Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]
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#2One of the events they funded was called Balloonacy:
https://www.facebook.com/events/277093279051184/
I helped solder like a bazillion motion sensor LEDs to a board to stick in all the balloons.
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#3Venture communism?
Re: Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]
#4To learn more about projects funded and the ideas behind the foundation have a look at their web site - community funding / support at its finest - http://www.awesomefoundation.org/
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#5Venture communism?
I'd say it's more like "venture anarchy" or "venture lololololol".
There's no central organization and each chapter is self-organizing. I was a trustee of the SF chapter for about two years. :)
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#6I was lucky enough to receive the Melbourne Grant a few months back. It allowed me to prototype a product I eventually tried to get up on crowd-funding. Sadly no luck there, but great initiative and meant I could at least give it a go and learn something.
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#7I was lucky enough to receive the Melbourne Grant a few months back. It allowed me to prototype a product I eventually tried to get up on crowd-funding. Sadly no luck there, but great initiative and meant I could at least give it a go and learn something.
What was it about? Why did you have no success?
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#8This is great! How come I have not heard of this before? I have so many awesome side projects that would need a bit of help in order to pay for servers/continue development.
But seriously, I applied to the Knowledge chapter with http://sciencegist.com. Fingers crossed :)
It's also quite inspiring to see the different kinds of projects being funded by this foundation. It helps with the feeling of being alone in the world of projects which "will help people, but can't make money".
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#9Venture communism?
I'd say it's more like "venture anarchy" or "venture lololololol". There's no central organization and each chapter is self-organizing. I was a trustee of the SF chapter for about two years. :)
This woman has balls, totally awesome, luv her idea to embetter ones surrounding just by empowering people to DO it. There's a lot Mill-/Billionaires can learn from her.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the concept of self-organization! Writing a thesis+project on it :)
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