Mayank Mehta, co-founder of Cooliris, stopped by our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour in March to chat with Frank Gruber. Mayank is kind of a startup old-timer at this point, since Cooliris was founded way back in 2006 when the Internet was evolving from a very tech-centric to a media-centric medium. Cooliris, if…
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Sharing photos, videos, and links with family and friends online is a great way to keep in touch, especially with people who live far away. Sharing shouldn’t be hard, but we often have to use multiple applications, which doesn’t exactly facilitate the process–not to mention make it fun. With the new web and moblie app Minus, you can upload…
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Ever wonder where your meal comes from? Foodies may have a new obsession as one forward-thinking company is trying to answer that exact question. Foodtree amplifies the power of social sharing with a snazzy new iPhone app that launched last weekend. We’ve all heard the scary statistics: multiple cows in one burger, or the fact…
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In today’s connected world, personal recommendations mean everything. Bre.ad is a new way to share what you love and to get tips about what’s hot, according to your friends. The founders of Bre.ad believe that sharing recommendations for your favorite causes, brands, and interests should be easy and free for everyone. There’s enough meaningless advertising…
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Did you know that the average power drill gets used for approximately 12 minutes in its entire lifetime? Or how about the fact that 80% of the stuff we own gets used less than once per month? Americans own so much junk that we spend $22 billion a year on storage space. There is a…
Read MoreWord of mouth is one of the best ways to get business or hits to your site for two reasons: It’s free It has better conversion rates than other forms of marketing But word of mouth can also be one of the most difficult forms of marketing. Campaigns can be very hard to get started,…
Read MoreThe year 2009, has come and gone and with it lots of sharing has taken place on the Web. AddThis, a Washington, D.C. based start-up, helps website publishers and bloggers spread their content across the web by making it easy for visitors to bookmark and share content to their favorite social destinations. In doing so,…
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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