This Kickstarter Raised $25,000 in an Hour
Bixi, a smart home hub that allows you to control other smart, connected devices with gestures, raised $25,000 in one hour from its Kickstarter campaign. The startup is currently at over $43K with 38...
View Article#BE30DayChallenge: 5 Prep Steps to Launch a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
Crowdfunding has had its share of success stories. Fundraisers have secured millions to develop everything from hotels and electric cars, to devices that track lost wallets to creative film projects....
View ArticleActor Shemar Moore’s Journey to Independent Filmmaking
A few years ago, actor Shemar Moore had a crazy idea: produce and star in a romantic comedy movie, without the backing of a major Hollywood production or distribution company. Rather than turning to...
View Article#BE30DayChallenge Week 3: Offer Great Perks at Reasonable Cost
You need to pull out all the stops and offer great perks, when running a successful crowdfunding campaign. In Part 1 of this series, we showed you how to cultivate donors, and in Part 2, how to create...
View Article#BE30DayChallenge Week 4: Manage And Cultivate Your Audience
Crowdfunding is a viable alternative to the traditional route used to raise capital to start a business, launch a product, or fund a project. There are success stories of entrepreneurs raising...
View ArticleDirector Matthew Cherry Leverages Twitter to Fundraise ‘Hair Love’ Film
Director Matthew Cherry, who is known for his strong animated GIF presence adding multitudes of color to Twitter’s social media chatter, recently released a Kickstarter campaign in efforts to provide...
View ArticleAfrocentric Empowerment Dolls Changing the Way Black Girls See Beauty
At just 4 years old, Zara Kimotho had an identity crisis. As the only African American girl in her preschool, she intrinsically knew that her blackness made her different and she didn’t feel pretty....
View ArticleMiami Mompreneur Who Raised $20,000 on Kickstarter Is Open for Business
After launching a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2017 for her party supplies business, Craft My Occasion mompreneur Lynnette Abbott said it is time for her to deliver on sales to prove that her...
View ArticleFind Black Santa With This App
For several years, Jihan Woods — a physician, mom and Hampton University alum, struggled to find a black Santa for her children during the holiday season. Inspired by finding a black Santa at a...
View Article18-Year Old to Launch Coffee & Apothecary Shop That Serves as an Incubator...
A barrier-breaking fundraising campaign has launched on Kickstarter by recent high school graduate and entrepreneur, Zachary Hamlett. He aims to open The Hamlett, San Diego’s newest Black-owned coffee...
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