Tagged: rockethub

June 11, 2013 @ 6:23 am By JD Alois  |  

“The Institute for Conscious Global Change” (ICGC), a non-profit organization run 100% by volunteers, has entered the second half of their crowdfunding  Rockethub Campaign.  The organization needs your help now.  ICGC is aiming to raise just $2600 for their annual “Geographic Information System” (GIS) server… Read More

June 6, 2013 @ 9:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Would you believe that after all of the noise the Dodge Dart Registry made when it launched in January of 2013, it resulted in two sales? Two. This is one of the revelations from a report on BrandChannel.com, a news outlet that covers brand marketing… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 7:39 am By Newswire  |  

Crowd Funding Leader, Alon Hillel-Tuch was born in the land of dairy products and agricultural fields, which is the beautiful and wonderful land of Holland. He was raised in one of the high profile cities in the world according to tourism that is Amsterdam. He… Read More

June 4, 2013 @ 8:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Venture for America Fellowship Program has Announced Fellow Innovation Fund to Support Projects in Detroit, New Orleans, and Other Cities.  Venture for America will be partnering with crowdfunding platform RocketHub.   Venture for America, a  program that helps recent grads become entrepreneurs,  will be offering… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 10:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Back in April we reported on a partnership between RocketHub and Pouplar Science that encouraged readers of PopSci to submit their projects and ideas to RocketHub for consideration and crowdfunding… Crowdfunding site RocketHub has started a project with Popular Science to crowdfund their readers best ideas…. Read More

May 29, 2013 @ 7:24 am By Emily Kuo  |  

Recently, the use of crowdfunding has skyrocketed, increasing 81% in funds raised between 2011 and 2012 across the 308 platforms according to the Crowdfunding Industry Report by Massolution. Crowdfunding is an alternative financing method where collective effort of individuals supports and funds the initiatives of… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 4:44 pm By Austin Business Journal  |  

When it comes to crowdfunding, or raising capital or donations for projects online, RocketHub CEO Brian Meece says entrepreneurs can learn a thing or two from artist types. As the featured speaker at a June 20 PR Over Coffee event, Meece shared what crowdfunding platform RocketHub has… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 11:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A crowdfunding campaign currently live on RocketHub aims to bring a funding solution to the dwindling discipline of long-form investigative journalism. NEWSFREED aims to bring crowdsourcing and crowdfunding aspects to journalism, and the elevator pitch outlines a pretty cool product that could have some legs… Read More

April 17, 2013 @ 1:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

RocketHub has announced a partnership with A&E that will give select entrepreneurs listing on the RocketHub platform a great opportunity to get some exposure and possibly some funding. A&E is the first major television network involved in the crowdfunding movement, and RocketHub is proud to… Read More

April 14, 2013 @ 10:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding site RocketHub has started a project with Popular Science to crowdfund their readers best ideas.  Popular Science has been around for a long time.  By their own records over 140 years having been founded in 1872 by Edward Youmans whose mission was to share… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Somerset based apps development firm is showcasing their new autism intervention program called iLearnNEarn 2nd Generation aka iLearnNEarn2 on RocketHub. The program will be the next edition of WebTeam’s widely circulated autism app series iLearnNEarn, which is based on the applied behavior analysis (ABA) model of… Read More

April 1, 2013 @ 10:12 am By Eleanor Whitney  |  

I got involved in feminist and social justice organizing, making zines and playing in indie and punk bands as a teenager. As I grew up and became an “adult” in this community I realized the people around me were incredibly motivated and had great ideas… Read More

March 1, 2013 @ 6:04 am By JD Alois  |  

The Dodge Dart Registry is an interesting angle on crowdfunding – where the crowdfunding is more marketing than a fund raising tactic.  The platform, powered by RocketHub, currently has over 6000 “registrants” listed on the site.  Registrants are individuals who have created their car, similar… Read More

February 18, 2013 @ 2:30 pm By RocketHub  |  

Lincoln County Community Theater (LCCT), the resident theater company at Damariscotta’s Lincoln Theater, has embarked on new relationships and an innovative approach for its upcoming concert production of HMS Pinafore, with three performances only the weekend of March 8. According to Wikipedia, Community Theater “may… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 8:05 pm By Forbes  |  

Perhaps it was just a matter of time – but here’s a new development in the funding of academic research and technology commercialization. The University of Utah’s Technology Commercialization Office (TCO)—#1 in the country for startups launched by research organizations for three of the last five years—has… Read More

January 28, 2013 @ 2:30 am By Forbes  |  

Can’t afford a new car? Try crowdfunding. This novel idea comes from Chrysler Group, which lays out the details in the latest ads for its 2013 Dodge Dart. A television commercial that began airing this week introduces the Dodge Dart Registry, a website that allows… Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dodge creatively redefines how to purchase the groundbreaking all-new 2013 Dodge Dart just as the brand redefined what a world-class compact car should be Registry launches with new 30-second ‘How to Change Buying Cars Forever’ TV spot debuting January 20 on Fox Network NFC championship broadcast ‘Dodge… Read More

January 9, 2013 @ 4:51 pm By Silicon Hills News  |  

Perks-based crowdfunding is nothing new, said Brian Meece, co-founder of Rockethub. In 1885, a fundraising effort to buy a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty raised $102,000 from more than 120,000 contributors. Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, ran an ad in his… Read More

January 9, 2013 @ 3:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfund Texas featured a panel focused on forecasting crowdfunding’s success. The panel featured plenty of optimism, but was also peppered with words of warning for an industry in a holding pattern as rules and regulations move glacially toward completion. Dara Albright of the NowStreet Journal… Read More

January 8, 2013 @ 1:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

View the Presentation presented by RocketHub at the Crowdfund Texas event held in Austin on January 8th, 2013.   RocketHub: The Crowdfunding Success Pattern from CrowdfundInsider