Before Malaysian entrepreneur James Khoo traveled to Silicon Valley this summer, he believed his startup secQ.me had to succeed before he could be truly happy. So he worked and struggled and worked and struggled, waiting for the day when he would have happiness and success. But one of the things he learned in Silicon Valley…
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Are you a startup with a killer plan to reinvent education, health, energy, politics, or government? Then the Reboot America Summit on November 8 and 9 in Washington, DC, will provide you with an incredible opportunity to connect with potential partners, investors, and national leaders. Reboot America is a national movement focusing America’s leading corporations…
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Today is the kickoff for the Startup Asia Bandung hackathon, a two-day event that’s bringing together over 600 developers in Indonesia to show off their programming chops. Bandung, Indonesia, is a pocket of startup activity amidst a developing country of over 240 million. It’s home to the Bandung Institute of Technology, a prestigious university with…
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Open until October 15, Finding Fearless is a competition where fearless innovators driving social change can win grants of $10,000. Finding Fearless is part of the Be Fearless campaign by the Case Foundation, which invests in social innovators to help support communities and causes. It aims to highlight community-minded leaders who are boldly taking risks…
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Emily Brew will be a featured speaker at DCWEEK, a week-long festival co-produced by Tech Cocktail and iStrategyLabs. Get your tickets here. Emily Brew is the former creative brand director at the Nike Foundation, which told the story of adolescent girls and helped empower them to end the cycles of poverty that afflict them. Their…
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Aside from living and breathing it 24×7 here at Tech Cocktail, we’ve seen movies like The Social Network bring the entrepreneurial story to the big screen, celebrities jumping into tech investments and the Facebook IPO and Instagram acquisition that catch mainstream attention, bringing tech entrepreneurship to the forefront. If these stories don’t get your entrepreneurial juices flowing then you may want to check your pulse. So…
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1. Amazon Web Services Global Start-Up Challenge For: Startups using Amazon Web Services, with less than $10 million in funding. Prizes: Up to $100,000 in cash and Amazon Web Services credits, introductions to VCs, and technical mentorship. Details: Final pitches will be held in January in San Francisco. Four grand prize winners get to “wield the…
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This post is part of Tech Cocktail’s overview of the Downtown Project, a $350 million fund that aims to revitalize downtown Las Vegas by funding new buildings, education, small businesses, and tech startups. It’s Friday morning in downtown Las Vegas. The neon lights are off and the temperature hasn’t yet climbed above 100 degrees. On…
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For the last two and a half weeks, Startup Maryland, a regional leadership team affiliated with the Startup America Partnership, has been on a bus touring the state showcasing entrepeneurship in an effort called Pitch Across Maryland. The tour stretched across the state with stops and activities along the way. For example, the first stop on…
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This post is part of Tech Cocktail’s overview of the Downtown Project, a $350 million fund that aims to revitalize downtown Las Vegas by funding new buildings, education, small businesses, and tech startups. We’re at the monthly Downtown Project update in September, a lively affair at the Plaza casino. The crowd has sampled from a sushi platter…
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Over a hundred people came to the DC Google office last night to hear more about Google’s current efforts to support and foster entrepreneurial communities around the world and in local regions. The event highlighted the new Google for Entrepreneurs resource, which includes acceleration and training programs and events worldwide - some by Google and some by its partners….
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This post is part of Tech Cocktail’s overview of the Downtown Project, a $350 million fund that aims to revitalize downtown Las Vegas by funding new buildings, education, small businesses, and tech startups. A few miles northeast of the Strip, the Downtown Project is slowly and quietly creating a lively and friendly local community and…
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Led by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, the Downtown Project is a $350 million fund that aims to revitalize downtown Las Vegas by funding new buildings, education, small businesses, and tech startups. The focus is on community: creating a place where passionate people would be happy to live. The Downtown Project grew out of Zappos’s search…
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After poking around the iStrategyLabs office and speaking with some of the people who were there when DCWEEK was just a tossed-out, pipedream of an idea, I learned about how this amazing event came to be. The original idea for DCWEEK was spawned about five years ago by Peter Corbett, Nick O’Neil, and Frank Gruber….
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The average entrepreneur will spend as much as 30 percent of their work time pitching for new business. The above-average entrepreneur will spend 40 percent because they understand that work is a hustle. The exceptional entrepreneur will spend 20 percent of their work time promoting because their pitches get results. Here are 6 reasons your…
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Yesterday, ten startups pitched to the judges at Crowdfunder’s CROWDSTART LV, competing for a chance to pitch to the VegasTechFund and receive up to $500,000 in funding. This is the second Crowdfunder event of its kind, the first took place in Los Angeles in July. A standing room only crowd gathered at the Plaza Hotel Casino downtown Las Vegas…
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