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Help me start my business& save my house

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You can help me live my life long dream to be a self-employed Maker, pay some bills to get my small business up and running, and still keep my house!


I have a dream of making things, beautiful things, which others will appreciate and their friends will covet., things that will help people passionate about what they love and collect to show off and display those things in the best possible manner. I also want to continue to make props and accessories for costumers and collectors. I want to do this while making enough to supplement my wife's income and make it possible for us to pay our bills and keep our house while allowing us to put aside money for my son's education as my parents never did. I had to drop out of college because my parents did not save for my college education and the money just wasn't there. I did not qualify for grants or loans so that was that. I have worked all kinds of jobs over the years to make ends meet, and I have always struggled for the most part. In 2004 I finally had a REALLY great job and finally all was looking up, but the economy took its downward turn and in 2006 I got laid off with my wife five months pregnant and we have struggled ever since. I have worked retail, I tried other things, but working for someone else it is nigh impossible to get ahead without that simple piece of paper, the college diploma. Now I have an idea, a product that people want, and it can make us a living. Maybe even allow my wife to quit her job someday.

This dream is almost within my reach, but I need YOUR help. PLEASE consider contributing, even a $1, or $5, as every bit helps. If you cannot, PLEASE continue to share, but make sure you let people know WHY you are contributing, because...well... THIS is my story. Please help if you can.


I am starting a new company called Used Future Workshop™ and I will be producing, to start off with, the first genuinely new way for costumers and collectors to display their helmets, masks, and cowls, in a very long time, my Ultimate "Floating" Display Stands™. I will have other tabletop and wall mounted displays in the future for assorted props, weapons, prop weapons, models, statues and action figures, and much more. I will also be making props, blasters, various "greeblies" (especially hard-to-find ones), as well as 3-D printing and custom CNC services. I will eventually be adding laser cut decals and other items, but it will all start with these helmets stands.






Right now I am in the process of getting my business ready for, well, business. I have an investor who will be providing me with a substantial investment which will be most of what I need for my business, however his funds will not be available until sometime in late September as he is in the process of liquidating assets to make funds available. In the meantime I have costs associated with setting up this company I simply do not have funds to take care of. Right now we are relying solely on my wife's job to take care of all of our bills, food, fuel, and our seven-year-old son. There's only so many cans of SpaghettiOs a kid will (or should have to) eat...

And this is where you come in…
Without some quick funding, with our mortgage, my car dying, and various other things, on top of trying to take care of getting this business started, we may not make it to September, and then the investment I will be receiving may well end up being for naught.
Specifically, I have to pay $4000+ to my patent and trademark attorneys, get my website up, and take care of a few other assorted things for setting up my business in addition to regular household bills.

I'm really desperate here. As a member of a major costuming charity organization I have helped raise tens of thousands dollars for others but I have never asked for anything for myself before. I have always worked hard for everything I received . Honestly I'm kind of embarrassed to have to do this but I'm hoping I've built up some good karma because this is my shot to change my life and the life of my family for the better. If I can make this work I will never have to work for anyone else again, and if all goes well I may even be able to employ others in future, which is part of my dream, but to get myself there I need to make it through the summer. For that, I need YOUR help!

So please, if you have it in you to believe in someone who has a unique and creative vision, and in the process you might be able to get some really cool stuff, please contribute . Help me make my dreams come true!

https://www.facebook.com/UsedFutureWorkshop

UsedFutureWorkshop.com coming soon (with your help)!

Any and all rewards will be honored as long as I reach at least 60% of my goal. All International and some domestic shipping for stands will be extra (sorry) except where specified in the rewards. All Used Future Workshop™ Items will be available in Q4. Stands will be in Q1 of 2015. Gen1 Stands will initially come in Basic, Standard, and Custom.

Basic stands will have no logo and a choice of paint color from available colors (TBD)

Standard Stands  will have your choice of Logo from my Logo Library, Choice of Paint from available colors, and choice of brushed aluminum or brass edging.

Custom Stands will have choice of Base Shape, logo, including custom created logos, and personaliztion. Colors can be matched to a certain degree. Choice of Aluminum or Brass edging.

Organizer

Jonathan Evilboy Wolk
Organizer
Ashburn, VA

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