Dr. Jessica Grossman is thinking about joining the first VC fund focused on women’s health startups, she announced at Tech Cocktail Week Sessions in downtown Vegas in June. The fund, called EXXclaim Capital, will invest in companies focused on areas like pediatrics, health and wellness, and digital health. According to MedCity News , the fund was started by Dr. Anula Jayasuriya and Karen Drexler and has already invested in Wildflower Health and Medable . “Women’s health has been extremely overlo...
Jul 02, 2014
This year, after stops in Chicago and NYC, GE will be bringing a fabrication lab to Lagos, Nigeria. GE Garages are pop-up maker spaces that welcome members of the local community to come and use their tools, such as 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC mills, injection molders, and Arduino kits. The spaces also host speakers and run workshops. In Lagos, GE will be offering free workshops for entrepreneurs on new technologies, programming, and business planning. They’ll also offer student training in ...
May 22, 2014
Phil Simon , bluntly speaking, knows his stuff when it comes to technology and emerging trends. He has worked in IT, consulted, and written a multitude of books, but does that mean we should trust his expertise? According to Simon, we should listen to his opinions and predictions with a healthy sense of skepticism. Putting blind faith into an expert prediction because it belongs to an expert is about as smart as smoking at a gas station. The future is not yet written, and expert predictions are ...
Jul 11, 2013
Throughout his childhood, Rohit Bhargava thought he would end up as a doctor or engineer. However, a short stint at an engineering camp one summer showed him that he had more talent bringing individuals together than building turbines: he won the good citizen award at camp that summer. That experience started Bhargava down a path that would ultimately lead him to write the bestselling books Personality Not Included and Likenomics . Both of which are globally marketed and nicely complement his fe...
Jun 25, 2013
Dina Kaplan, founder of Blip, continued piling more onto her plate. In addition to running six departments within her startup- HR, finance, PR, marketing, biz dev, and investor relations- Kaplan took it upon herself to build a networking community for the New York startup scene with The Founders Club. Blip was flourishing, as was the Founders Club, but underneath all of her entrepreneurial successes the pressure mounted and the fear got worse. Kaplan’s fear of fainting eventually caused her to c...
Jun 13, 2013
Greg Cangialosi, cofounder of Betamore and managing member of the Baltimore Angels , knows a lot about startups. His experience includes both entrepreneurship and investing. Greg started a company in 2001, ran it for 10 years, and made a successful sale of the company. After a brief hiatus, he decided it was time to jump back into the startup scene. But, Greg discovered that this scene was lacking, so he decided to work on filling the holes in Baltimore’s startup ecosystem. In the video below, G...
Mar 04, 2013
Aziz Gilani is passionate about laziness. He says he likes doing what’s easy. “It’s amazing what happens when you surrender yourself to the easy things to do in life,” he says. Aziz, a director at DFJ Mercury , believes that companies should also do what is easy. Throughout his career in venture capital, he has noticed – time and time again – that companies tend to work when they have unfair advantages to succeed. An unfair advantage might mean that the company was founded by someone who has alr...
Feb 10, 2013
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 his mind, meant making money. He experienced the whole process of being passionate about something to raising funding to building a company to losing sight of his passion. He realize...
Feb 08, 2013
Since the Washington, D.C. region is so spread out with Maryland, Virginia and The District making up the unique area, finding a central hub for tech startups has been something the region has struggled with. Last year The Fort , a startup accelerator and work space, opened up shop near the White House to offer capital investment and mentoring, which was a great stride in the right direction. Acceleprise , an accelerator for enterprise startups, also opened its doors in the district. A few other...
Jan 27, 2013
Sex. Gambling. Luck. These are 3 things you wouldn’t associate with growing your startup and building your network. But Scott Case, the founding CTO of Priceline and currently the CEO of Startup America, might convince you otherwise. Watch the full session by Scott Case . The talk was recorded in front of a live audience at the Tech Cocktail Sessions speaker series event on May 24, 2012, in Washington, DC. We are currently offering these Sessions monthly, so check our event schedule for the next...
Jul 10, 2012
Travis Kalanick is CEO and Founder of Uber , a hot startup that offers anyone the ability to have a personal black car service at their fingertips via their mobile phone. He is a successful entrepreneur in the areas of consumer Internet, p2p, and enterprise content delivery. His most recent company, Red Swoosh, was sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007. He has the dubious distinction of being sued for $250 billion while running his first company, Scour. The Jampad is a place for entrepreneurs and ...
Jun 16, 2011
