Buying and maintaining a car is something many of us have been accustomed to since our sweet sixteenth birthday. But there has been a trend to go car-less and with this trend, new services like Zipcar, Uber, Lift, Sidecar and more have launched to provide options when you have no wheels. Today, the Downtown Project,…
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Cathy Brooks has made a bet on Las Vegas. At the end of 2012, she left a 20-year career in the tech industry to open the Downtown Dog House dog day care and training school. Working with the Downtown Project, she and her 70-pound Labradoodle Truman will provide much-needed canine services to the growing resident…
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While telemedicine – consulting with doctors over the phone – is gaining some popularity lately, another innovation is taking us back to the roots of medical care. Atlanta startup Medicast wants to bring doctors back into your home. Instead of sending a relative to fetch the doctor, as they did in centuries past, you can…
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Guide founder and CEO Freddie Laker calls himself a “futurist,” and it’s evident after a few minutes of talking to him. When I last interviewed Laker about Guide, he could have focused on the platform’s current abilities: turning written news articles into video broadcasts. Instead, he spent a good deal of time musing about his…
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As senior director of business development at Waze, Andy Ellwood is helping over 40 million drivers avoid traffic. Users share information in real-time on jams and accidents, and that information now powers dozens of local TV station traffic reports. When he’s not hustling at Waze, Ellwood is writing a blog about hustle. He’s learned a…
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Over the last few years, New Orleans has been in a constant state of rebuilding. Along with the volunteers and contractors who have worked to rebuild the historic city, came a crop of talented, smart entrepreneurs looking to build companies, too. In the video below, Launch Pad cofounder Chris Schultz talks about how New Orleans’…
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Today we are excited to announce that Gabe Shepherd will be joining the Tech Cocktail team to help us with business development and evangelism. Gabe brings years of experience to Tech Cocktail as well as a great knowledge of the Las Vegas business and technology landscape. As you may recall, Tech Cocktail opened shop in…
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The first time we interviewed Zach Ware, who works with the $350 million revitalization project in Las Vegas known as the Downtown Project, he said the word “community” so many times that we added a community counter to the video. (After 3.5 minutes, the total was 13 times.) But “community” isn’t just a buzzword for…
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At his opening remarks at SXSW Interactive last week, MakerBot cofounder and CEO Bre Pettis announced the 3D printing company’s latest product: the Digitizer, a desktop 3D scanner. The Digitizer is still in the prototyping phase, but it will ultimately be able to scan any object and turn it into a model that can be…
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Nataly Kogan’s happiness realization took place in Vienna at the age of 13. She and her family were in “horrid refugee housing,” but her father insisted that they enjoy little things like a day at the zoo. That’s the anecdotal inspiration for Happier, an app that lets you record and share little happy moments. The…
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Trina Chiasson has an eclectic background. She worked at Media Make Change, using social media for social change. She did online campaigns for a youth leadership organization and helped organize hackfests. And she worked on a Knight Foundation-Mozilla project in Germany. Throughout it all, Chiasson’s goal is to create some social value and improve the…
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Among her many talents, Kelly Hoey is an expert at making connections. Her colleagues call her a “top networker” and a “serial connector” who knows how to bring the right people together. That’s part of her job as cofounder and managing director of Women Innovate Mobile, a startup accelerator for women-founded mobile companies. They offer…
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In 2003, Shutterstock was just a place for founder Jon Oringer to sell his photography. From a few thousand of his own images, the site has grown to over 24 million stock photos that businesses and publishers can license. And that’s all without venture funding. During that time, Shutterstock also added a footage section, which…
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In 2011, Zaarly probably set a record by raising $1 million in funding just three weeks after they started. What began as an idea at Startup Weekend LA soon had the backing of investors like Paul Bucheit, Naval Ravikant, and Ashton Kutcher. Zaarly went on to raise $14 million more later that year for a…
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Always shaking things up, Cindy Gallop and her MakeLoveNotPorn team partnered with BangWithFriends at SXSW this year to encourage you to “bang” with friends…and record it. MakeLoveNotPorn is an amateur porn site that aims to show real sex, dispelling the myths and unrealistic expectations spread by professional porn. SXSW attendees who are game can grab…
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At two and a half years old, .CO is experiencing a growth spurt. Over 1.4 million companies sport the .co domain, and .CO came to SXSW this year with one hundred of them. The company, which handles .co domains, celebrated its second birthday in July. Last November, they launched i.go.co with perks and benefits for…
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