As a teen, if I got in trouble, the car was taken away for the weekend and all forms of my social life ended. There wasn’t an opportunity to just shrug my shoulders and go hang in my bedroom talking to my friends online…
For startups, to say there is ever a shortage of challenges would be the same as waiting for a pig to fly through the sky. On that list, nested just under how the hell do I get funding, is how do you get face…
Oska Wellness, a health-tech, wearable pain relief device startup based out of Carlsbad, CA, is the 2017 Startup of the Year winner. The announcement, made at the Innovate Celebrate conference held by TechCo in partnership with CTA, came following a three-day event attended by …
Pitching is scary. Sitting down with a relative stranger to convince them that your company is the next big thing is enough to make an entrepreneur sweat bullets. After all, the right pitch can do a lot for the future of a new startup….
In one of the Innovate Celebrate 2017 conference’s most anticipated talks, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has today announced the 24th Annual Holiday Tech Trends for the upcoming season. As always, the consumer fervor behind the gift-giving frenzy stretching …
For five years, TechCo has showcased and supported burgeoning companies through the Startup of the Year competition. In addition to helping founders gain access to top tech investors, mentors, and influencers, the competition breeds an entrepreneurial energy that is palpable at …
Picture a robot from the future. Maybe you’re thinking of Star Trek’s Data, Futurama’s Bender, or the Jetsons’ robot maid Rosie. One thing they all have in common: They have personalities, and they’re treated as functional members of whatever family …
Picking strawberries is a labor intensive job as each berry needs to be pulled off individually. And even though the strawberry harvesting industry is the highest paid of all the berry picking industries, many berries rot on the vine every year because there is…
If your company could be classified as a type of boat, what would it be? An inflatable kayak (the idea on the back of a napkin), a row boat (startup), or perhaps a speedboat (growth stage)? Today at Innovate Celebrate, that’s exactly what Holly…
Picture the last 100 years of automobile innovation. From the rattletrap Model T to the latest model, we’ve come a long way and made plenty of improvements. But the process hasn’t changed much: Factories still take years to fine-tune their next model before turning…
Businesses are created and destroyed on a weekly, if not daily basis. Sure, there may be some bailouts to keep a few historical machines running, but for the rest it is almost entirely up to the leaders and team members of an organization to…
The Startup of the Year competition is an integral and exciting part of Innovate Celebrate. The competitive spirit of the startups, combined with the entrepreneurial energy of the conference, makes for an atmosphere that is rivaled only by the Super Bowl. And after all…
Innovate Celebrate 2017 is right around the corner and we’re excited. Are you? Of course you are! Between the parties, the mentors, the speakers, the parties again, the excursions, the investors, and the parties one more time, our fifth annual conference is going to…
If you’ve ever been to Innovate Celebrate in the past, you know that it’s an entrepreneur’s dream. With mentor sessions, startup competitions, and enough cocktails to make a llama woozy, our annual conference is about supporting and celebrating startup founders …
