Some people are born to build. Nelson Olavarrieta, founder at CelebratePlus – recently voted Dallas’ hottest showcasing startup – fits the bill. Already on his third tech startup since 2006, Olavarrieta’s latest venture combines the concepts behind Evite and Kickstarter to provide a platform for event hosts to directly fund their get-together. Tech Cocktail caught up…
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What is the best way to grow your business, get feedback, as well as meet potential investors, partners, and customers? Network, network, network! Meetup.com is one of many sites that provide an array of groups to meet others with your interests, personal or professional. But be forewarned, it’s easy to get sucked in! There is…
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With his first interests being tae kwon do and computer programming, Matt Dorey shifted his focus and worked on his parents’ business at the age of fifteen. In doing so, he realized he wanted to be successful. This realization changed his focus from tae kwon do and computer programming to being a success – which, in…
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According to the Cremation Association of North America, more than 40 percent of families choose cremation, and that percentage is anticipated to approach 60 percent in the next 12 years. Scattering ashes after cremation has become popular because it helps people ritualize their grief after the passing of a loved one. The problem is that scattering ashes is…
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As Tech Cocktail rolls into Dallas, Texas, for a mixer and startup showcase tonight, we’d like to stop and recognize how much the startup scene has grown in the past few years. Alexander Muse, a serial entrepreneur and cofounder of ShopSavvy, started rallying the community together in 2005 with his Texas Startup Blog, which grew…
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How often have you shared your dating site profile on Instagram? I’m assuming never. And this is one of the most promising signs for Let’s Date, a new dating app that launched publicly today out of Science Inc.: users are sharing their profiles on Instagram. Because they aren’t embarrassed. They want to show them off …
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Bob Gillespie treats startups as no laughing matter. He’s an expert, too, as both a former stand-up comedian and a current serial entrepreneur with two successful exits already under his belt. Bob and his cofounder, Matt Dabney, intend to disrupt the world of trade show and conference management with Swift Expo, a company offering a…
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Whether it’s celebrating getting your product to market, winning your first round of venture capital, or even getting your startup promoted through Tech Cocktail, being an entrepreneur means you’re going to create treasured memories. But as every entrepreneur knows, it’s often difficult to find time to capture those special moments in writing. That’s why Life’s…
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Las Vegas-based Ticket Cake, which helps event organizers manage their ticket sales, hit $1 million worth of tickets sold in January. It’s hard to compete with platforms like Eventbrite, but Ticket Cake is carving out a slice of the market for itself. Organizers can post events for free to help attract more attendees. And the…
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Teamly, which helps companies organize their internal social networking chatter into tasks and goals, today announcing $250,000 in funding led by the VegasTechFund. Teamly participated in the 500 Startups accelerator in 2012, and worked out of San Francisco for the rest of the year. But after a few visits to downtown Las Vegas, they decided…
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While we don’t all have to be programming pros, StartX entrepreneur in residence Elizabeth Stark believes learning to code at a young age can teach valuable skills like computational thinking, breaking down and solving complex problems, and building things that are tangible. During her talk at Tech Cocktail Week, Stark argued that the United States…
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Today is demo day in Mountain View, California, at 500 Startups, the #10 US tech accelerator. Thirty-three startups have spent the last three months crafting their product, business, and pitch, and today they emerge into the world, hoping to wow investors and build up buzz. “There are no words to describe our newest batch of…
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We’ve covered About.me a number of times over the last few years as they nailed their launch and then quickly were acquired by AOL. Today they announced they are spinning About.me out as it’s own independent company. As part of the deal AOL will hang on to an 8 percent stake in the company and according…
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Tonight is the launch party for 1776, a new 15,000-square-foot incubator in Washington, DC, that hopes to serve as a central hub for a growing startup scene. According to cofounder Donna Harris, the goal is to connect two worlds in DC that have always been separate: the tech startup scene and the industries surrounding government….
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Cathy Brooks is a storyteller. It’s what she is good at, what she has made her living with, and during Tech Cocktail Week, Brooks shared the story of her journey from the dog-eat-dog technology industry to the fulfilling world of dog parks and doggy daycare. When Brooks ran into Tony Hsieh at a conference last…
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