Sonic Watermelons

Original Episode Title: Cocktails and Crowdsourcing with the Pinball Wizard Mike Maven-5/24/16 *** Original Episode Date: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016 *** Name of Guest(s): Mike Maven, founder, Shelter Arcade Bar, Providence, RI. *** Original Episode Summary: You have this great idea for a business so you do what every self-respecting millennial would do: put together a little video, post it on Kickstarter or Indiegogo, then sit back and wait for the money to roll in. Well, that's not exactly how it works. Our guest on Sonic Watermelons tonight is Mike Maven and he has successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign to bring you the Shelter Arcade Bar, opening soon in Olneyville. Mike will give us the inside scoop on crowd-sourced funding and what it takes to open a business in Providence. And he just happens to be half of the Providence-based duo The Silent Shoals so, as always, there will be music. Shelterarcadebar.com *** Audio from the podcast also comes from... PVDFest, 2016, Audio recorded by J