dc tech beat

Slatecard.com is a utility to support and enhance Republican activism and was created by David All, a well known DC interactive strategist and Sendhil Panchadsaram.
Slatecard PAC is an independent, federally registered political action committee (PAC) which acts as a “conduit” to raise money online to help Republican candidates for federal office in compliance with the […]

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On the same day that DC seems to finally be getting some attention for being a bastion for web 2.0 style startups…

Articles in today’s Washington Post:
Bulding a Community Byte, By Byte
and
Web’s New Field of Dreams Emerges in DC

…Kleiner Perkins has indicated that they’re not at all interested in funding any more Web 2.0 ventures.
“We have […]

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The Washington Post’s Kendra Marr has an article in today’s paper about HolaNeighbor and DC Startup Weekend.  The article does a good job at capturing the excitement and enthusiasm that went into the weekend, both in respect to building a new company and product, and in seeing the DC tech scene come alive.  My favorite […]

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I ran into Eric Litman at the nclud Halloween party and we chatted a bit about his plans for WashingtonVC (WVC). As of November 1st, Litman joins WashingtonVC as their new managing director.
About WVC:
WVC intends to establish itself and promote its parts in 6 major US cities, DC, NY, BOS, SEA, SF, LA, and […]

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One of the key sites to emerge of the last few months in helping the DC tech community organize has been DCTechEvents.com. DCTechEvents.com is the brainchild of Ross Karchner; he launched the site in May of this year as a means of alleviating his frustration in keeping up with the ever-growing number of events […]

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DC startup Searchles has added a new feature called Searchles TV Remash, which lets users clip and splice pieces of YouTube videos to create new content.
The new service takes a bit of time to get used to, but once you do, it’s relatively easy to edit a video. By dragging and dropping videos into […]

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Startup Weekend, which “recruits a highly motivated group of small business entrepreneurs to build a community and company in a weekend,” came to DC this past weekend for the first DC Startup Weekend. The best and brightest of the DC tech community gathered at Viget Lab’s new offices in Falls Church to create […]

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