Readers of the old blog may remember this post, “Sex beats Stocks”, where I mentioned my idea for a due diligence trip to Perth, Australia to visit Alloy Steel International (OTCBB: AYSI.OB) getting rejected by Kickstarter (incidentally, I checked just now and that sex book project ended up raising more than 5x the money its editresses had initially sought to raise). Now, Kickstarter has a competitor, RocketHub.
Co-founder Vladimir Vukicevic described RocketHub to me this way, via e-mail:
At heart, we are an open grassroots crowdfunding platform. RocketHub has taken the best concepts from sites such as Sellaband, IndieGoGo, Kickstarter, Foursquare, iStockphoto, and eBay, and thrown in our own elements of fun, playfulness, and a unique brand. We’ve been in open beta for only about a month now but have some solid traction.
I do like the site’s rocket iconography and brand triggers (to put to work a phrase I learned recently from Seth Hosko). Vlad also assured me that RocketHub would welcome my project.
I joined the site yesterday, and plan to post one. I’m just wondering whether I should make my initial idea a little more ambitious: it’s a long way to Perth, and I’m sure I’d dread that ~30 hour (with stops) return flight. Alternatively, instead of flying back the way I came, I could keep going. It’s only about 9 hours from Perth to Capetown, South Africa, less than 8 hours from there to São Paulo, Brazil, then about 8 hours from there back to New York (without stops). I could spend a few days in South Africa and Brazil and research a couple of investing ideas in those countries on the way back. I have to decide if I want to just go for Perth, or go for that little circumnavigation of the southern hemisphere. I’ll post one of those two project ideas (or something else) on RocketHub though. In the meantime, you may want to check out some of the projects currently on RocketHub — or post your own.
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