From April 9 – 13, we will be in sunny Jacksonville, FL to bring you coverage of the second annual One Spark Crowdfunding Festival. This year look bigger and better, and there is more than $3.25M up for grabs.
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Andrew Wolson (above left) presented one of the most interesting Creator Projects that we saw at One Spark. Andrew's project, "Skateboard wheel printer," is still in its infancy, as far a becoming an actual product. However, Andrew told us that he has had the idea in the back of his mind for 3+ years. Andrew [...]
One of our favorite One Spark Creators that we had a chance to speak with was Craig Riley, the Founder of Kid Keemo. Kid Keemo was created to "make kids with cancer feel normal again."Kide Keemo One Spark Creator Profile Kid Keemo is actually the character that you see above. Kid Keemo is a part [...]
Every now and then, something so simple comes along that just blows our minds. Dosing Dials is definitely one of those things. The number of accidental overdoses amongst children is at an all time high. While many of these cases involve self-ingestion of medicines - a child taking drugs on their own - there is [...]
While we were in Jacksonville for One Spark, we had a chance to speak with Taylor Wallace, the co-Founder of WeVue. "WeVue", Wallace told us, "is an app platform that allows anyone to crowdsource pictures or videos from an event and easily turn that content into videos on your phone." The idea is that you [...]
There is no question that there are a ton of idle companies out there. Companies that may have failed, been extremely slow growing, companies with little to no traction, and side work that is going untouched. One of the largest reasons for this is a simple lack of interest and or time to devote. Any [...]
We had a chance to speak with Abu Alim during One Spark. Alim was displaying his project, "Push and Go Electric Bike." Of all the projects that were on display at One Spark, Alim's electric bike is easily the one with the most potential. In a nutshell, the bike utilizes an open thermodynamic system that allows [...]
Just the other day, I was talking with one of my friends about group messaging. I know, fascinating topic of conversation. Anyhow, we reached the conclusion that was not really a good solution. The stock SMS apps of both Android and iOS are funky, and make it difficult to maintain long-standing group message rooms, leaving [...]
Anther application that we were looking forward to checking out at One Spark was Event Socially. In a nutshell, Event Socially is an application that gathers event data, info, and pictures from all the various social networks and puts all that information into one easy to use web and mobile format. EventSocially is the authoritative source [...]
Another one of the One Spark Creators that we were really looking forward to checking out was Bucketwish. Essentially, Bucketwish is an online platform, through which users can share their goals, wishes and bucket lists in a social media setting: Bucketwish.com is a social media platform designed to organize and enhance gift giving for traditional and [...]
Yesterday, we told you about some Easter-themed apps, today we went in a completely different direction. We decided to share some cannabis-themed iOS apps in honor or 4/20. I really had no idea how many cannabis/weed/pot/dope iOS apps there were. There are tons. Of all the cannabis iOS apps we looked at, here are the [...]
