Mallory Kievman, an eighth grader in Connecticut, is turning her science fair project into a business. Working with her father, Kievman has spent her free time in the kitchen concocting Hiccupops, lollipops with apple cider vinegar that aim to cure hiccups. As the New York Times reports, she won prizes for innovation and patentability (the…
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Anyone who has waited on a girlfriend to get ready for anything that involves being seen in public knows firsthand that no amount of clothes will ever solve the riddle that is leaving the house quickly. There is no closet big enough. That is, unless, there were an infinite closet. This is the female-utopia that Nikki Durkin, founder…
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We are excited to announce Tech Cocktail Conversations, a new video podcast by Tech Cocktail bringing you candid insights from startup founders, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders from around the world. Now you can watch your favorite Tech Cocktail interviews while on the go. Conversations offers a no BS, three-to-five minute interview with some of the world’s…
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When he isn’t winning the Chinese National Kickboxing Championship, obtaining the Guinness World Record in tango, guest lecturing at Princeton, learning to speak a new language (currently fluent in five), or writing a pair of #1 New York Times bestselling books (The 4 Hour Workweek and The 4 Hour Body), Tim Ferriss finds time to lend…
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It all started at a conference in 2009. The presenter was giving a talk on web form design and user behavior. His company recently started using eye tracking technology to study on-site behavior. The information they were able to gather through this new method was immensely helpful, but the price tag was, well, just immense…
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Today, app developers need marketing more than ever, but they have less money to spend on it. That’s because many of the App Store’s over half a billion apps are free. Serial entrepreneur Terry Hsiao saw this problem and created the App Growth Engine – tools to acquire more users for iOS games by capturing…
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21-year-old entrepreneur Brian Wong believes in disrupting markets, not just plugging up holes with little apps. (See Brian Wong discuss this at SXSW 2012.) He himself is aiming to disrupt mobile advertising with Kiip, a rewards network that app developers can add to their apps. On Wednesday, we published Brian Wong’s take on Mark Zuckerberg…
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Just turned 21, entrepreneur Brian Wong is already racking up achievements: graduated college at 18, worked at Digg, founded Kiip, got funding. But, on Skype at least, Wong comes off as humble: he brushed aside a comparison to Mark Zuckerberg, wants his business to take the spotlight, and explained how luck and teamwork fueled his…
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Way back at the beginning of the month, Zamp was a showcased startup at our SXSW #StartupLife Celebration. Founder Sam Zebarjadi was gracious enough to sit down for an interview, which became part of our SXSW video series (you can watch the interview here). He talked about his really cool social travel service that connects…
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Tech Cocktail’s Co-Founder and CEO Frank Gruber joined Andrew Warner on Mixergy to share the story of Tech Cocktail and how he and the team have grown it from a simple mixer event to 20 city event series and online content resource for tech startup news and entrepreneurial resources. The video interview, which is over 80 minutes…
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The healthcare system in the U.S. has been a mess for a while – and it’s not getting better. Did you know that , despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on public service announcement, 1 out of 5 Americans still don’t finish their antibiotics courses? Aza Raskin, Founder and CEO of Massive Health, believes a…
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If you’re a startup founder, I bet you can relate to Ketan Anjaria’s statement that “having a startup is like having a cranky, expensive child.” Though Anjaria, Founder and CEO of the digital business card app CardFlick, won major brownie points by declaring that you should not read TechCrunch during his interview at our SXSW…
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The model of salaried employees working in offices is slowly shifting, says Tony Bacigalupo. And he’s accelerating that shift as mayor of New Work City, a coworking space in (you guessed it) New York City. When he’s not coworking, Bacigalupo is out and about in the NYC tech scene helping organize meetups, Barcamps, TEDx, and Girl…
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Neil Mylet is a rather atypical startup founder. He was raised on a farm and continues to spend 8 hours a day farming in central Indiana. Naturally, his startup, LoadOut, is agriculture-focused: their goal is to improve mobile adoption in farming. During our SXSW #StartupLife Celebration on March 10, Mylet stopped by to talk about…
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Cindy Gallop is older, female, and working on a startup related to sex – not the greatest combination for finding venture capital, she says. But with her sharp independence and honest vivacity, she sure makes for an inspiring entrepreneur. Gallop launched Make Love Not Porn (NSFW) to a few giggles and much chatter at TED in…
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If you like to travel, you might want to know about Zamp, a social travel service that connects travelers while they are traveling – not before or after. According to co-founder Sam Zebarjadi, a billion hours are spent every year sitting around and waiting for flights, a number I do not doubt in the least. …
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