By Punch Passport Correspondent Loreana S. Gonzalez Lazzarini Last week I went to Tech Cocktail’s Mixer & Startup Showcase in the new 1776 Start-Up Campus. The Mixer & Startup Showcase is a “cocktail-style” and “trade show” event with roughly 11 companies exhibiting at tables set-up around the room perimeter. Guests were able to walk around the room, [...]
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Review: Scosche’s Rhythm Health + Fitness Monitor
By Punch Correspondent Zoraida Rodriguez-Keeton Disclosure: I am a fitness junky, running junky to be exact. But because I do triathlons I weight lift, swim, bike and run multiple times per week. I’ve used a heart rate monitor for a few years and at first, I didn’t truly understand the concept or purpose of using [...]
StartUp RockOn Presents Inaugural Celebration with Grammy Nominee Lupe Fiasco
Punch Community, the is a PRIVATE Inauguration event but if you are one of the few lucky ones who gets in, go for it.  StartUp RockOn Inauguration 2013 featuring Lupe Fiasco on Sunday night at 9pm at The Hamilton is NOT open to the general public.  We’ve set up a private link, however, for YOU, including [...]
Guest Post: Giveaway: Tech-Savvy Inauguration
By Twanda Washington, director of retail sales, AT&T This weekend, with the Inauguration, all eyes will be on the District of Columbia. Hundreds of thousands of visitors will descend upon the National Mall and swell the streets. And that means tons of people on their smartphones and tablets, taking photos, sharing video, researching activities, rating [...]
ESA Kicks Off the Holiday Season
Last Thursday evening, the Entertainment Software Association kicked off Washington’s annual holiday party season with a packed event at the hip Rock & Roll Hotel on H Street. Hundreds of partygoers packed into the club’s three levels to mingle and play games like Ubisoft’s Just Dance 4 and Assassin’s Creed III. A number of notable [...]
#GivingTuesday Begins …
We’re almost to the finish line, but not quite yet. There was Black Friday, Small Business Saturday (did you support our hard working local retailers? hope you did!), NFL Sunday (ok, that’s not a shopping holiday, it’s your day for you to become one with your couch), Cyber Monday and now … Giving Tuesday! With [...]
Digital Capital Week Closing Party
This past weekend some friends and I attended (along with over 2,000 others) the Digital Capital Week present by Ford (DCWeek) Closing Party. This mega fun party organized by iStrategy Labs, Peter Corbett, Tech Cocktail, Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber, took place in an abandoned and reinvented space on DC’s revitalized H Street NE. People [...]
TEDxMidAtlantic Encourages Us to BE FEARLESS
Being scared is just a part of being human, right? At least that’s my humble opinion. I mean, I’m not a chicken per se, but one of the things I have learned to embrace is that it’s good to be a bit fearful, have trepidation. It’s what you do with that energy, that matters. If [...]
FotoDC Presents the 5th Annual FotoWeekDC Festival
FotoDC, Washington’s only nonprofit 501(c)(3) dedicated to serving photographers and photography lovers will be presenting the 5th Annual FotoWeekDC Festival to be held across the region November 9th through 18th. The inaugural Festival took place in 2008 and has now evolved and re-branded to become FotoDC, a thriving nonprofit with year-round programming beginning in 2011. [...]
Punch Profiles: People to Know / 8 Questions with Micha Weinblatt co-founder of betterific and Crooked Monkey
One of my favorite people in the area is Micha Weinblatt (above). There are several reasons for this. The kid (he’s really not a kid, but I always think of him as a bright, earnest, hard working, do-gooding, honest kid) embodies so many qualities that truly make up an entrepreneur, a businessman, a friend and [...]
Local Entrepreneurs Gather at Google to Network and Inspire
By Punch Correspondent Karen Garnick People say New York is the city that never sleeps, but what about DC? Young, creative minds flock to our city every year, with aspirations to make a difference and try something new. Commonly known as “Generation Y,†we are tech savvy, confident, and too ambitious to just settle. In [...]
Punch Profiles: People to Know / 10 Questions with Changemaker, Social Investor & Innovator Adam Ross, Founder of Socialvest
Last month when we were in Atlanta for a fundraising event put on by Meringue Boutique, we had the opportunity to meet the folks who started a platform which allows consumers and retailers to buy and give back. The more you purchase, the more you give, in other words, a way for we the people [...]
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