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RocketHub

This weekend I will be travelling to New York City (where I used to live) to visit some friends, and to support a new web based business started by some former colleagues of mine.  While in New York, I had the pleasure of working at a real estate company with some great people who became good friends.  Two of these friends, Brian Meece and Jed Cohen, have recently started an internet company called RocketHub.com. RocketHub is a website that allows individuals to help “fuel” various creative projects, here is an excerpt from the site:

RocketHub is the brainchild of Brian, Jed, Vlad and a small team of compatriots. This merry band of creatives met while working in Manhattan. Realizing that business alone was not enough to capture their collective imagination, the group decided to build a web-based community for Creatives by Creatives, with the goal of liberating creativity and driving the new creative economy

RocketHub is the premier site for crowdfunding creative projects. We provide the credibilityand infrastructure necessary to successfully leverage the financial power of your communityand launch creative projects and endeavors.

If any of you are as interested in the arts as I am and would like to help “fuel” some of the great creative projects on the site, then please take just a few minutes to check-out RocketHub.com and see some of the great projects available.  This is a great opportunity to fund cool projects and get awesome stuff in return such as free tickets to shows, wardrobe consultations, songwriting clinics, surfing lessons, etc.  Trust me when I tell you that Brian & Jed are ambitious, creative, and all around great guys!

Please check out RocketHub and give some support if you can.

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