Chile is aspiring to become a “global innovation hub” with Start-Up Chile, enticing startups to travel across the world for US$40,000 in equity-free seed capital and one-year work visas. 154 companies were selected on Friday for its latest class, and one of those is Hong Kong startup Flipter, which will be heading to Chile for…
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Apple reported that iPhone sales almost quadrupled in the Asia-Pacific region in the third quarter of 2011, while rising 142.2 percent overall – the sign of an expanding market abroad. Meanwhile, many startups target local or national audiences, missing out on millions of users. Hong Kong startup OneSky helps developers reach those users by streamlining…
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If you want to connect with someone today, you have lots of options. You could email, Facebook message, tweet or direct message, IM, call, or use a carrier pigeon. With the number of ways to communicate continually growing, it has become difficult to stay up to speed with them all. For example, if someone sends…
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Education startups are popping up everywhere, but education is still a slow-moving, tradition-heavy space. Boston startup iCreate to Educate, which produces movie-making software for the classroom, has experienced this firsthand. “The education market is so difficult to penetrate, particularly when you’re bootstrapping,” says founder Melissa Pickering, who previously managed operations at the Tufts Center for…
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They say the first impression is everything. As an employer, oftentimes you know within the first few minutes of meeting someone if that candidate isn’t quite the right fit for your organization. As a potential hire, you can spend hours sweating bullets over how to nail the perfect first impression. Enter Take The Interview (“TTI”),…
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Some like it hot – and some don’t. And that’s OK, especially when you’re using the taste-based search engine, Yummly. Yummly, a semantic search engine for recipes, announced a spicy new addition to its search parameters this week. They also announced that it’s serving over 2 million unique visitors a month – almost half of…
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In a viral video last week, a Canadian man set up a surprise wedding for his girlfriend and then proposed to and married her on the same day. The blushing bride, rather than bemoaning the loss of her wedding-planning fun, was ecstatic. “So much stress is alleviated,” she said. “I don’t even have to think…
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Whenever I find myself entering credit card details online, I often have that slight fear in the back of my head that I’m going to end up receiving a year of complimentary identity theft protection after the merchant regrets to inform me that they’ve been hacked. A recently launched startup called Jumio is finding an…
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If you produce video, audio, images, documents, apps, or any other digital content, a new Chicago-based startup can help you quickly and easily set up an online store to sell and deliver content to your target market. DailyDigital provides a professional, free SaaS for digital publishers via digital storefronts that embed on any web or…
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Here at Tech Cocktail, we cover startups that have a handful of founding team members. When you’re small, communicating, sharing information, and collaborating is easy. On the other end of the spectrum, you have vast corporations with tens of thousands of employees spread out around the world. In companies of this size, finding information or…
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Industries that rely on employees who work shifts, including healthcare, manufacturing, call centers, retail, transportation, and hospitality, lose a lot of money to sick time, absenteeism, and turnover. A new product from eTripTrader called SkedFlex can change that. The idea behind SkedFlex is simple: allow employees to trade shifts with coworkers in order to better…
Read MoreContinuing our focus on Champaign, IL startups, today we’re looking at ZingZag!, a software download that enables anyone to create a rich media Facebook Fan page (or other sites). The majority of Fan pages out there don’t take full advantage of the opportunity (we’re including ourselves in that bucket), using the standard options that Facebook…
Read MoreEver been on a conference call when it was obvious that half of the people are tuned out? Weave the People wants to end that common practice and increase the productivity of meetings with their Weave software platform, which provides an engaging way to view the people in a room and make more productive connections….
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Tech Cocktail is happy to partner with the Idaho Tech Council on this special develop.idaho and Tech Cocktail Boise Mixer event. Event Details April 20, 2011 develop.idaho 1:00pm – 5:30pm Tech Cocktail Mixer 6:00pm – 9:00pm Linen Building, 1402 Grove St, Boise
Read MoreBaltimore-based startup SocialToaster, which will be showcased at our Baltimore mixer on March 3, is a social marketing and reporting platform that significantly increases traffic to an organization’s website using electronic word-of-mouth referrals. How significant, you ask? Their service claims to be up to ten times more effective than search engine marketing or other traditional…
Read MoreThis past weekend San Diego based startup OpenCandy, focused on helping software developers make money and reach new users, rallied together developers to host the first annual Hackathon SD event in San Diego. The event was aimed at bringing together developers and hackers from across southern California for a weekend of creative development. During the event,…
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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