As CTO of Threadless, Harper Reed helped grow the community-based company that prints designs created and chosen by users from 2 barely functioning servers to over 45 devices. He also helped Threadless produce a revenue of over $20 million. Reed has since moved on from Threadless and is working on his own secret startup. Harper…
Read MoreWhen Jake Nickell started the popular crowdsourced t-shirt design site Threadless in Chicago 10 years ago, he thought he’d be holding down a typical 9 to 5 with room for a life outside of his t-shirt making hobby. But Jake’s hobbie turned into a real business and has been one of the most interesting crowdsourcing…
Read MoreThis past Saturday, TECH cocktail RACING headed up by Carlos Pero of coloring.com participated in the 2008 Threadless.com Threadle Manss Pine Wood Derby Race and finished in sixth place out of a field of 41. The TECH cocktail car was clocked at 150.0 MPH with a time of 3.2960. This years first place finisher was…
Read MoreSaturday… Saturday … Saturday! Start your engines as Threadless.com, a Chicago-based skinnyCorp operated company and TECH cocktail supporter, will be hosting a Pine Wood Derby race called the THREADLEMANSS. Unfortunately, Eric and I won’t be able to attend as we are pretty busy right now getting ready for TECH cocktail CONFERENCE (did you sign up…
Read MoreWe are in Boulder, Colorado ready to host our first TECH cocktail Boulder in partnership with DEMO and wanted to give you a quick preview. Staying true to our mission six local startups will be showing off their stuff to the crowd of over 250 RSVP’ed attendees. The demos will be done expo-style so that…
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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