Tech Cocktail has been a supporter of the Startup America Partnership since its inception early last year, and now the organization is getting ready to celebrates its first anniversary (next week)! How time flies. It’s been exciting to watch the organization blossom and roll out various programs for entrepreneurs, from Startup Illinois, the first state to launch a program…
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On the tail of our big East Coast festival, including a very special Tech Cocktail mixer event (with 18 startups on hand!), the Tech Cocktail team is planning it’s second trip of 2011 to the West Coast. Events are planned for San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and new to the mix – Phoenix (ok,…
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The hottest technology that everyone is excited about today may be obsolete in just a few years. This week Frank Gruber and Jen Consalvo of Tech Cocktail appeared on Fox News Chicago with Kori Chambers as they shared their opinions on both new and old consumer electronics and gadgets. They covered some of the trends…
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Today I shared some perspective on five years of rallying together and showcasing local startup communities with Startup America. We have covered Startup America several times in the past and were excited to be able to work with them to share our story. Startup America also offers a number of resources for entrepreneurs, so be…
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Starting next week, my Tech Cocktail posts will have a more Eastern bent. After quitting my day job, packing my life into a backpack, and enduring nineteen hours on two planes, I just arrived in Hong Kong to begin a six-month adventure in Asia. China is the world’s second-largest economy, and other strong Asian countries…
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Yesterday we hosted our 5th annual Boston Tech Cocktail summer mixer event. It rallied together the Boston technology community and showcased the latest technology innovations of 20 Boston startups. We were excited to also sign a distribution deal with Boston Globe’s Beta.Boston.com to syndicate some of our articles – you can see our articles here….
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A veteran of the startup world as creative lead at Threadless, Digg and others, Jeffrey Kalmikoff has been leading up the product team at San Francisco-based startup SimpleGeo. I got a chance to sit down with Jeffrey while at South by Southwest to discuss his role, experience, and share his advice for any entrepreneurs looking…
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Gretchen Rubin has had amazing success with her 5th and most recent book, The Happiness Project. Of her previous books, some have succeeded while some never found an audience. When she took on her 5th book, she approached it differently: She found her audience ahead of time and leveraged the Web to build momentum, thus…
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Being in business for the last 21 years, TicketCity.com founder and CEO Randy Cohen, has a lot of war stories. Randy joined us to share some of those stories as well as his tips on being a successful entrepreneur. It all started with a “big epiphany” which opened up Randy’s eyes on how to run…
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Five years ago today, Tech Cocktail hosted its first mixer event in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Over two hundred folks attended the event, where we showcased a handful of local Chicago startups. It’s been amazing to watch Tech Cocktail grow from that single event into a full-fledged media company covering the latest tech…
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We hosted the Startup Mixology Conference in Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago with the goal of having a fabulous line-up of speakers breaking down the various ingredients that go into starting and running a new venture. These ingredients included prototyping, marketing, funding, rainmaking, selling, etc. We succeeded, and now we are excited to share…
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Time flies when you are having fun! That’s exactly what it feels like as we approach Tech Cocktail’s 5 year birthday in just a few short weeks on Thursday, July 21st. It seems like just yesterday that we put out a simple blog post and the community rallied around it to attend and show off…
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Web standards are often formed with great intent to change the way we interface with the web, but lack of adoption by the giants in technology can make or break these standards. In the last decade there have been multiple initiatives to implement microformats for the web such as Yahoo’s SearchMonkey, Google’s Recipe Search, and…
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Have you noticed how many services and apps there are for mobile devices? It takes a lot of time to search for relevant apps and use them. Speaktoit has created a solution for simple and convenient interfaces. The Speaktoit Assistant is a virtual buddy for your smartphone that answers questions in natural language, performs tasks,…
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Tech Cocktail has evolved quite a bit since it first began as a community event in Chicago in 2006. It’s now a full blown media company with a variety of components including our classic tech mixer events in communities across the country, the Startup Mixology Conference series, special video content, newsletters, daily news stories covering…
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After a week in San Diego and LA, we’ll head north to San Francisco to host our classic Tech Cocktail mixer event showcasing a number of local, early stage startups. We invite all friends, technology enthusiasts, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers and social media folks to join us for an evening of fun as we showcase…
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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