MakerSquare is the kind of idea that inspires ideas. In its simplest form, it is a 10-week, intensive, full-time, full-stack web development program. But if you talk to cofounder Ravi Parikh about the company, the discussion quickly moves from the simple logistics to wider (borderline philosophical) issues about technology, empowerment, community, and innovation. Even Parikh’s…
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With the emergence of services like Google Offers and Groupon, businesses big, small, and in between are utilizing digital coupons and offers to increase their sales. Tim Rothwell and Brett Berman, cofounders of UMeTime, observed an overlooked gap in this industry trend. How can business owners use couponing services to acquire new customers and increase business…
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Today, top startup accelerator TechStars announced the launch of its newest program in Texas: TechStars Austin. Starting in August, a dozen startups will work out of Capital Factory for three months fueled by the traditional TechStars perks, including $18,000 in seed funding and a $100,000 convertible note. It’s not a surprise that TechStars chose Austin…
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You are out to eat. Since you don’t get to go out very often, it’s somewhat of a special occasion. You are feeling adventurous, even. You do not just want to order your “usual” or something you could whip up at home if you were so inclined. But after looking over the menu, the entree descriptions fail…
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Bart Bohn founded AuManil to assist the $40 billion online games market by collecting social gaming data to reduce whale churn, increase whale conversion, improve whale acquisition, and managing whales across a portfolio of games. In the gaming world, “whales” are big money spenders and fanatical users. However, the specific social gaming data regarding these…
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Scared of needles? Hate getting your blood drawn? Fear not, because Jeanette Hill, founder and CEO of Spot on Sciences, is offering health care specialists and patients a new way to collect blood that does not involve venipuncture. HemaSpot, Spot on Sciences’s blood collection device, comes in a kit that can be used anywhere and…
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There is a species of tiny jellyfish that can revert its cells from the adult stage to the young polyp stage, effectively starting its life over and giving it the possibility of immortality. Jellifi COO Kinsey Vallier sees an inspiration here. “With our combined hard work we can ensure that our product has the same staying power,”…
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Baking is always fun, and half of that fun comes from sharing your baked goods with friends and family. Sharing with the public at large, however, is a bit trickier. To help bakers reach new customers across America, Bernard Huang and Hang Su have decided to take the bakery to the Internet with Food by…
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The trend in digital video viewing is shifting to specialized services like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu, and some of the most popular types of web media are music videos. Joel Korpi founded Rockify, a platform to experience music videos anytime and anywhere, to fuse the two worlds of music videos and popular web media together. While…
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In Jason Duncan’s favorite entrepreneurship book, Think and Grow Rich, the author tells the story of a gold mine owner who drills for years and finds no gold. Discouraged, he sells the mine to someone else – who then proceeds to find gold, just a few feet away from where the first guy drilled. The…
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Last night, Tabbedout took home the prize of hottest showcasing startup at our Tech Cocktail Austin mixer. Perhaps it’s because the problem they’re trying to solve – the hassle of paying bar tabs – is so common. Imagine this: it’s 2 am, and it’s time to pay your bar tab. Maybe you’re a little tipsy, and…
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One of the most powerful and inspiring innovations of the modern Internet age, crowdfunding creates opportunities for individuals to raise monetary support to achieve their goals. Campus Slice utilizes the crowdfunding model to help current and prospective college students raise tuition money. For Tony Aguilar, ex-poker-pro-turned-entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Campus Slice, the alarming…
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We get it, you’re busy. You weren’t able to get to every Tech Cocktail post this week. Fear not, because we’ve curated the week’s top 10(ish) posts as determined by the Tech Cocktail editorial team. To get the Tech Cocktail weekly wrap-up direct to your inbox, sign up for the Tech Cocktail newsletter today. This Week’s…
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The average worker spends about three hours of the day sifting through email. You are working on a project when a new email comes in, you read it, and realize your coworker is asking for presentation data from a three-week-old meeting; now, where did you put it? David Johnston, Patrick McGuninness, Curtis Lacy, and Chris…
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Tech Cocktail loves Austin. This is scientific fact. SXSW serves as a festival highlight year in and year out. But it’s been a few years since we’ve had the privilege of hosting a non-SX-inspired Austin Mixer, and quite frankly, it’s been long enough. On April 24th, Tech Cocktail is bringing the Mixer parade back to Texas’s capital…
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While telemedicine – consulting with doctors over the phone – is gaining some popularity lately, another innovation is taking us back to the roots of medical care. Atlanta startup Medicast wants to bring doctors back into your home. Instead of sending a relative to fetch the doctor, as they did in centuries past, you can…
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