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Top 10 Stories of the Week: Facebook’s FbStart, an 11-Year-Old App Developer
Did you miss out on one (or five) of Tech Cocktail's posts from this week? It's okay. We want to let you know that we
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500 Startups Announces The 29 Batch 9 Accelerator Participants
500 Startups yesterday announced the companies that will be participating in Batch 9 of their accelerator program. The
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500 Startups Partner George Kellerman Joins Paul Singh at Disruption
The tech world saw a big shakeup this afternoon as Paul Singh, the founder of Disruption Corporation, announced that George
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DC’s 2014 Spring Startup Weekend: Recap and Winners
Looking for the next Airbnb? You just might find it at Startup Weekend DC. This past weekend at WeWork DC - Wonder Bread
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10 Startups That Received $100k from Steve Case at the Google for Entrepreneurs Demo Day
At yesterday's inaugural Google for Entrepreneurs Demo Day, AOL cofounder and Revolution Chairman and CEO Steve
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3 DC Startups Team Up to Create a Platform for Virtual Weddings
Do you love technology and having a digital presence, but don't want to fork over $3,000 for a social media wedding
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Post-Accelerator and Growth Funding in Berlin
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague and I went on a trip to Vienna, Austria to deliver a keynote to a state-funded innovation
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Katiri Zuluaga and Springboard Enterprises Are Supporting Female-Led Startups
The video below is part of an interview series we did at SXSW 2014. Our SXSW Startup Celebration was sponsored
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Nitrous.IO Raises $6.65M Series A to Build Better Dev Environments
Nitrous.IO, a platform that provides pre-configured development environments in the cloud, today announced that they have
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Chicago’s 1871 to Launch FEMtech Startup Incubator to Support Female Entrepreneurs
On Tuesday, Chicago's 1871 announced that it plans to launch 1871 FEMtech, an incubator specifically created to support
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Surf, Sun, and Startups – San Diego is Becoming a Major Player: Part 1
San Diego is home to a lot of great things: year-round sunshine, surfing, and some of the best Mexican food you’ll ever
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Beijing Startups Take On the Challenge Cup and Win
Starting a new company is hard enough, but when you’re innovating in the most challenging and highly-regulated industries,
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Lingua.ly, Winflex, MediSafe Project, and Pink Park Win the Tel Aviv Challenge Cup
With only a handful of regional events left, The Challenge Cup has almost completed its worldwide quest to find the best
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primeloop Joins 500 Startups Batch 8 Accelerator
500 Startups today announced the 28 startups that will make up Batch 8 and head into the accelerator program in their new
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Aceable, Water Lens, Spot On Sciences and Reaction Win the Austin Challenge Cup
In its first challenge of the New Year, The Challenge Cup rolled through Austin on Friday night. Twenty-eight startups
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LivingSocial Now Has 4,000 Employees, $400 Million in Annual Revenue, and Hundreds of Millions in the Bank
LivingSocial's outgoing CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy recently did an interview with Fortune Magazine's senior
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7 Things You Should Know About The DC Design Community
DC breeds a culture of creativity. With design agencies, startups, artists and freelancers aplenty, it can be hard to
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Berlin is the Place to be for Startups, According to Challenge Cup Participants
“It’s vibrant, super-interesting, diverse, fun, sometimes over-rated, but in general, really great!” That’s how
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LivingSocial’s Tim O’Shaughnessy: We’re still a giant startup. We don’t have everything figured out yet.
Not only is Tim O’Shaughnessy anti-breakfast, he’s against the traditional take on whether a startup is, or will be,
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AlphaLab Demo Day: 9 Startups Pitch in Pittsburgh
Today, nine startups took the stage in Pittsburgh to pitch their ideas to investors at AlphaLab's demo day.
AlphaLab is a
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Tim O’Shaughnessy on the Difficulties of Startup Growth and What’s Ahead for LivingSocial
Despite the success of LivingSocial and its tremendous growth since the company was first launched in 2009, Tim
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