to Fashioning Change, a just-launched Netflix-type recommendation site for stylish green shopping. Co-founded by Adriana Herrera, who has married her marketing and product development background with her interests in human rights, environmental, and education causes,…
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Judging by the user feedback at SoulSynch, the answer the above question appears to be yes. This San Diego-based startup developed a self-service, personalized online solution to help people improve the way they think and talk about their relationship. “I have many friends and colleagues that have gone through a divorce or are in a…
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We are wrapping up our tour down the California coast with Tech Cocktail’s San Diego mixer tonight, where you’ll get to mingle with tech enthusiasts and meet the teams behind 9 innovative startups. The products and services they will be demoing tonight run the gamut, from a social news reader to an online relationship assessment….
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Since it was founded in 2008, the financial discussion network StockTwits has attracted 150,000 users who post over 10,000 messages a day. These messages reach 40 million readers through streams licensed to CNN Money, Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, and others. Almost 200 public companies have signed up to use StockTwits’s premium version for $499 per month….
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We all know meetings can be long, boring, and unproductive, but San Diego-based startup Human Potential Tools cites some stomach-turning research: According to Forrester Market Research, over 25 million meetings take place every day in the United States alone. In a recent survey of 5,000 senior managers, they stated that 90% of the meetings they…
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SweetLabs recently announced Mixtape, the winner of first Pokki Challenge, “a contest that rewards web developers and designers for creating awesome desktop applications using HTML5.” The panel of four judges received more than 60 innovative applications over the course of just 6 weeks. Mixtape, created by Mohamed Tedjani Metfah, took home the $30,000 grand prize…
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On the tail of our big East Coast festival, including a very special Tech Cocktail mixer event (with 18 startups on hand!), the Tech Cocktail team is planning it’s second trip of 2011 to the West Coast. Events are planned for San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and new to the mix – Phoenix (ok,…
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SweetLabs, the creators of OpenCandy, an advertising network, and Pokki, a desktop app platform, has announced that they have raised a $13 million C Round of funding from Intel Capital. Existing investors Google Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated in the round. The funding will be used to grow Pokki, expanding on the company’s newest platform that lets…
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The Carlsbad, California company with a serious edge, Razer, recently launched the Razer Blade featuring portability, performance, and a unique new user interface. And we have to admit, it’s pretty sexy. Earlier this year at CES, we saw a preview of this concept called the Switchblade, and it was a highlight (and winner) of the show. Now…
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Even though I live in a suburb of a major city, my mobile coverage can be spotty at home, regardless of where I am in the house. I tried switching to wi-fi, and it was worse. If you have the same problem as me, check out San Diego-based Nextivity, which has developed a mobile signal…
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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