The entrepreneur that brought you a wealth of hilarious and embarrassing text messages is now devoting her time to Banters, a platform for sharing quotes. Cofounder Lauren Leto started the site, then called Bnter, in 2010. It recently changed its name to Banters and launched a new iPhone app that integrates with Siri for recording…
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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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Today Tech Cocktail COO and Executive Editor Jen Consalvo will be on NPR in Washington, DC as a guest on the popular Kojo Nnamdi Show. The title of the show is “The Tech Sector and The Glass Ceiling.” We cover lots of women in technology on TechCocktail.com, so we are excited to have the opportunity…
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In between Cosmo and Glamour, there isn’t much in the way of content aimed at young women beyond celebrity news, sex tips, and what shoe is hot for fall. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course – it’s really fun – but it’s not comprehensive or focused on delivering content for all the confident, ambitious,…
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With the daily deal market overflowing, how can new entrants possibly hope to compete?Sharing Spree, which combines deals with charity like Deals for Deeds, can teach us a thing or two. The site has expanded to three cities and donated over $152,000 to nonprofits in a year. Users pick from around 150 charities to receive…
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With careers, kids, and social activities, women have never been busier. Combine Couture, an online luxury retailer, believes that shopping shouldn’t suffer just because your calendar is full! Combine Couture is an online shopping destination featuring multiple retailers and hundreds of designers all in one place. This one-stop retailer is poised to be the Amazon.com…
Read MoreUnless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve probably noticed some, er, heat in the media about women, or the lack thereof, in the technology space and specifically in the tech-speaker circuit. So today, it’s with great pleasure we get to introduce you to Allyson Kapin, founder of Women Who Tech – a group that not…
Read MoreIt was only a matter of time and leave it to three women from Harvard University to fill in the media marketplace hole for providing content targeted directly to college women across the U.S. at Her Campus. Launched in September 2009, the trio’s mission also includes redefining the future of online magazines by individualizing content,…
Read MoreThe topic, sadly, isn’t a new one. Perhaps more sadly than that, however, is the fact that it doesn’t seem likely to end tomorrow. By “that” I mean the theme of women in technology and business, or more accurately the dearth of them. On Sunday, April 18th Claire Cain Miller wrote a story, “Why So…
Read MoreThis morning, Allyson Kapin, Susan Mernit, Charlene Li, and Deb Schultz led an intimate conversation at SXSW about business and industry challenges with regard to gender (and more) and what they’ve done to be successful. The panel set the tone by taking a collaborative approach from the onset, having the group vote for the Twitter hashtag…
Read MoreWhat a name, right? I was honored to be invited as a member of the panel (with such an exciting name!), talking to local businesswomen about social media last night at the TRAK office in downtown DC. Here’s a recap of the experiences I relayed, some pictures (yes, I whipped out my extra-large camera while…
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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