“My life story is going to be a made-for-TV movie,” jokes Candace Klein. The plot would go something like this: With a little luck and a lot of persistence, a girl with modest roots overcomes cancer and goes on to change the world by helping women like herself. Klein, one of five children, lived in…
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Tech Cocktail is excited to be introducing Tech Cocktail Sessions to San Francisco on August 29th (tomorrow). We’ve lined up a pair of exceptional entrepreneurs, Matt Galligan and Howard Leonhardt, who will be sharing their insights on the topic of “Turning Ideas into Action” <register here>. Tomorrow, you’ll get the chance to learn the secrets behind their successes. But what about…
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Finding the right startup team can be the difference between a tense office culture, constant interruptions, and passive-aggressive emails and days full of high-fives, heads-down work, and happy hours. At GROW Conference, Vancouver’s premier startup event with over 800 attendees, a few speakers reminded us how a solid team can be the foundation for everything…
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Startups tend to create a Twitter account before they do anything else. However, your success on Twitter depends upon your goal. For most people, it’s about driving traffic to a certain webpage, and then converting that traffic into sales. The second majority wants to use Twitter to maintain a brand reputation, and either send out news,…
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When Selina Limman traveled to the US for college, many things were different from her hometown of Jakarta, Indonesia. She was studying food science and technology in Los Angeles. On her free evenings, she would log onto sites like Yelp and Citysearch to find restaurants, stores, and events. Everyone bubbled about how much there was…
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Tech Cocktail is excited to be introducing Tech Cocktail Sessions to San Francisco on August 29th (next Thursday). We’ve lined up pair of exceptional entrepreneurs, Matt Galligan and Howard Leonhardt, who will be sharing their insights on the topic of “Turning Ideas into Action” <register here>. Next week, you’ll get the chance to learn the secrets behind their…
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As an entrepreneur pitching to angel investors, you have a lot on your mind. You have to nail your pitch and anticipate their questions, all while staying cool and charismatic. Preparing your pitch is of paramount importance, and a crucial component of this is knowing exactly who you’re pitching to. We’re here to help. Tech Cocktail’s…
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Lately, you can’t scroll through Twitter or browse a tech blog without stumbling on another new startup accelerator or incubator program. And Tech Cocktail is no exception: we cover and promote these programs because they benefit entrepreneurs, who get to spend a few months laser-focused on a single idea and then launch it to the…
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“Ok, so what are we doing today?” Let’s not mince words, this is one of the most terrifying questions that can be asked, and unfortunately I hear it once every 6 weeks (give or take). I refer to, of course, the question offered by my hair stylist inquiring as to how I’d like my ‘do…
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Startup Weekend, the 54-hour race to build a working product and pitch to judges on Sunday night, came to Vancouver this weekend. The event jumpstarted 17 ideas, from planning routes to selling tickets to epic Pokemon-style networking battles. And contrary to popular belief, few people pulled all-nighters – although “maybe that’s just the Vancouver mentality,”…
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Twitter is a conversation. Twitter is an RSS feed. Twitter is inspiration. Twitter is the pulse. Twitter is different things to different people. One of the reasons @TechCocktail loves Twitter so hard is for insightful business discourse – and naturally we want to share what we enjoy. Every Monday, we’ll be bringing you the top seven startup-related…
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User growth requires a solid analytical approach and a creative mindset to mold and build captivating and stimulating messaging. The following four steps are core to growing a user base for companies with an online presence: 1. Optimize the landing page. Since the landing page is the entry point for all new users, it is…
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According to the latest Comcast data, 180 million US Internet users watched 33 billion online videos in the month of June 2012. With this number likely to rise in the future, it’s important for entrepreneurs and small businesses to embrace video as a tool through which they can not only reach their audience easily, but…
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Shilo Shiv Suleman’s drawings, depicting the colorful people, scenes, and rituals of India, used to stay confined to the pages of her journal. But after starting a blog, she saw her art makes its way through the web, in front of a TED audience, and into an iPad app called Khoya. Suleman’s story is one…
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Next Tuesday, we’re excited to be bringing Tech Cocktail Sessions back to Boston. We’ve lined up pair of exceptional Boston-area entrepreneurs, Sheila Marcelo and Micah Adler, who will be talking on the topic of “Building Your Company Culture” <register here>. On August 21st, you’ll get the chance to learn the secrets behind their companies’ successes. But what about the individual sitting on…
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Videos are important to your marketing strategy, but the ability to easily share them is much more important. Video sharing took a giant leap forward with the launch of YouTube in 2005. With over 2 billion views daily, which encompass 83% of the US Internet audience according to comScore, YouTube has solidified video as the…
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