To Your Taste!, an
innovative, unique wine education product, is taking an equally unique
and
innovative approach to financing its production, through a Fundable.com
campaign. “Over the next 99 days, we’re going to be running our Fundable
campaign to raise the money we need to pay for our first production run
of To
Your Taste!,” says Heidi McLain, founder of To Your Taste For Wine LLC.
“Crowdfunding sites like Fundable have made it possible for
entrepreneurs,
artists, charitable groups and others to leverage social media to
finance their
projects when other means of financing are either not possible or
available,”
says McLain.
On April 5, 2012,
President Obama signed into law the United States of America Jumpstart
Our
Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which seeks to increase American job
creation and economic growth
by improving access to the public capital markets for emerging growth
companies. Since the passage of the JOBS Act, crowdfunding of startup
companies
has become a very hot topic. Fundable.com was created specifically for
startups
looking to find early-stage capital before they are ready for
professional
outside capital.
McLain worked for seven years on the floor of a large wine
store, where she realized that there is a great need for wine consumers,
especially wine novices, to be able to understand wine ratings, wine
reviews,
and wines gone bad. So, she created To Your Taste! “I call it
‘confidence-in-a-box’ for wine consumers,” says McLain.
About To
Your Taste! Learn how to taste, evaluate and review wines by
playing wine-tasting games. TYT features wine faults aromas so that you
can
learn how to detect a flawed or defective bottle of wine. To Your Taste
For
Wine LLC is located in Laurel, Maryland. Heidi McLain, founder and
owner, can
be reached at Heidi@ToYourTaste.com. For more information, visit the
company
Web site at www.ToYourTaste.com.
About Fundable Launched by a team of
successful entrepreneurs experienced in connecting businesses with
investors,
Fundable (http://fundable.com) is a new
platform that introduces crowdfunding for serious startups. The first
company
to launch to support the JOBS Act, Fundable's platform democratizes
funding,
providing two ways for companies to thank backers: rewards and company
equity. With
offices in Columbus, Ohio and Santa Monica, California, Fundable is
backed by
early-stage incubator Virtucon Ventures.
