Mayank Mehta, co-founder of Cooliris, stopped by our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour in March to chat with Frank Gruber. Mayank is kind of a startup old-timer at this point, since Cooliris was founded way back in 2006 when the Internet was evolving from a very tech-centric to a media-centric medium. Cooliris, if…
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If you are an obsessive social media user with a sense of adventure, LA-based startup Chatterpop, which demo’d at our Tech Cocktail Los Angeles mixer last week, has developed an easy-to-use video app with a social learning underpinning. The vision behind Chatterpop is to create a new way to make, share, and experience the world…
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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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Washington, DC-based video indexing and discovery platform Veenome has announced that they’ve raised a seed round of $500,000 from Ecosystem VC (Investors in Tube Mogul and Facebook), private angel investors from Google, Dingman Center Angels and others. Not bad for just 6 months out of the gate. Veenome identifies products, objects, and brands in web…
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Last Wednesday night at the DCWEEK Opening Keynotes, an interesting mix of technologists and social anthropologists took the stage at Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. and talked to over a thousand tech enthusiasts about mobility, innovation and the future. One of Tech Cocktail’s good friends Brian Solis had many fans in the crowd and shared…
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Intel, a company that, as an innovator in the development of new technology, has propelled the computing industry forward, launched a new program, Intel Innovators, to help young innovators propel their big ideas. Staying true to its current slogan “sponsors of tomorrow,” the Intel Innovators program searches to find and reward the brightest ideas they…
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Tonight in Chicago, an event called Geek 2 Chic blended fashion with local tech geeks – the tech set strutted their stuff at the all-male fashion show for a good cause. Executive producer Mark Drapeau of Microsoft was joined by master of ceremonies and former Wired cover-girl Julia Allison (shown above), along with more than 20…
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Please tell me you’ve seen this video of a University of Oregon quarterback picking his nose during the last seconds of the BCS National Championship game. Yes, you heard me right: the fourth quarter’s ticking down, a championship’s on the line, and QB Darron Thomas is caught digging for gold on national television. Claaaassic. Thanks…
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If you’re looking for a new way to engage with your target market and cut through the noise on social media, check out Vizlingo, a new platform that animates each word of a message or post with a video clip. For now, you can only copy the link to the video and share it on…
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Washington, DC and its entire metro area have produced many successful tech companies in the past. America Online rooted itself in the region a couple of decades ago, and, more recently, companies like Blackboard and LivingSocial have been focal points in the tech-web-entrepreneurial action. Since 2007, we’ve been following, covering and connecting the DC tech…
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We’ve seen glimmers of the convergence of 3D photos and videos with smartphones (like these) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the past couple of years. Yet until recently, most have only been available in Asia. This past summer, HTC released the EVO 3D on the Sprint Network, bringing 3D to the masses. To…
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Ever wish there were traffic cameras everywhere so you could find out what the scene is like at your favorite bar, restaurant or hangout? One San Francisco-based startup is looking to help solve that problem with its latest creation, the Crowdmug application. Crowdmug just launched for iPhone – it enables people to put a bounty…
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If you produce video, audio, images, documents, apps, or any other digital content, a new Chicago-based startup can help you quickly and easily set up an online store to sell and deliver content to your target market. DailyDigital provides a professional, free SaaS for digital publishers via digital storefronts that embed on any web or…
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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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Social media is for losers. Do you agree or disagree? Some folks, like Charlie Sheen, have leveraged social media to feel like a “winner.” Others have seen it turn them into losers, where all they do is live for the next FourSquare check-in, Instagram “like,” Facebook photo tag, or clever Twitter-trending hashtag. Sometimes it’s nice just to…
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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