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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A new tech accelerator is coming to town: Fortify.vc, a venture fund from Virginia, will begin accelerating some of its portfolio companies at The Fort in DC. The Fort’s launch is supported by a grant of $100,000 from DC mayor Vincent Gray. Initial startups will include Venga and Social Tables – you’ll find them over…
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Early this morning, it was officially announced that Remedy Health Media, a New York-based health information company, acquired Arlington, Virginia-based startup HealthCentral, an online service that offers information, tools, and community access to both patients and caregivers alike. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is now believed to give Remedy Health Medi,…
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Today Washington D.C. based startup HelloWallet, which we’ve covered previously, launched its iPhone application to offer location-based spending guidance. Once you grab the application from iTunes, it will determine your location, display how much is left to spend in your associated budget category and how much has been spent historically at that location. HelloWallet Founder and CEO…
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Fortify.vc isn’t your standard Venture Capital firm, at least not the type of firm we’ve become use to in the DC region. There’s just something different about the firm’s partners Jonathon Perrelli and Adam Fazackerley. They talk differently, they’re approachable and pragmatic where others are distant and theoretical. The most important difference to early stage entrepreneurs…
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Students Helping Startups is an innovative new program at Howard University in Washington, DC. Here’s the concept: There are lots of students learning about marketing and social media, and they need projects to take on for the semester. At the same time, Professor Angela Hausman noticed there are lots of startups out there who may enjoy some help…
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Continuing the race to secure valuable global market share, DC-based LivingSocial has announced they have acquired TicketMonster, one of the leading daily deal sites in South Korea. TicketMonster offers daily and instant deals, travel deals, and events to more than two million members in Korea and Malaysia. The company has grown rapidly from zero to…
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The numbers are out for venture capital fundraising for Q2 2011, and, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the data confirms the queasy feeling that entrepreneurs raising money have felt in their guts this year. In Q2 2011, only 37 funds raised money, which is the 2nd lowest number in any quarter since the bubble…
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Another one bites the dust, packs up their bags, and leaves the DC area for Silicon Valley. Last week, YouEye, a firm that we covered back in February, left town for California. The company has been out on the money-raising circuit since the beginning of the year, received offers of funding at a reasonable valuation…
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Hello white shoe law firm! Meet the pants-around-the-knees, skateboarding, slacker Millennial Generation. How you going to keep them down on the farm now that they’ve seen Paree? You know they aren’t making worker bees like they use to. Old school law firms historically grew on the backs of associates willing to kick, scratch, and bite…
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Daily deals are all about getting what you want, from discounts at your favorite Thai restaurant to free money on Amazon. But now you can use them to help others, too. Deals for Deeds is a DC-based deal site that donates 5-15 percent of purchases to local nonprofits. After launching last year in DC, it…
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Looking to make email communications more focused and pleasant, Shortmail, which we covered previously, has come out of private beta today. Since we previously covered Shortmail’s private beta in March, the 410 Labs team lead by Matthew Koll and David Troy has added the ability to send public as well as private messages. So when you…
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Work for the government, or create the next Facebook, that is the question. Whether it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of startup boom to bust cycles or to work on some of the coolest technology projects while a.) being assured rational working hours, b.) actually being on a first name basis with your kids…
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When you think of tech startups in DC, you probably think of LivingSocial as they are one of the fastest growing startups in the country. But we wanted to see who our readers thought the hottest early-stage, up-and-coming startup in the DC region might be, so we selected over 50 companies and put them into…
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Personal wealth is on the mind of pretty much everyone, in one way or another. HelloWallet, a Washington, D.C. based startup, has made it a mission to help boost their users personal wealth. To do so, HelloWallet has been distributing its online financial tools to employees of Fortune 500 companies and large 401K providers to…
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After I wrote “The West Coast Deal” I started getting thank you notes and congratulations from entrepreneurs. Many of them founders of companies who have been futilely seeking funding in DC. And that’s when I realized I had done the startup world a major disservice. That’s when Mr. Cranky kicked in and I thought it…
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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