New Collapsible Travel Mug Makes it Easy to Reduce Paper Cup Waste
Recognizing the importance of consumer adoption, Zens ensured that Zip Cup is dishwasher safe, free from harmful additives like BPA, and recyclable at the end of its lifespan. “It’s important to me that Zip Cup is as safe as possible for people and the planet. I believe people want to do the right thing and reduce waste, but they’re looking for convenient options. Zip Cup provides that option for people who like to drink coffee on the go”
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, karla-zens, recyclable, travel-mug, zip-cup
Read More →Surfer Blood – "Demon Dancer" (new song) live @ Cake Shop (New York, Jul 19th, 2012)
Amazing “secret” show at the Cake Shop in the Lower East Side in New York! This place deserves to stay alive!
Tags: cake-shop, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, demon-dancer, live-music, new-song, nyc, surfer-blood, unreleased
Read More →Bluecrowd.ca – Crowdfunding for conservatives
Do you have a great idea to promote freedom and conservatism in Canada? Get it funded at bluecrowd.ca. – or help fund a project yourself.
Tags: canada, conservative, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing
Read More →Cake Shop Lives To Rock Another Day
This spring, venerable Lower East Side venue Cake Shop was in trouble: fines and legal fees threatened to shut down one of the last remaining places in Manhattan where you could pick up a cheap beer and feel the flecks of sweat fly off a soon-to-be famous musician. The owners set up a crowdsourcing fundraiser (with perks!) and lo, on the day it was to expire, Cake Shop reached 100% of their goal.
Tags: cake-shop, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, live-music, local-music, local-venues, lower-east, manhattan, side
Read More →Crowdsourcing: Who Benefits The Most?
The greatest appeal of crowdsourcing is how it can help deliver projects in such cheap prices compared to soliciting the services of a professional, allowing even small and startup business to produce attractive websites, advertisements, and marketing materials that could compete with those produced by companies who have millions of dollars to spend. Companies no longer pay advertising companies millions of dollars when they can crowdsource the ideas and execution of their advertisements for much cheaper prices through GeniusRocket.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsource, crowdsourced, crowdsourcing, geniusrocket, kickstarter, knowledge
Read More →From trash to treasure, one Germantown artist’s quest to breathe new life into garbage
Through the crowd-funding website Kickstarter, they raised the money for their unique structure earlier this year, and secured a temporary home for it at 313 S. Broad Street, in an empty lot belonging to UArts.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, kickstarter, renewed-urban-studio-tent, rust
Read More →Should Celebrities Use Kickstarter to Fund Projects?
With so many finding success using crowdsourcing to fund projects, a new breed of investment seekers has emerged: celebrities. Examples are:
Former reality-star-turned-designer Whitney Port was asking for donations to fund her upcoming fashion line, set to debut at New York Fashion Week;
Whoopi Goldberg put out a call to raise $65,000 to fund her documentary about legendary comedian Moms Mabley;
Powerhouse author and blogger Seth Godin used Kickstarter to raise nearly $300,000 for his upcoming book (he was attempting to raise $40,000), The Icarus Deception.
Tags: celebrities, clutch, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, indiegogo, kickstarter
Read More →The Most Common Crowdfunding Mistakes
Crowdfunding campaigns for artistic projects are all the rage these days, but many of them fail when they probably shouldn’t.
Tags: common-mistakes, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing
Read More →Highway 395 the Movie to tryout Kickstarter.com for production funding
Hometown plans to hire veterans to work on their movies from this day forward. Their first order of business is to fund the movie. They intend to try this new and revolutionary way of film financing.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, faith, family-veterans, ptsd, supernatural-thriller
Read More →Everyone Funding Startups Podcast – Grow VC and the World Bank partner up in Africa [PODCAST]
In this podcast episode, Matia Mandela spoke about some of the recent developments with partnerships between the m:lab East Africa division of the World Bank and Grow VC International to promote the efforts of East Africa’s mobile entrepreneurship development services as well as the creation of the Pivot East Network which directly supports the Pivot East Competition. The Pivot East competion to bring together entrepreneurs and investors interested in the current opportunities in Africa.
Tags: africa, business, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, growvc-everyonefundingstartups, pivoteast, podcast, startups, worldbank
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