Guillaume Decugis couldn’t pinpoint why he wasn’t blogging. It’s not like he didn’t want to write – being a published author has been a dream of his since he was a teenager. He had valuable insight – having co-founded and sold a $120 million mobile music delivery startup, Musiwave. “I realized I was much better…
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One of the most important elements of a tech ecosystem is the level of collaboration that takes place in the community. That’s why Startup Weekend, a global event in which participants pitch their ideas, form teams, and build a viable product in only 54 hours, is such a valuable opportunity for entrepreneurs. More than 40…
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Mozilla and MuckerLab are joining forces to show that open source projects can be turned into profitable businesses. The companies are looking for social and mobile startups to join a new program that combines Los Angeles-based accelerator MuckerLab and Mozilla’s WebFWD program, an incubator for open-source-based products. Startups will spend 3 months at MuckerLab and…
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Matt Bellows knows funding. As Co-Founder and CEO of Boston-based Yesware, a sales productivity tool, he closed a $1M seed round in April 2011 and a $4M Series A round this past April. At his previous startup, he bootstrapped. While bootstrapping is often touted as the end-all, be-all of funding your startup, it isn’t always…
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On July 9, a group of high school girls in New York City will begin a very different type of summer school. They are the first class of Girls Who Code, a new 8-week program to educate girls in technology and (ultimately) help close the gender gap in tech jobs. The girls will learn web…
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Media company and female entrepreneurship champion Women 2.0 is calling for applications for its November 2012 PITCH NYC Conference. Startups with less than $1 million in funding and at least one female founder can apply, and the top 10 will pitch at the conference. The winner gets $25,000, plus a finalist interview for TechStars NYC’s…
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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. For @TechCocktail, one of the reasons we love Twitter so hard is the insightful business discourse- and naturally we want to share what we enjoy. Every Monday, we’ll be bringing you the top…
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A word to the wise for all of of you startup founders considering raising funds via Kickstarter: “A product is not a product,” Mike Vahey and Frank Taylor told me. “Kickstarter has a very interesting vetting process.” Vahey and Taylor are working together on a non-tech product called The Travel Halo, an alternative to the…
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When you think photo booth, it may conjure up images of the mall, or maybe an amusement park. Venturing into that type contraption results in a strip of four photos you usually don’t quite know what to do with afterwards. One for the Book is a photo booth application (and installation) that is about as…
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The day begins at Seattle’s new Surf Incubator as entrepreneurs trickle into work. They belong to around 30 startups, mostly without VC funding, who rent desks in the 8th floor, 15,400-square-foot office. As they hunker down in the morning, they might get some help on finance or marketing issues from Surf’s partners. After lunch in…
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For 3 years, Georgetown University has led an entrepreneurship initiative to help student entrepreneurs during the sizzling summer in our nation’s capital. Last year, 6 student companies shared a desk at Affinity Lab, a local coworking space/incubator. But now, Georgetown has launched an official StartupHoyas Incubator to kickstart 15 fledgling companies. “Traditionally on this campus, you…
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Sometimes, Tiffany Shlain loves technology: after all, she’s the founder of the Webby Awards and cofounder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, whose goal is to help drive the progress of the Internet. But sometimes, she’s not so fond of it: she and her family take “technology shabbats” once a week to…
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One could argue that the most valuable byproduct of the startup experience is the knowledge gained by those starting up. That was the impetus behind the creation of Startup Grind, a monthly meetup that started in San Francisco, spread to New York City, and is now in a dozen cities. It started, simply enough, with…
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In Malawi, Africa, for every 100,000 live babies born, 1,200 women will die. This is a pretty sad statistic, and a group of four Arizona State University engineering students, led by the team of Gabrielle Palmermo, James Tyler, John Walters and Susanna Young, set out to do something about it. They formed G3Box (which stands for Generating Global Good)…
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Twitter is a conversation. Twitter is an RSS feed. Twitter is a source of inspiration. Twitter is the pulse. Twitter is different things to different people. For @TechCocktail, one of the reasons we love Twitter so hard is the insightful business discourse. As part of a new weekly series, Tech Cocktail will be featuring the…
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“How do I improve my open rates?” It’s the question that every marketer has asked at some point. You’ve spent hours crafting the perfect e-mail, testing every link, playing with different subject lines and delivery times. Yet no matter what you do, a significant portion will never even open the e-mail that you’ve put…
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