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Combinatorial Innovation
There are so many new technologies today: tablets, geolocation, video chat, great app frameworks. It is easy to cherry-pick off “combinatorial” innovations that seem compelling, and can maybe even be monetized readily.
But all those innovations are inevitable. If our technologies afford a certain possibility, they [...]
DC Based YouEye Represents At Soft Launch On The Pacific Coast
YouEye, a startup that presented at a recent SocialMatchbox garage series event, represented the Washington area startup community well at today’s West Coach launch event. Check out the event video here. For such a big time event I was a bit surprised at the softball nature of the questions asked by the panel. The Microsoft [...]
Washington Area Startup Founders Panel and Schmoozing
If you missed last night’s founder’s panel, you really missed out. The event turned out to be some of the most intimate CEO and founder networking in the Washington area since the first bar camp held in Washington, DC back in 2007. We have held and attended a lot of events, but never has the [...]
Event: January 27th Founder Panel & Startup Community Networking
The Social Matchbox event series is Celebrating its Four-Year Anniversary!
We are kicking off the 2011 Social Matchbox event series with a panel of startup founders sharing insights about their successful exits, open bar, and light food fare in Georgetown at 3000 K Street in a venue with a view of the Washington, DC skyline [...]
13 Startups Spoke At The First Social Matchbox Garage Series Event
Yesterday we kicked of the brand new Social Matchbox Startup Garage Series at TeqCorner in Tyson’s Corner, the birthplace of the popular Social Matchbox Startup Launch Series event which has helped launch many of the Washington area’s hugely successful startup companies including OPower (Positive Energy then), Living Social (Hungry Machine then), *ClearSpring, Webs.com (Freewebs then), [...]
Shashi Bellamkonda’s GrowSmart Biz Conference Returns To Washington, DC Today
This morning we checked in on Shashi Bellamkonda’s GrowSmartBiz conference happening at the Renaissance Hotel in the Gallery Place neighborhood of Washinton, DC. This year Shashi is partnering with the Washington Business Journal to host the conference in its second run. The speaker’s list includes a ton of people from the small business consulting community, [...]
Social Matchbox Open Mic & Mixer for Startups, Web & Software People THURSDAY
We heard from a lot of you who are cooking up new startups, looking for your next startup experience, or looking for the next big startup to invest in. Before the big startup launch series, we held a series of garage style events in TeqCorner’s Startup Garage Room there on the 3rd [...]
