The Ivy League school whose super-famous dropouts Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have revolutionized our lives has launched an incubator. The Harvard innovation lab, or i-lab, will bring together students with big ideas with the entrepreneurs, faculty, and those in the Boston area who can help get those big ideas off the ground. They are…
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Over 50 million Americans between the ages of 13 to 25 live and breathe on Facebook. These same students spend an average of 2 hours connected to this dominant social media site everyday, yet schools and districts across the country block the site due to fear, the threat of cyberbullying, and potential misconduct. Startup TalkChalk…
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Students Helping Startups is an innovative new program at Howard University in Washington, DC. Here’s the concept: There are lots of students learning about marketing and social media, and they need projects to take on for the semester. At the same time, Professor Angela Hausman noticed there are lots of startups out there who may enjoy some help…
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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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For most students, Facebook is the perfect partner-in-crime if you want to procrastinate during finals week. But new Facebook application Hoot.Me is turning the social network into a collaborative study tool. Hoot.Me allows users to switch their Facebook experience into “study mode,” meaning that students can see what their friends are working on and join…
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While some college towns tend to empty out during the summer months, DC comes alive with students from around the country who come to intern at some of the country’s best companies, and of course, the US Government. But there’s another option that students might not be aware of. Tech startups. There are lots of…
Read MoreRockstar career trajectories aren’t about playing it safe. Luckily if you’re in school, starting a business might be the smartest risk-free career move you could make. As a graduate student by day and the co-founder of a social wishlist startup, Present Bee by night, here are my top 7 reasons for starting a company while…
Read MoreDo you know someone looking for a summer internship? TECH cocktail is looking for summer interns. Aside from hosting our popular mixer events and our upcoming conference, both of which are “cocktails of tech people,” we are working on some other community projects and need a hand. Do you have a son, daughter, friend neighbor,…
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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