In the weeks and months leading up to elections, news outlets conduct poll after poll and jostle to predict who will win. What if they had predictions updated minute by minute, based on an even larger audience? This is the idea behind ElectionGauge, a DC-based startup that analyzes Twitter response to events. Predicting election results…
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Now that Timeline is becoming mandatory, Facebook users are scrambling – some begrudgingly – to pick cute and clever cover photos. For the uninspired, a new Android app helps you choose cover photos that are sure to pick up some “likes.” Facebook Timeline Covers: D33P lets you input photos from your albums, your newsfeed, or…
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Craigslist, you best watch your back: others have you in their crosshairs. The next attempt at disrupting the local marketplace giant comes from Uniiverse, “the world’s marketplace for collaborative living.” Think Airbnb for a wider set of services and skill sharing- a mojito tasting class (put on by the Uniiverse CEO no less), a ride share from Berkeley to…
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Simplee, a platform for tracking and paying health care bills, has hit on one of the best forms of advertising: free money. During February, the Palo Alto startup will give you a $10 discount on a medical bill paid through its system. Just use the code “promo-10” when checking out – current and new users…
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The #2 team in the conference is the Whitman Vikings, who played the conference-leading, defending state champion Churchill Bulldogs this past weekend. The two teams had played 4 weeks earlier in a hotly contested, down-to-the-wire game that ended with a late tie breaking goal for the Bulldogs. On that night, the undefeated Bulldogs handed the…
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Imagine using your media center as a server for your startup. You’re sitting there, watching Netflix, and suddenly, everything goes down. You realize your server just got hit because the Denver Post started using your startup. It happened to Paul Kenjora, and he proceeded to raise $1.5 million for that very same tech startup…in Arizona….
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Just in time for New York Fashion Week, much like Clothia, new startup StyleMusee is helping men and women discover fashion inspiration that matches their personal styles. The NYC-based company is setting out to be the fashion industry’s hub on Facebook, bringing the social offline shopping experience online. StyleMusee has identified and classified nearly one thousand style…
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Three years ago, James Khoo’s sister drove her car into a tree and was knocked unconscious. She was hurried to the hospital with the help of passers-by, but Khoo and his family didn’t know what happened for several days. “Those 3 days were very torturous for us,” he recalls. Inspired by that experience, and a…
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For a new generation of students, “test prep” will no longer conjure up the image of sleepy, 3-hour Kaplan classes or 10-pound Barron’s SAT books. One startup ushering in the digital age of studying is Chicago-based BenchPrep, backed by Lightbank. Founded in 2009, BenchPrep has recruited more than 150,000 students to their online learning platform…
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Marshall Seese’s reasons for starting social gaming company Mowgli Games were clear. “Simply put, it pissed me off that money like that could be made from a game where people spent all their time making something fake,” he said, in reference to Zynga’s wildly popular Farmville. “So from there I decided that social gaming would…
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New Year’s resolutions: easy to make, easier to break. If you’re still struggling to get into a regular exercise routine, sleep more, eat healthier, drink less alcohol and more water, a new web app called RoutineTap just might come in handy. The nice thing about this Lisbon, Portugal-based progress-tracking app is that it’s customizable. You…
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Many women can sympathize with one of Audrey Melnik’s romantic mishaps: she had a promising date – drinks led to dinner, then the guy gave her a goodnight kiss and walked her to the car – but she never heard from him again. “I felt quite helpless in this situation, where if I was to…
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What’s the bottleneck in your laundry operation? This may seem like a silly question, but for entrepreneurs, whose time equals serious money, mundane tasks like doing laundry can either eat into your bottom line or spare time. One is valuable, the other invaluable. Chances are, the answer to the above question is likely socks or…
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Spring will soon be in the air, and that means hundreds of thousands of weddings are literally being planned as I write this. Those of you who have tied the knot already know the planning process can be a marathon event as you make hundreds of decisions all leading up to the big day. A…
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As someone who has spent his last three months in the liberal haven that is Boulder, Colorado, it’s hard to imagine that there are any fast food restaurants still in business out here. The only thing Boulderites seem to agree on more than politics is their health. If it isn’t free range, organic, hormone-free, and…
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I’m a native New Yorker, so I am pretty psyched that the Giants are playing in the Super Bowl today. Still, I have to admit – I watch the Super Bowl for the commercials – but I really look forward to the game because it’s a great excuse to cook some awesome food and open…
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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