James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
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Started by Michael Rossi February 4th, 2012
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This proposal is to develop research projects for undergraduate and master’s-level students to provide them with the opportunity to learn how to develop, implement and analyze a full-project while working on a serious basic research issue. We will be looking at the process whereby growths change from being benign to metastatic. Most cancers develop from tissues that are referred to as epithelial. These cells normally have very specific attachment to the neighboring cells that prevent them from leaving the area. When these cells develop abnormal growth this leads to begin growths that are localized and typically able to be successfully removed by surgery. If, however they change their attachments it becomes possible for them to leave the site of origin and migrate throughout the body looking for alternative sites. This creates a metastatic state that is no longer able to be removed by surgery alone, but requires chemotherapy and radiation to attempt to target the remote sites that are too small to be seen. The students will be examining the proteins that make the connections between cells that have low metastatic potential and comparing that to daughter cells that have developed increased ability to leave the initial site of growth. These experiments require us to have ways of detecting the proteins and the instructions for their synthesis and these reagents become the limiting factors in determining how many students I can support. For undergraduate students, about $750 is needed per student while master’s students with larger projects typically require $1,500 per project. If we surpass our goals it would allow me to increase the number of students supported. The $6,000 I am trying to raise would support two undergraduate students and three graduate students helping them to become more complete scientists.
RocketHub is not an investment or charity. It is an exchange: funds from fans for rewards from me. It's an All & More funding mechanism: if I don't reach my financial goal I get to keep what I raise. But if I do reach my goal, I get access to exciting opportunities.