“I think I’ve been here every week since it opened,” DC Mayor Vincent Gray told a standing room only crowd at the Speek launch and thank you party held at 1776DC on Friday evening. Gray and Newark Mayor Cory Booker are two politicians very friendly to startups. Gray and his constituents working on DC’s economic
Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray has announced some tax changes that are designed to keep the districts budding tech scene building to scale. The changes he outlined recently will be formally announced to the city council on April 17th. The first tax change is that District residents who invest in technology companies or take on
Newark Mayor and social media guru Cory Booker taps St. Louis startup Givver for campaign donations.
Washington DC’s tech and startup hot spot, 1776 has some major global news this 4th of July holiday week.
Washington DC entrepreneur, Allison Sheren is looking to spark friendships, conversations and interactions between neighbors with her startup neighborsations
Where do you go in your city/region (or online) to connect with other entrepreneurs and learn from them? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) (http://theyec.org), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab (http://mystartuplab.com/), a free virtual
DC native startup Spinnakr announces seed round with Andreessen Horowitz, 500 Startups and more.
Cont3nt co-founder and 2012 NY Angel Hack winner, and DC mega startup enthusiast, Anton Gelman gets hackers excited about Angel Hack DC this past weekend at 1776.
YoPine is the best mobile micropolling platform we’ve seen. Check out where they’re based and it won’t take you long to figure out where they’re headed.
If you’re one of those people that combs the meme sites for the funniest memes, or recycles people’s old Facebook status’ on Twitter and vice versa to project a humor you don’t naturally have, no worries. There’s a photo app that will help you strike those funny poses even if you’re flat and boring. SnapDash
Before we dive into this list of 48 startup stories from everywhere else at SXSW 2013, in the words of the late great Billy Mays, “But wait there’s more”. We have another weeks worth of stories so if we met you or interviewed you and you don’t see your story yet, or your jonesing for
We’ve been following Washington DC conference calling startup Speek since they were little more than a pitch deck last year at a DC tech event. The company was founded by John Bracken, one of the cofounders of E-Vite (the precursor to Facebook events lol) and Danny Boice, a startup renaissance man, who even spoke at
On the heel’s of the Startup America Partnership’s second anniversary a new initiative, incubator and accelerator are launching just steps from the White House. It was on the White House lawn on January 31, 2010 when Startup America was officially launched. The new epicenter for entrepreneurship in Washington DC will be called 1776 and is
Acceleprise is a new Washington DC based accelerator that is targeting new startups in the Enterprise space. TechCrunch recently said that Acceleprise wants to be the “500 startups for Entreprise” Acceleprise has great DC based founders in Sean Glass, Allen Gannett and Collin Gutman. They also have some great mentors that include well known founders,
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