Tag Archives: Funded

99% Invisible’s Roman Mars Joins Us Live To Talk Crowdfunding

We had the pleasure of virtually “sitting down with” 99% Invisible host Roman Mars only 24 hours into his latest Kickstarter campaign. The conversation streamed live, and really, you should’ve been there. But lucky for you, Youtube never forgets, so we’ve posted the full video right here. You’re welcome. As …

Why Detroit Is The Perfect Place to Kickoff Our Crowdfunding Web Series

Although I’ve been visiting my sister in Lansing, Michigan for over seven years, I only got a good look at Detroit for the first time one year ago. I had been invited by MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito to be part of a four-day innovation hackathon involving the Lab, …

Comedy Nerds Take Note: You’ve Never Seen A Kickstarter Campaign Like This One

The comedy world has definitely begun to dip its toes into the crowdfunding pool—Myq Kaplan ran this satirical campaign, Eugene Mirman funded a festival, and Above Average now has a ‘Thingstarter’ series—but through all my research for our AOL show Funded, I never found anybody from the comedy world who …

Awkward Black Girls & Pretty Grey Cubes: Funded Takes L.A.

New York is a literary city and also a place that you’re worried may kill you at any moment’s notice, so it’s little surprise that our first two episodes of Funded that we shot there carried similar themes. Fittingly, our trip to L.A. this past week featured cameras filming cameras …

Hazmat Suits And An East Harlem Bookstore: Behind The Making Of Our Web Series, Funded

Two down, eight to go. That’s our progress bar for shooting the web series we’re making with AOL about successfully crowdfunded businesses. A few weeks ago, we went up to East Harlem to visit Aurora Anaya-Cerda, owner of La Casa Azul Bookstore. It’s the only independent bookstore in East Harlem …

We’ll See You In Cannes. We’ve Always Wanted To Say That (Also, Berlin and NYC)

As part of our relationship with AOL for our web series Funded, the entire Cultivated Wit team will be going to Cannes, France for the Cannes Lions Festival June 16-20. While there, we will attend things while nodding our heads, shake many hands, and flash a series of increasingly large …

Announcement! We’re Making A Show For AOL About Crowdfunding And You Can Help

The video above is called a “sizzle reel,” which is an industry term that means, “We are badass, and everyone should watch and sponsor this program.” That’s right, we make television now (or the thing that looks and acts like a television but still allows snobby people to say “I …