Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

bbc.co.uk

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 38 posts

Re: Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

#21

Post by paraschopra »

bencollier49 wrote: post #19
paraschopra wrote: post #17

This is FANTASTIC! I am quite excited about the whole proposition. Wish it were there when I was in college... So I quickly contacted several of my friends here in Delhi, India and got them many of them interested. Now we have: http://awesomefoundation.in/ Anyone in India/Delhi, who is interested in joining this, hit me up at paras1987@gmail.com

Are you related to the original Awesome Foundation, or have you just taken the same name?

Not related, but keen on becoming a chapter. Not sure if there are official requirements or it is organic such as BarCamp. (Hoping and assuming it is the latter)

Re: Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

#22

Post by goatforce5 »

paraschopra wrote: post #21
bencollier49 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you related to the original Awesome Foundation, or have you just taken the same name?

Not related, but keen on becoming a chapter. Not sure if there are official requirements or it is organic such as BarCamp. (Hoping and assuming it is the latter)

http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/about_us has details on what to do if you want to be affiliated with them.

Re: Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

#23

Post by nodata »

paraschopra wrote: post #17

This is FANTASTIC! I am quite excited about the whole proposition. Wish it were there when I was in college... So I quickly contacted several of my friends here in Delhi, India and got them many of them interested. Now we have: http://awesomefoundation.in/ Anyone in India/Delhi, who is interested in joining this, hit me up at paras1987@gmail.com

So you're not connected to them at all, you're not a foundation, and you straight up copied their name?

Re: Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

#24

Post by cing »

I've given 3 oral pitches to my local Awesome Foundation over the years and wasn't selected each time. Not sure if that says something about my ideas, pitch skills, or what, but it's a bit of a bummer. FYI: The ideas were a completely solar/bike-powered LAN party, an electronics recycling drive where you get to smash computers with sledgehammers, and a student conference where all the research posters are wheatpasted onto the walls of a graffiti-filled alleyway and presented with paint markers.

Re: Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

#25

Post by goatforce5 »

X4 wrote: post #9
jfarmer wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

I know some Awesome trustees, and they're not millionaires or even close to it. Just regular Joes who think it's worth $100 a month to meet some interesting people and to be part of something cool.

$100 is not 'nothing', but plenty of people would spend that on other hobbies.

Re: Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

#26

Post by tibbon »

cing wrote: post #24

I've given 3 oral pitches to my local Awesome Foundation over the years and wasn't selected each time. Not sure if that says something about my ideas, pitch skills, or what, but it's a bit of a bummer. FYI: The ideas were a completely solar/bike-powered LAN party, an electronics recycling drive where you get to smash computers with sledgehammers, and a student conference where all the research posters are wheatpasted…

Sorry to hear about that- and I encourage you to reapply (even with the same ideas again!). Sometimes it isn't that your idea wasn't awesome, but that there were just a lot of other awesome ideas coming in that month.

- David Fisher (AF trustee/co-founder)

Re: Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

#28

Post by tibbon »

paraschopra wrote: post #21
bencollier49 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you related to the original Awesome Foundation, or have you just taken the same name?

Not related, but keen on becoming a chapter. Not sure if there are official requirements or it is organic such as BarCamp. (Hoping and assuming it is the latter)

Please do get in touch via the website. We're super flexible on chapters running themselves largely as they'd like (quite similar to Barcamp), but we'd like to officially have you in the loop to be able to provide you with resources and connections to the rest of us.

- David Fisher (AF-trustee & co-founder)

Re: Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [video]

#30

Post by 1337biz »

cing wrote: post #24

I've given 3 oral pitches to my local Awesome Foundation over the years and wasn't selected each time. Not sure if that says something about my ideas, pitch skills, or what, but it's a bit of a bummer. FYI: The ideas were a completely solar/bike-powered LAN party, an electronics recycling drive where you get to smash computers with sledgehammers, and a student conference where all the research posters are wheatpasted…

an electronics recycling drive where you get to smash computers with sledgehammers,

Would be super interested in these. I am sitting on all the HDs I ever had and would love to get them destroyed in front of my eyes but am to lazy to do it myself.

Post reply on HN