Etip.me
There are a couple of college students from South Texas (McAllen, Texas) who started a support/reward application for artists to receive direct support from fans. We have conducted an interview with them: What inspires you all to start the support/reward application for artists? The original inspiration for starting etip.me came from college friends of ours who were artists and musicians. For example, one of our friends was in a local punk band and he was always talking about how his band never made any money even though most of the gigs the band played were always packed with people. They had a lot of fans but no income. They couldn't sell any records because they were not with any label and the money the club owners gave them just was not enough for all the band members after expenses, if they got paid at all. So we started to think of a way to introduce an alternative revenue source for our friends in bands and other artists. The solution we came up with was...