First daily deal sites start sprouting like mushrooms. Then daily deal site aggregrators. Then location-based marketplaces. Now it looks like it’s social music’s turn. There are currently 3 social music platforms out there: Turntable.fm was first out of the gates – we covered them back in June. You can create or join listening rooms to…
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For bemused travelers, touring an exotic country can be less than exotic: a blur of sterile tourist traps, long lines, and overpriced restaurants. But a startup called Shiroube helps tourists have authentic experiences by connecting them with locals offering personalized tours. “My goal is to connect everybody in the world in a new way,” says…
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Americans spend an average of 50 minutes per day engaged in an activity that increases both carbon emissions and frustration levels. This activity is our daily commute, and it’s clogging our roadways and costing us a small fortune. What if you could swap your typical commute for reduced stress, a lighter carbon footprint, and friendly conversation–all…
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Love is in the ether: 21% of Americans see the Internet as a good place to find a boyfriend or girlfriend, according to a survey by BBC World Service. And a new Chicago startup called Soulseekr is making it as effortless as possible for them to get dates. “I wanted to work on something that…
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CityPockets, the NYC-based startup that was part of LaunchBox Digital’s first NC class earlier this year, has had a busy summer. In case you are not familiar with them, CityPockets is the very first digital wallet and secondary marketplace for daily deals. Not only did they release iPhone and Android apps yesterday, but they also…
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Entrepreneurs are inspired to take action when they see opportunities others have missed. Northwestern University graduate student and founder of BragTaggs, Christopher Sell, found that friends and family alike loved to share the great deals they found. An entrepreneur with two startups on his resume, he began researching loyalty marketing, which fostered the idea of…
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We’ve covered local DC education startup CampusSplash a few times over the past several months as they’ve rolled out products such as AdmissionSplash and DormSplash. Their products have been gaining traction, but the main site, CampusSplash, has been primarily a blog publishing related content – until now. Beginning today, CampusSplash now has a new identity as…
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Photography has been an important part of my life in a number of ways. I am a photographer and authored a guide to better photography, spent years helping AOL build the You’ve Got Pictures product with Kodak, then morphed it into a standalone digital uploading service for AOL, and within that time used countless other photo…
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We all have our favorite ways to find places to eat, shop or play. But whether you are a religious Yelp user, or you strictly look for places your friends have checked-in to already on Foursquare, we all end up doing what Tapl.io co-founder Dave Riess calls the ‘Google Search Dance’. We search for…
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Have you ever waited on hold and thought, “Wow–this is 20 minutes of my life I’ll never get back?” Earlier this year, Tech Cocktail covered FastCustomer, a DC-based startup offering a web application that calls the customer support team for you so you don’t have to wait on hold to be connected. The FastCustomer team has…
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As the world becomes increasingly complex and information-intensive, organizations need a way to make sense of data and harness it to solve the problems of the future. Predictive analysis startup Quid is helping organizations do just that. Quid creates analytical software for companies, NGOs, banks and funds. Using open source intelligence, Quid captures data, structures it,…
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Managers, if you’re tired of spending valuable time with unqualified applicants, VidCruiter may be able to streamline your hiring process. VidCruiter provides virtual interview software offering a combination of video tools to reduce time spent on hiring and increase the quality of candidates. VidCruiter’s screening and filtering tools automatically rank applicants for you, allowing you…
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Giving presentations involves plenty of hard work and coordination. Just when you think everything is planned, problems can crop up, threatening to ruin your presentation. From incompatibility issues between computers and devices to incorrect input jacks, keeping it all running smoothly is a challenge. Alpha Slides is a new app to save you from the embarrassment of…
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This week SilvrSpoon celebrates the launch of their mobile restaurant platform. Served on iPhone or Android devices, SilvrSpoon is part interactive menu, ordering platform, restaurant review site, loyalty program and restaurant market research tool. You can do a lot with this app: Explore a restaurant’s menu via an interactive format that provides ingredient details View…
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There’s no doubt now that the web has gone social, but f4samurai is taking social to an area that may surprise even the hippest tech watchers: the alarm clock. Founded in January 2010, the Tokyo-based application and game developer launched a free iOS app last month called Alarm Everyone. “Alarm Everyone […] will enable you…
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Today in Boulder was TechStars demo day at the Boulder Theater as the top ranked U.S. startup accelerator program launched it’s latest class. We’ve been covering the TechStars Boulder program since it’s inception and you check out last years class here. This year, lead by Nicole Glaros and the founding team of David Cohen and…
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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