It’s a fresh new year, but some of us might not be so excited about returning to the same office we were at in 2011. As you reflect back on the year behind you, do you find yourself thinking about new challenges or a change of scenery? How can you make it the best year…
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Who thought ice tea could be so technologically advanced? PepsiCo, the makers of Brisk Ice Tea, are banking on a couple things that any tech enthusiast, geek or entrepreneur can relate to: Star Wars and mobile gaming. In a key promotion for the company, they have partnered with Lucasfilm, getting behind the February release of Star Wars: Episode…
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Mike Jones, serial entrepreneur, investor and most recently, founder of the new LA technology studio, Science, joined us at the DCWEEK Opening Keynotes last week. Tech Cocktail’s own Jen Consalvo interviewed Jones, discussing his early entrepreneurial days, his success with Userplane which he sold to AOL, and his challenges with MySpace which was eventually sold to…
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Ten more startups launched today as part of the TechStars Seattle startup accelerator program in front of a full house at the Showbox Sodo in Seattle. The day concluded a long voyage for the startups that participated in the 3 month program, which included mentoring, seed capital and probably a pivot or two. In its…
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Since leaving Digg back in March, Kevin Rose has been hard at work building his next company – Milk Inc. Milk is a mobile development shop with plans to build a number of applications. The world got its initial preview of Milk’s first application called Oink at the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago….
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Yesterday in Pittsburgh, Innovation Works’ AlphaLab startup accelerator program launched another 6 companies at its demo day. Twice a year, up to 6 promising companies are selected to participate in the 20 week program. The current group of companies has been at it since June and have worked with mentors, advisors, and the Innovation Works…
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Today in Cincinnati, The Brandery, a startup accelerator that offers a handful of startups a 12-week program that includes $20K in financing as well as access to their partners, mentors and other resources, launched its most recent class of startups. The Brandery was one of the top startup accelerators in our rankings this past May…
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This year, a study by the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that oversees and runs Wikipedia, found that fewer than 1 in 10 editors of the world’s biggest, most popular open knowledge resource are female. This may not seem so alarming to some, but it has others very concerned about how it affects the content of…
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Many people will argue that the thermos is the greatest invention of all time because the darn thing has the basic intelligence to determine that some items are to be kept cold whilst other items are to be kept hot. How does it know? Well, I’m here to tell you that at last week’s Tech…
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Following the Startup Mixology conference, Tech Cocktail invites all friends, technology enthusiasts, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers and social media folks from across the DC region to join us for an evening of fun as we showcase a number of emerging technology companies and take a closer look at their latest achievements. Please join us:…
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After fun stops in San Diego and Los Angeles, we’re at the end of our West Coast tour with our final stop in San Francisco tonight. We have a great lineup of 10 startups, which are previewed below. Thank you to title sponsor Sprint who will be at the show tonight. ShinyArt – Transform your…
Read MoreNext Saturday, April 9th, the Kellogg School of Management will host the 17th annual Kellogg Tech Conference. The conference continues to be one of the country’s most prestigious and longest running MBA conferences focused on technology and once again, Tech Cocktail is excited to be a media partner and involved in the day’s events. In addition…
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Here we go again. All the local buzz is moving back to the “how do we make DC the next Silicon Valley” question. Every time the DC region starts crawling out of the rubble of a tech bubble we start setting our targets on becoming the “Next Silicon Valley” like being Silicon Valley is some…
Read MorePandora Media Inc. announced late last week that they will issue an IPO this year to raise $100 million to grow their business. Now that MP3 players and satellite radio have changed the way we consume music, we had to ask: What does the growth of Internet radio mean for music? Though Pandora hasn’t mentioned…
Read MoreThe new fan management and engagement platform FanGager has the potential to take your social media engagement efforts to the next level by unlocking the potential of your company’s fans. Let’s face it: measuring social media engagement and ROI is extremely difficult and elusive for most of it. FanGager makes it easy. Part engagement tool,…
Read MoreAfter much debate over the years (perhaps going all the way back to 2006), many of us in the DC tech community feel like it’s now a good time to create a new, monthly, in person, official DC Tech Meetup. Modeled after NY Tech Meetup – a 16,000+ person behemoth lead by longtime Tech Cocktailer…
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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