Entry 1 - Preparation is in full swing
Behold our blog - here we will be keeping you updated about where we are, what we're doing, and what's coming next!
Our website is now complete - www.mongolmusketeers.com - and our flight to Dublin is confirmed for June 6! Please have a look at the site and spread the word.
Next comes Sponsors & Visas. Stay tuned for more news!
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty; never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures." - Alexandre Dumas
Mission: To fund research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing, or reversing Alzheimer’s disease. More Info: Cure Alzheimer’s Fund was founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Morby, Jacqui Morby, Henry McCance, and Phyllis Rappaport as a way to fund Alzheimer's disease research. Following principles of venture philanthropy, the organization attempts to identify high-risk, high-reward studies that require seed money in order to gather the data needed to qualify for a large grant, such as one from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The founders are still involved in managing the fund, and continue to cover all of its operating costs. They employ a small staff to run the Wellesley Hills office. As of the end of 2013, Cure Alzheimer's Fund had funded 77 projects and distributed a total of approximately $22.8 million in grants.
Omnilid Ltd aims to bring to life an innovative concept for the disposable take away drinks lid, whose main design and functionality has remained largely unchanged since the 1960's. The idea builds on the familiar lid design in order to address concerns about hygiene, slow delivery of drinks and the waste caused by associated packaging of items such as sachets for tea, coffee, hot chocolate, sugar and stirrers. The new design includes use of the lid’s inner side to hold content and incorporates a stirrer; the overall design creates a more hygienic, convenient and smarter lid that opens the potential for new content, on-lid marketing, new markets and products. Omnilid is ideal for packaging loose-leaf tea, hot chocolate, coffee and many other contents up to 6.5 grams.
Matcha is taking the UK and the world by storm. As people are looking for a healthier energy source to accommodate their busy lifestyles - they have now found their match(a)! As you've probably heard, matcha is a super drink with 137 times more antioxidants than a regular cup of green tea and gives a more sustained caffeine release than coffee. All this goodness is not the product of some fancy laboratory experiment. Matcha is simply the whole tea leaf grounded, rather than a weak watery infusion. We want to make matcha mainstream and sold alongside your other regular on the go hot drinks ...without the coffee jitters. With our clean and exciting on the go packaging we wanted to launch a drinks brand that reflected our ethos of environmentally friendly, hygienic and innovative products. Matcha and its 800 years of goodness mastered and enjoyed by Japanese Buddhists is a perfect starting point. ? At Am?ru we care about environment - which is why we are partnering with Omnilid Ltd for on-the-go drinks. Omnilid is made from recycled material which works within the sustainable cycle. Omnilid aims at facilitating everyone's life from retailer to us consumers. In the future we are looking to introduce other flavours and hot drinks.
HaikuJAM is a social writing app where people create poems and short stories together. Users can choose to collaborate either with strangers around the world or with friends in "circles". A user writes a few words on any topic of their choice. Within a few seconds, they are matched with two other people who contribute their own lines. The result is the a micro-story suck as this: "He tried to build his / defenses, and she smirked / at his attempts." With a deeply engaged creative community forming around HaikuJAM, brands such as Tinder, Bloomsbury Publishing, Good Knight, Ginger Hotels and others are now partnering with the platform to crowdsource stories and digital content. HaikuJAM collaborations reach more than 2 million people weekly and so the platform provides brands with significant organic reach through user-generated creative content.
