Since the Washington, D.C. region is so spread out with Maryland, Virginia and The District making up the unique area, finding a central hub for tech startups has been something the region has struggled with. Last year The Fort, a startup accelerator and work space, opened up shop near the White House to offer capital…
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A new economy means new jobs, new employees, a new ethos. Freelancers, consultants, creative professionals, and solo-preneurs have taken main stage, but the way in which they work and find work still lags behind. Miki Johnson is attempting to solve this with Parsec.co, a team-building tool powered by a project-focused social network. Current highlight projects range from iOS productivity…
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Big advertising agencies should be scared of startup ZoomTilt, and for good reason. You see, switched on marketing executives around the world are wondering why production costs are so inflated when it comes time to shoot their next commercial, why their agencies always push for television when the cut-through just doesn’t seem to be there, and…
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According to Bright Funds, the San Francisco startup takes a “mutual funds approach” to charity donations. Donors choose a broad cause – poverty, education, health, water, or environment – and then Bright Funds allocates that money to a variety of nonprofits working on different aspects. For example, “water” includes organizations tackling clean water, sanitation, hygiene,…
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Boise State University, along with other research universities, has officially launched GoGo Labs, a startup company that developed educational gaming platform 3D GameLab. GoGo Labs founder Dr. Lisa Dawley, a national expert on learning environments and a former professor and chair in Boise State’s Department of Educational Technology, developed the software with educational technology faculty…
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Have you ever had a space on the walls of your home that you just couldn’t seem to fill? Maybe you tried a variety of paintings, a couple of pieces of metal wall art, or even some type of sconce scenario, but nothing could quite inhabit the space the way you pictured it in your…
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Today, Korean startup KnowRe announced $1.4 million in funding from SoftBank Ventures Korea to help them bring their smart math education tool to the United States, soon after winning Google’s Global K-Startup Competition. Traditional math problems are problematic because they’re so complex. Take this simple algebra problem: x/2 + 2/3 = 2 Even here, you…
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Another sign that the L.A. tech scene is diverse and growing, YieldMetrics announced a seed round of $1.7 million, led by GRP Partners. It’s no surprise that this round was coming, given that YieldMetrics is already profitable, with more clients than the two founders, CEO Gabe Gottlieb and CTO Tom Lorimor, can handle. These two former…
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When Anton Willis moved to San Francisco, he had to retire his kayak – after all, a 12-foot-long boat takes up too much valuable square footage. That’s when the idea for a folding kayak took shape, literally. Along with cofounder Ardy Sobhani, he raised over $440,000 on Kickstarter for the new Oru Kayak, a 12-foot-long,…
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Today, email ad network Launchbit launched a free report card tool that grades your email newsletter and offers tips for improvement. The report card looks at statistics like open rate, click-through rate, (un)subscribe rate, and spam complaints for your 2012 emails. Based on all that, you get a letter grade of A-F. It also compares…
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Have you ever spent time visiting nearby attractions instead of sitting at the casino table? I know I have, especially in Las Vegas. Not limited to the grand musical shows by the Blue Man Group, the dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment of Cirque du Soleil, the magnificence of Mandalay Bay’s Shark Reef,…
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The spark that often ignites a startup can be powerfully driven by an individual’s experience and the marketplace opportunity that unfolds before them. For Rebecca O’Dell, founder and CEO of San Francisco-based startup StylSavvy, her online shopping experiences felt disconnected from what she was looking for as a shopper. Items were organized by category, making…
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What should I do tonight? It is a common question and a universal problem. Finding something to do in your town is not always the easiest thing. That is, until now. Impulcity, a recent graduate from the top 15 nationally ranked accelerator The Brandery, is launching an app in a few weeks that will help answer…
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Classrooms around the world are becoming more efficient every day. New technologies in the field of education are taking some of the burden off of teachers by helping students to become more successful learners. While many of these new innovations focus on how teachers teach, a few are coming out that are designed solely for the…
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It was a Craigslist experience that wouldn’t soon be forgotten. Rajan Babaria saw the vivid downside of the popular ecommerce site when he went to pick up a flat-screen TV from a seller. “As I arrived in a dilapidated parking lot, the ‘seller’ approached me with a knife while demanding money. Luckily, I had a…
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We’re excited to announce that Tech Cocktail will be participating in some of the festivities organized by the Las Vegas tech community at SXSW in addition to hosting the Tech Cocktail Startuplife Celebration on Saturday, March 9th as we announced earlier in the week. As a media partner for VegasTech, we’ll be on site at the SXSW…
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