Last Thursday Steve Case appeared on the Colbert Report to discuss all things “sharing economy“-related. Case, the Chairman and CEO of Revolution, the DC-based investment firm, handled each of Colbert’s quips and subsequently took advantage of conveying the principles behind this new economic shift. In explaining that most vehicles and vacation homes only get used…
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Which presidential candidate best represents your political ideology? Seems like a fairly straightforward question, right? Before getting too confident in your response, I suggest taking a quick stop over at Keya Dannenbaum’s latest venture, ElectNext. What has been dubbed the “OkCupid of Politics,” the concept behind ElectNext is pretty simple. First, select the topics that matter…
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Paul Srivorakul is a cofounder of Ensogo, the Southeast Asian daily deal site acquired by LivingSocial in June 2011 for an undisclosed amount. Below, he shares some insights on the challenges he faced and where the daily deal industry is headed. Tech Cocktail: Can you talk about a tough decision you had to make, or…
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Founded in 2009, Southeast Asian daily deal site Ensogo was approached by LivingSocial and acquired in June 2011 for an undisclosed amount. At the time, cofounder Paul Srivorakul reports, they had about an 85% market share in Thailand, 50-60%t in the Philippines, and 45-50% in Indonesia. Now, with a team of over 450, Ensogo is…
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As 2012 begins, startups are setting goals like the rest of us. Below are the resolutions – personal and professional, practical and ambitious – of a few Asian entrepreneurs. “My New Year’s resolution is to live life fearlessly and live in the present. The secret to being a successful entrepreneur is be realistic but also…
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“Don’t cheat the world of the things only you can figure out and only you can do”, says Laura Fitton, the founder and CEO of OneForty, which sold to Boston-based HubSpot last summer. Fitton, who is now the Inbound Marketing Evangelist for HubSpot, talked to Tech Cocktail’s Frank Gruber about the greater context of everything…
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When it gets down to it, it’s really about the impact startups can have on our quality of life and the passion entrepreneurs bring to the table for their audience. That’s what entrepreneur Alexis Juneja shared with us when we interviewed her as part of Tech Cocktail’s Delivering Happiness series. In terms of inspiration, Juneja, co-founder…
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Rohit Bhargava loves the “agony filter” on Hipmunk. Why? Not only because it filters out the multiple stops and 12 hour layovers, but because of the philosophy behind it; leveraging technology to “filter out the idiotic”. And let’s face it – the world needs to filter out more idiotic. Bhargava is the author of Personality…
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After figuring out that you do not need to be a “techie” to start a company, firefighter and paramedic turned journalist Matt Mireles took to tackling the problem that video has on the web – primarily that it’s not indexed the same by Google or other search engines due to its rich non-text format. So…
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Mike O’Brien is one of those serial entrepreneurs that come up with new ideas – and execute them – constantly. He is currently CEO of San Diego-based Climber.com, a proactive career management tool that gives job seekers access to hundreds of thousands of recruiters. He was a co-founder and served as CEO of financialaid.com, which…
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Poornima Vijayshankar is a typical startup founder – she loves what she does so much that she jumps out of bed every morning – early. Her company, Bizeebee, helps small businesses with large communities manage all the behind-the-scenes logistics. Their focus right now is on yoga studios and helping them manage customers, track and retain…
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What happens when you grow up as the son of an engineer in Silicon Valley? You get to see the first Mac prototype in 1967 – which didn’t ship for another 17 years. Prolific author and man-about-tech-town Robert Scoble, who was with Microsoft and now leads the Startup charge at Rackspace, has always been into…
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Mike Jones, serial entrepreneur, investor and most recently, founder of the new LA technology studio, Science, joined us at the DCWEEK Opening Keynotes last week. Tech Cocktail’s own Jen Consalvo interviewed Jones, discussing his early entrepreneurial days, his success with Userplane which he sold to AOL, and his challenges with MySpace which was eventually sold to…
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Nicole Glaros, Director at TechStars in Boulder, stopped by our Tech Cocktail Delivering Happiness at SXSW tour last March to talk about entrepreneurship. If you are not familiar with TechStars and are in the very beginning stages of your startup, check them out. They are a mentorship-driven seed accelerator with locations in Boston, Boulder, NYC,…
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During our SXSW Delivering Happiness tour, we had a chance to talk to Mark Hendrickson, CEO and co-founder of Plancast, an event discovery and sharing platform. He shared his thoughts about all the experimentation with social media currently taking place, how technology can bring you value you didn’t expect, and how the Internet should be…
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How can small businesses manage their money better? That’s the question Jessica Mah asked herself. Inspired by business owners everywhere and the approach that Mint had taken a few years ago, Jessica Mah looked at the unique challenges encountered by small businesses and started inDinero in July 2010 to help every business owner better manage…
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