Nerd Stalker

When creator pitch night meets Kickstarter, that is a crowdfunding festival. One Spark is the world's only crowdfunding festival started in Jacksonville, Florida and now coming to Berlin, Germany. We speak with Elton Rivas of One Spark as he discusses how he and his two other co-founders created One Spark and how the Berlin event coming up on September 12 and 13 is organized.

Every city, every community has a mover and shaker. Elton Rivas  of KYN is Jacksonville's mover and shaker. With all that is happening in San Francisco, we normally don't highlight accelerators in Jacksonville, Florida. But, Mr. Rivas has boiled down the three reasons that startups should consider a business accelerator into basic truisms that apply anywhere in the world. A business accelerator sees the startup through its child, adolescence and adult stages. Listen or watch to Mr. Rivas's three reasons as he goes in depth into accelerator programs.