In this quick and easy to understand guide, we’ll share exactly how to create, sell and buy NFT art. And while you may not be an artist or creator, this article will help you understand how people are creating NFTs that are selling for $69 million at auctions hosted by Christie’s or how one 12 year old made $160,000 in 24 hours selling NFTs.
Get comfortable, because by the end of this article you’ll know enough to be entertained, informed and ready to dive right into NFTs. Content of This Series Post 1: Basics On The Ethereum Blockchain Post 2: How To Buy Ethereum, Setting up a Place to Trade Post 3: What is an NFT?, What’s the Difference Between Fungible Tokens vs Non Fungible Tokens, How To Create An NFT Post 4: Creating the Artwork, Popular NFT Art Creation Tools Post 5: Why Art NFTs Are Growing, NFTs as a Vehicle for Positive Change Post 6: How To Sell NFT Art, How To Buy NFTs, How To Market Your Art Post 7: Showcasing NFT Art Creations and Collectibles, Supporting the NFT Artist Community Post 8: Conclusion
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How to Buy Ethereum Ethereum can be bought using various cryptocurrency exchanges. There are various different exchanges in the US including Robinhood, Coinbase, and Metamask . These platforms allows you to buy, store, and sell cryptocurrency. Setting Up a Place to Trade: Trading on Metamask Once you’ve purchased your Ethereum, you’ll need to send them to your wallet for storing. Here we will show you how to use Metamask for this. This step is required because a decentralized wallet is needed to create, sell and buy NFTs. Metamask is a decentralized Ethereum wallet that allows you to store Ethereum and other tokens. It also allows you to connect to NFT marketplaces and other Decentralized Finance (DeFi) websites and tools. While it isn’t the only DeFi wallet on the market, it has over 5 million users globally and is supported by Consensus which is one of the largest blockchain companies in the world. Once you’ve purchased Ethereum, send the funds to your Metamask wallet because you will need them in the wallet to create your NFT. These funds will cover the $80 - $100+ worth of gas fees it will take to pay for minting your NFT. Minting is the process of turning art files into NFTs on the Ethereum Blockchain. Note: Only get your Metamask wallet from https://metamask.io/ and be sure you backup your wallet recovery phrase and password. One backup copy is good. Two copies are better. Three or more copies is best. Creating The Artwork There is no right or wrong way to create art because this is based on the artist. But one thing I’ve learned and valued over years of building and creating technology is that no creation takes place without action. I say this because people often get so caught up in making something that is perfect to create anything. However, learning, experience, and mastery come from action. Popular NFT Art Creation Tools Most of the NFT on marketplaces today is digital art in the form of photographs, videos, short films, and 3D renders. Despite being the majority of NFT art today, many ignore that it’s possible to also include physical objects with your digital art if you include a method to take delivery of the physical version of your art. Photo Editing Software
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Hopefully, this series has helped you learn how to create, sell and buy NFTs. Many people like yourself are continuing to educate themselves on these tokens as it is rapidly gaining a larger following across the world. Continue to delve deeper into the relatively young world of Art NFTs to possibly engage in this new opportunity our internet has to offer.
If you think this article will help someone in your community, share it. Be sure to support NFT artists and marketplaces and consider joining this growing community. What is an NFT? The abbreviation NFT stands for Non Fungible Token. But that’s just a definition and doesn’t tell you what it is. An NFT is a smart contract which is a smart contract that is unique and is not a duplicate of any other smart contract. NFT themselves can be single NFTs in a collection or multiple NFTs in a collection. What’s the Difference Between Fungible Tokens vs Non Fungible Tokens? The difference between a Fungible Token and a Non Fungible Token is that a fungible token can be divided into smaller parts and still carry all the character traits of the original unit and can be replaced by another identical item. A good example would be the difference between Bitcoin or Ethereum and a piece of art or a house. While Ethereum can be divided and still be similar and usable like the whole, if a house is divided it’s nothing like the sum of its parts. You also can’t exchange one house for another because no two are the same. How To Create An NFT Once your art is created, minting is probably the easiest step. You’ll need the following to mint on Rarible. We’re starting with Rarible because once you mint on Rarible you can easily share your artwork on other NFT marketplaces like OpenSea and Mintable. The instructions below assume that you’ve already purchased Ethereum, created a Metamask wallet, transferred the Ethereum to your wallet, and installed the Metamask browser extension in your browser or the app on your mobile device. 1. Go to Rarible’s website: 2. Click “Connect wallet” in the top right of your browser to connect your Metamask wallet to Rarible’s website. 3. Click “Create” to create your NFT 4. Click “Single” to create a single NFT. 5. Upload the file you want to use to create your NFT. You can upload a PNG, GIF, WEBP, MP4 or MP3 with a maximum size of 100 MB. Also, enter the price of your NFT in ETH and it will show the price in US Dollars. Also be aware that there is a 2.5% service fee on Rarible sales. 6. On the next step, you will enter the 1) Title, 2) Description and 3) Royalties (which can range from 0% up to a maximum of 50%). And yes you can get paid royalties on all resales of your NFT art and the money automatically gets sent to your wallet. I will talk about number 4 and the “Create” button in the next step 7. Click create to create an ERC-721 version of your art. The reason why you should create this version of your art is so it is compatible with other NFT marketplaces. In this form you will add 1) a Photo that represents your art, 2) a Display name, 3) a Symbol that has no spaces or special characters and is no more than 20 characters, 4) a Description that has a maximum of 220 characters and 5) a Short URL with no spaces in the format of “my-nft-art”. 8. Next, you will click the “Create collection” button to create your NFT art. 9. You will go through several signing steps to mint your art, but once it’s done your art will show on your profile and in the Rarible marketplace. Once your NFT Art is created... it can be easily shared on marketplaces such as DisruptArt . Before we get into creating and selling NFT art, we want to give you a brief refresher on blockchain technology. At its core, the blockchain is a distributed public ledger and a ledger is a fancy way of describing a database of transaction and/or item records. Most don’t realize it, but there are lots of ledgers in the world that people have been using for decades without even realizing it. For example, banks have a private ledger of account balances. And if you’ve used a Visa or Mastercard, you’ve used a distributed private ledger. For access to Visa’s ledger using debit and credit cards, they charge businesses a ‘merchant fee’. The main difference between distributed private ledgers and distributed public ledgers like the Ethereum blockchain is that public ledgers don’t require a centralized trusted authority to verify transactions or the authenticity of goods in a person’s wallet. The key benefit of decentralizing this authority is allowing creators and consumers to easily transact with each other. An artist creates art which is then signed with their wallet’s private signature to prove its authenticity. The signing is then recorded to the Ethereum blockchain. Then once someone buys the art, the buyer can verify the art’s authenticity using the public Ethereum blockchain. One of the benefits of the Ethereum Blockchain is that it supports Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts allow parties to transact with each other without a centralized authority. Ethereum is the currency required to transact using smart contracts and it is required to create and buy NFTs. When you transact in Ethereum you pay a fee called the ‘gas’ fee which varies depending on Ethereum blockchain traffic. This gas fee goes towards miners who process the computations used to process the smart contracts. The video below explains how this works in further detail. Why Art NFTs Are Growing
A lot of people have been wondering why NFT art has been growing at an amazing rate recently. What some are starting to realize is that NFTs help further democratize the art market by allowing new artists and any artists with access to the internet in any country in the world to get their creations to the market and allows other artists and non-artists alike to support artists directly. Additionally, platforms such as DisruptArt are providing people with more opportunities to easily share their work which encourages more people to exchange Art NFTs. NFTs As a Vehicle For Positive Change There is nothing more valuable than human creativity. While there are debates about NFTs and cryptocurrencies overall that focus on their energy consumption, the economic benefit of being able to support the creative endeavors of artists across mediums is undeniable. One thing I haven’t heard many people talk about is how much good comes from reducing the friction between creativity and commercialization. People also don’t talk about how many creatives are finally able to earn living wages by doing what they love. No organization has done the calculations or research yet, but I’d like to see a comparison between the electricity and resources being used by the global centralized financial system when compared to decentralized finance and blockchains. Considering there are no physical bank branches that are made with concrete, steel, electricity, and construction machines, I imagine the consumption of energy by the blockchain is much less. NFT art can be showcased only at marketplaces like OpenSea, Rarible and Mintable. Showcasing your artwork allows others to enjoy the artwork you’ve created as well as the pieces you’ve collected. One site that isn’t an NFT marketplace but has grown its community and collections of art is TryShowtime. NFTs can also be showcased using digital art frames. Some of the most popular frames are the following: You can also showcase your art using Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) A few VR spaces are the following: Supporting Your NFT Artist Community People come for the art and NFT technology and stay for the community. This is what I’ve found and observed since becoming more active in the NFT space. You’ll find that regardless of people’s interest, that overall the community is very engaged, responsive to questions and debates, and are passionate. Home page for DisruptArt How To Sell NFT Art
Once your NFT art is minted, your next job is to promote the artwork online and offline so people know that your art is available. At The Minters Collective we also recommend that artists list their artwork on multiple marketplaces. You might be wondering, “Why should artists list their art on multiple marketplaces?” When it comes to art, e-commerce, and related businesses, you never know where people who are passionate about your creation, products, or services will come from. In marketing and e-commerce terminology, this is called ‘omnichannel marketing’ because each marketplace where you showcase your artwork is a different channel. By listing your art in multiple marketplace channels you increase your chances of it being found and enjoyed. Suggestions for marketplaces: How to Market Your Art Marketing your NFT artwork is often a combination of promotion and community building. While some NFTs sell without promotion or community, both help a lot when it comes to building long-term support and interest in your artwork. A few things that will help you promote your creative talents and build community are the following:
One of my favorite articles about growing a community was written by Kevin Kelly and is called 1,000 True Fans. How to Buy NFTs Buying NFT art is mostly based on your preferences as an art collector. Some people buy NFT art based on the individual piece without knowing the artist while others buy multiple pieces from a specific artist. What you buy and why is up to you to define. Another reason to buy NFT art can be because the NFTs have a great community. Lots of awesome communities have sprung up around CryptoPunks, Meebits, Boring Bananas, Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC). About the Program
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On October 28, 2018, Columbus made national history when the Washington Gladden Social Justice Park, the first park in the nation dedicated to the theme of social justice, was opened at the corner of Broad Street and Cleveland Avenue. This Park was the vision of the First Congregational Church, which has been fighting for equal rights in Columbus since 1852. Think Make Live Youth honors this vision by hosting the Central Ohio Social Justice Awards Luncheon this year for the third time.
The Social Justice Awards mission is to showcase the success and achievements of social justice leadership. Our vision is that social justice leaders will know that their work is valued and will feel honored by their peers for their contributions. This year the luncheon celebration will honor grassroots organizers who have nurtured local community groups, developed leadership where none existed, and organized with the unorganized. Often bottom up organizing and social justice leadership go unnoticed. Not in 2021! This year the 2021 Central Ohio Social Justice Awards will honor them at a Luncheon Celebration on Friday, September 24, 2021, from 11AM - 1PM at the Boathouse at Confluence Park. This year’s Special Tribute Recipients: ● Kyle Strickland, Deputy Director of Race and Democracy at the Roosevelt Institute ● People Justice Project, Organizes the Black working class and other oppressed people into leading the struggle against all state institutions that oppress or occupy our communities. ● Wendy Tarr, Executive Director at Vincentian Ohio Action Network The Master of Ceremonies will be Rodney Dunigan, anchor and reporter at XSYX ABC6 News. Great food provided by the Boat House will be enhanced by fellowship, inspiring words, and uplifting music. Think Make Live Youth’s Columbus Community Action Team will host the event and present the Social Justice Awards to dedicated social justice leaders in these categories: Community Service, Education Advocacy, Law Enforcement, Legal Advocacy, Public Service, Restorative Justice, and Youth Justice. The public and those engaged in the social justice field are invited to nominate people and organizations who are committed to social justice through our online nomination form. To make a nomination, purchase a ticket or become a sponsor visit our event website at www.SocialJusticeAwards.org (Nomination Deadline is Monday, August 16, 2021) “It is in your hands to make a better world for all who live in it.” - Nelson Mandela Rob Richardson interviewed John Rogers, Founder, and Co-CEO of Ariel Investments about his journey and his recommendations to close the racial income gap in America. What You will learn: - Why long-term investors and corporate leaders should view addressing economic inequality and improving diversity as critical forms of risk management. - John’s family connection to the Tulsa massacre and how we can close the racial economic gap. - Why we must change the narrative from Supplier Diversity to Business Diversity - How John Rodgers beat Michael Jordan in one on one. - The playbook for corporate America to expand opportunities for black Americans. Rob Richardson is the founder of Disruption Now Media, a platform that connects black and brown entrepreneurs, artists, and leaders through interactive events, educational content, podcasts, virtual and in-person summits. Watch the episode here: Learn more about DisruptArt, a platform building a more equitable future through NFT's and our collective community
Big news today: Element, the startup founded by the team who created Matrix, just raised $30M of Series B funding in order to further accelerate Matrix development and improve Element, the flagship Matrix app. The round is led by our friends at Protocol Labs and Metaplanet, the fund established by Jaan Tallinn (co-founder of Skype and Kazaa). Both Protocol Labs and Metaplanet are spectacularly on board our decentralised communication quest, and you couldn't really ask for a better source of funding to help take Matrix to the next level. Thank you for believing in Matrix and leading Element's latest funding!
You can read all about it from the Element perspective over at the Element Blog, but suffice it to say that this is enormous news for the Matrix ecosystem as a whole. In addition to transforming the Element app, on the Matrix side this means that there is now concrete funding secured to:
So, exciting times ahead! We'd like to inordinately thank everyone who has supported Matrix over the years - especially our Patreon supporters, whose donations pay for all the matrix.org infrastructure while inspiring others to open their cheque books; the existing investors at Element (especially Notion and Automattic, who have come in again on this round); all the large scale Matrix deployments out there which are effectively turning Matrix into an industry (hello gematik!) - and everyone who has ever run a Matrix server, contributed code, used the spec to make their own Matrix-powered creation, or simply chatted on Matrix. Needless to say, Matrix wouldn't exist without you: the protocol and network would have fizzled out long ago were it not for all the people supporting it (the matrix.org server can now see over 35.5M addressible users on the network!) - and meanwhile the ever-increasing energy of the community and the core team combines to keep the protocol advancing forwards faster than ever. We will do everything we possibly can to succeed in creating the long-awaited secure communication layer of the open Web, and we look forward to large amounts of Element's new funding being directed directly into core Matrix development :) thanks for flying Matrix, Matthew, Amandine & the whole Matrix core team Empire Startups is hosting a pitch day for startups on September 10th.
Why they are hosting this event: At Empire, they know that diverse and complex problems are best solved by diverse teams. Their pitch day will feature diverse teams solving complex problems across lending, payments, personal finance, wealth, capital markets, infrastructure, insurtech, and banking. Reasons you should attend the event: - Hear from the brightest entrepreneurs in FinTech - Be the first to know about new technologies coming to market - Interactive Q&A. This isn’t your parents’ sleepy webinar - Insights from a panel of expert judges on the future of FinTech Reasons you should pitch at the event: - Exposure to the Largest FinTech Community in the World - Did we mention exposure? Winner pitches LIVE at the Empire FinTech Conference in front of 600 attendees - Curated 1:1 Meetings with Mentors and Judges - Fast tracked acceptance to Start Path Selection Day – Mastercard’s award winning startup engagement program Collaborate and Elevate member Anthony Reynolds has recently found huge success after raising $1M for his startup Refill. Reynolds was featured in an article written by Collaborate and Elevate in 2020 discussing how Refill dealt with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read about it here.
Read the press release from Refill, release on July 23, 2021 via PR Newswire: Refill announces it landed a $1 million investment from an angel investor. Refill, which provides mobile ordering and contactless payments for venues like arenas, bars, hotels, restaurants, resorts, and stadiums, features tech like scan your card, optimized ordering and insta-control with express lanes. Refill also recently announced its partnership with Colorado-based Hotel The Pad via Graze & Torreys restaurant as well as with bands Mt. Joy and Trampled By Turtles. "We're focused on growth and providing a quality user experience for our strategic partners and end-users. We've expanded in the Midwest and Virginia, adding large outdoor venues like Devils Back Bone Brewing Company. We are constantly innovating, including Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Analytics, finding ways to provide an enhanced user experience. That's what makes Refill so different," said Refill CEO Anthony Reynolds. For venues interested in signing up for Refill's tech, visit http://www.refillordering.com/. Media Contact Information Chad Hagan, (614) 427-3803 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – July 20, 2021 –Aromyx, a leading company in applying biotechnology and data
science to capture unique sensory data, today announced the close of an oversubscribed $10 Million Series A round of financing led by Rabo Food&Ag Innovation Fund and SOZO Ventures. Existing investors Ulu Ventures, Radicle Growth, Capital Energy and Merus Capital also participated in the round. How two people perceive smell and taste can be highly variable and is something we lack the ability to communicate in a precise and accurate way. Aromyx’s sensing technology is the first to digitize and quantify the information from the human receptors from the nose and tongue. By capturing the highly sensitive detection ability of these receptors, Aromyx delivers data that will change how companies design products, target demographics, forecast trends, and solve global issues around health and sustainability. Aromyx’s products and services are in use at multiple Fortune 500 companies, in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food & beverage and consumer packaged goods. The Series A funding will be used to help Aromyx increase capacity and automation capabilities, generate more data, improve AI algorithms, and expand its lab and software teams to meet this growing industry demand. “The key to unlocking the promise of biotechnology and data science’s role in driving product creation and reformulation is understanding the nuances. Aromyx’s technology allows consumer preferences to be understood from a geographic to individual level, and map perception across products,” said Richard O’Gorman, MD Rabo Food&Ag Innovation Fund. “Aromyx can have a dramatic impact on the speed at which sustainable and healthier food products reach the market. As food producers continuously reformulate products to become healthier and more sustainable, Aromyx’s technology can help determine which innovations will best meet consumer demand, allowing healthier, tasty, and successful products to reach the market faster. Cracking the code on measuring scent and taste perception has set Aromyx up to be able to understand consumer preferences around entirely new categories like alternative proteins, understand the emotional aspects of food and flavor, and recommend products consumers can’t taste or smell before purchase. We are blown away by the promise of their technology and look forward to helping fuel their continued growth. ”Aromyx has developed the largest database of human receptors, ingredients/chemicals and word descriptors in the world using a proprietary biotechnology platform. Aromyx tests consumer products and ingredients against these receptors to quantitatively determine how a person would perceive that product. Aromyx then applies this unique data to understand individual consumers’ perceptions and preferences and help customers design better products. Smell and taste are key factors in the buying decision for any consumer product, yet developers have struggled for centuries with subjective, highly variable data from human testing panels. As many industries move to online sales due to the pandemic and other market drivers, the need for brands to better communicate with and recommend products to their customers has increased dramatically. The drive for more sustainable ingredients and products has further challenged brands to improve on traditional product development cycles to meet consumer demand. These factors have created an explosion of demand for Aromyx’s testing services and actionable consumer insights. Aromyx tested over 100 products for customers in 2020 and is on track to more than triple that number in 2021 as capacity ramps up. “We are thrilled to have the world’s largest food and ag investment bank alongside a group of highly regarded venture firms on our team as we help brands make better products through the delivery of impactful consumer insights and move to offer entirely new services to our clients based on our unique data,” said Josh Silverman, CEO, Aromyx. “The pandemic did much to accelerate the demand for our technology—from shining a light on the limitations of tasting panels, to food and beverage companies and others looking for online recommendation engines to help hesitant consumers confidently buy something they can't taste or smell before purchase. The challenge now is to keep pace with demand, and that’s certainly a good problem to have.” About Aromyx Aromyx uses the biological receptors from the human nose and tongue to create digital representations of sensory data for multiple applications. Aromyx technology allows our customers to quantify, reproduce and understand human perception in an unprecedented way. Aromyx provides direct testing services, in addition to data analysis and software tools. By enabling clear, reproducible digital representations of smell and taste, Aromyx technology has the potential to be disruptive across a wide range of industries. Aromyx has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Learn more at http://www.aromyx.com. Contact: Danielle Dougan for Aromyx [email protected] (978) 430-9680 Former VP of Sales & Business Development at Med1 Healthcare Group, where Yaya was instrumental in building a solid company footprint in several African and Caribbean countries. Prior to Med1, he worked as VP of Product at Rally Health (formerly known as Audax Health). As a relatively early member of the product group, Yaya defined the strategy, definition, execution and optimization of the wellness platform for major payers. Yaya also held the Director of Product role at IAC Advertising, where he helped build, launch and roll out a revolutionary direct navigation service for ISPs in 10 countries. Prior to IAC, Yaya held product management roles at Jumptap and AOL with strong focus on mobile, search and advertising. He spent a few years with Orange North America as a Regional Sales and Carrier Relations Manager for the West Africa region. In this episode you will learn: - How Blockchain technology is the future fir medical record keeping - The opportunities for growth and investment in Africa - How AI is being used to promote better healthcare results Rob Richardson is the founder of Disruption Now Media, a platform that connects black and brown entrepreneurs, artists, and leaders through interactive events, educational content, podcasts, virtual and in-person summits. Watch the episode here: Learn more about DisruptArt, a platform building a more equitable future through NFT's and our collective community
7/7/2021 by Rebecka Nilsen Small businesses have been hit hard by the COVID-19 Pandemic. The pandemic has greatly accelerated the move from in person to the virtual world and brought on new challenges for smaller businesses and their sales. With the ever-growing sea of businesses emerging, it has never been more important to be able to effectively reach your target audience. This pandemic has established a surge in virtual ways which people and businesses connect with each other. It has further pushed us into the virtual world and it does not seem to be stopping anytime soon. Finding your way in these circumstances can be difficult, but to help here are 3 ways to help your business prosper in the virtual world. 1. Distinguishing Between Work and Leisure Time It is very challenging to find the balance between work and leisure time when you are working from home. It is very simple to go on your phone for a few minutes to read and respond to emails. However, those minutes can easily become an hour and suddenly you are in a bad and exhausting pattern of always working. Remember that for your business to prosper and do well you need to be well. To solve this problem, you can practice self-control with the help of various apps and time sensitive tools. These will not let you use a specific app on your phone or tablet for more than a designated amount of time. This can be a great tool to set boundaries for yourself and to actually be able to relax during your leisure time. 2. Lack of Creativity and Brainstorming It can be really difficult to be creative when you are sat by your computer almost all day. By only being able to speak to people through screens, the brainstorming and creative process of many businesses is not possible in the same way. Things are different right now and may continue to be so in the future, therefore, it is important to think past our old ways of creativity and find new sources of creativity and inspiration. To solve this challenge, you can reflect on what has worked in the past and try to incorporate it in the new sources of creativity. It may be hard to meet up with people inside of an office conference room, but if you need to discuss with people you could try to find a COVID safe setting such as meeting at a picnic table outside and keeping your distance. You might also find that there are entirely new sources of creativity waiting to be explored if you just think outside of the box. 3. The Digital Age of Marketing There are many struggles associated with small businesses; do not let marketing be one of them. Going digital can seem daunting with the thousands of advertisements, websites and platforms to choose from. Instead of overwhelming yourself with this it is wise to hire a professional service to solve these challenges. This may seem like yet another expense for the business, but services such as Collaborate and Elevate provide these services at a low cost, less than $5/month! They have adapted their pricing specifically for small businesses, entrepreneurs and industry professionals. In a time when so much seems out of our control, do not let your small business suffer. Be well, think outside of the box and utilize the resources that are out there. RareBreed Ventures is a pre-seed fund that invests in exceptional founders outside of large tech ecosystems, earlier than everyone else. Unlike other pre-seed funds, RareBreed takes a concentrated portfolio approach by writing checks of up to $250K as the first or one of the first investors. McKeever "Mac" Conwell II is the founder and managing partner of RareBreed Ventures. We speak with Mac about the path that led him from founder to Venture Captial. Mac is a former software engineer and a two-time founder. One of Mac's companies failed, the other went on to a successful exit. Rob Richardson is the founder of Disruption Now Media, a platform that connects black and brown entrepreneurs, artists, and leaders through interactive events, educational content, podcasts, virtual and in-person summits. Watch the episode here: Learn more about DisruptArt, a platform building a more equitable future through NFT's and our collective community
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Do you know a grassroots community leader or organization within Central Ohio who should be honored for their social justice work? 2021 Central Ohio's Social Justice Awards Luncheon Friday, September 24, 2021 11am - 1pm The Boathouse at Confluence Park 679 W. Spring St. Columbus, Ohio 43215 Check Out this Highlight Video from the 2020 Social Justice Awards Virtual Event Collaborate and Elevate is a growing platform with an engaged audience that focuses on building community. They provide opportunities ranging from online promotions, access to new jobs, business strategy feedback by connecting members to mentorship, new customers, and more! As they grow, they work with college students, single parents, or those who experienced the prison industrial complex and facing challenges getting back on their feet. This is a new digital platform that has emerged through the pandemic because they are able to help so many an affordable way. Here are 10 reasons to join CollaborateandElevate.com today: 1) Network
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Clarence Wooten is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur with a track record of success spanning back to 1999 when his debut Internet startup, ImageCafe.com, was acquired for $23 million by Network Solutions (Nasdaq: NSOL) just 7-months after it launched. Wooten has now started Revitalize Ventures Studio whose mission is to change the complexion of tech by building breakout software startups with black founders and diverse teams. Learn more https://revitalizeventures.com/the-story In this episode you will learn: 1. What Clarence advises to his younger self. 00:01:45 2. How you deal with different approaches: entrepreneur and not an investor for overall business. 00:03:10 3. The most important essential skill set for a founder to become scalable. 00:07:40 4. How self-awareness is so important in understanding a business. 00:09:53 5. Clarence's mission and success look like for Revitalize Studio five years from now. 00:11:25 6. How you balance being a black person and figuring out a way to move your company forward, knowing the systemic challenges. 00:14:01 7. What opportunities at this moment at this time and now, how should people of color, black and brown folks, in the tech world should they take at this moment, that’s maybe different from prior moments. 00:15:52 Rob Richardson is the founder of Disruption Now Media, a platform that connects black and brown entrepreneurs, artists, and leaders through interactive events, educational content, podcasts, virtual and in-person summits. Watch the episode here: Learn more about DisruptArt, a platform building a more equitable future through NFT's and our collective community
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