A year old startup that participated in the minority-focused accelerator NewMe and graduated from 500 Startup just closed a $750k seed round. Silicon Valley-based OneSchool was started by 3 college kids; they develop mobile apps that let students browse campus maps, find course listings, discover nearby restaurants, check sports scores, access a directory of professor…
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It’s Friday. Your plans just fell through. It’s 8pm – the night isn’t getting any younger. You’ve worked hard all week, and you’re determined play. You don’t know what to do. More accurately, you don’t know what there is to do. Sponto does. This DC-headquartered, location-based social networking mobile app allows users to see what…
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Tech Cocktail’s SXSW Startup Celebration 2012 is a very special all day extravaganza. Working with our partners and sponsors, we will create a day long platform on Saturday, March 10th that will include entrepreneurial interviews similar to last year’s Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness interview series and some private events (an outdoor rooftop BBQ, meetups, etc) – all culminating…
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When it gets down to it, it’s really about the impact startups can have on our quality of life and the passion entrepreneurs bring to the table for their audience. That’s what entrepreneur Alexis Juneja shared with us when we interviewed her as part of Tech Cocktail’s Delivering Happiness series. In terms of inspiration, Juneja, co-founder…
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Rohit Bhargava loves the “agony filter” on Hipmunk. Why? Not only because it filters out the multiple stops and 12 hour layovers, but because of the philosophy behind it; leveraging technology to “filter out the idiotic”. And let’s face it – the world needs to filter out more idiotic. Bhargava is the author of Personality…
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After figuring out that you do not need to be a “techie” to start a company, firefighter and paramedic turned journalist Matt Mireles took to tackling the problem that video has on the web – primarily that it’s not indexed the same by Google or other search engines due to its rich non-text format. So…
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When Locai launched at the 2011 SXSW Conference, they were quite taken aback by the competition and the noise surrounding location-based services and apps. They quickly decided to make adjustments to differentiate themselves, so they shifted focus from consumers to businesses and launched a platform that lets you create a community around a brand, retail…
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StartupBus, which invites entrepreneurs to build prototypes while traveling cross-country, is at the LeWeb conference (December 7-9) in its first European tour. You can meet us at the conference, but you can also meet us at the bus. We can show you around and you can meet our startups, get demos or offer your investment…
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Poornima Vijayshankar is a typical startup founder – she loves what she does so much that she jumps out of bed every morning – early. Her company, Bizeebee, helps small businesses with large communities manage all the behind-the-scenes logistics. Their focus right now is on yoga studios and helping them manage customers, track and retain…
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What happens when you grow up as the son of an engineer in Silicon Valley? You get to see the first Mac prototype in 1967 – which didn’t ship for another 17 years. Prolific author and man-about-tech-town Robert Scoble, who was with Microsoft and now leads the Startup charge at Rackspace, has always been into…
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During our SXSW Delivering Happiness tour, we had a chance to talk to Mark Hendrickson, CEO and co-founder of Plancast, an event discovery and sharing platform. He shared his thoughts about all the experimentation with social media currently taking place, how technology can bring you value you didn’t expect, and how the Internet should be…
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How can small businesses manage their money better? That’s the question Jessica Mah asked herself. Inspired by business owners everywhere and the approach that Mint had taken a few years ago, Jessica Mah looked at the unique challenges encountered by small businesses and started inDinero in July 2010 to help every business owner better manage…
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Frank Gruber interviewed Tech Cocktail’s good friend Peter Corbett as part of our Delivering Happiness tour at SXSW in March. If you know Peter, you know to expect an animated conversation, and you’ll see in the video below that he delivers. If you don’t know Peter, his company iStrategy Labs, creates digital and experiential marketing…
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During our Delivering Happiness bus tour at SXSW, Jen Consalvo had a chance to chat with StepCase founder Leon Ho. If you’re not familiar with StepCase, they create simple and flexible mobile photo-sharing apps like Steply, Darkroom, and others. Leon’s wide ranging conversation with Jen covered the company’s background, Leon’s prediction that mobile will become…
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Chris Messina of Google joined us for a great chat with Tech Cocktail’s founder Frank Gruber during SXSW for our Delivering Happiness video series. During the brief conversation, he covered the social web and how important it is to make the web in general more accessible to a wider variety of people, as well as…
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Michael Galpert, co-founder of Aviary, a New York City-based startup, joined me for a chat to share what inspired him to create his startup, why he loves that technology has enabled everyone to be connected and how he looks to help entrepreneurs, as well as share some personal stories about his journey as an entrepreneur….
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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