http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/283311

Hello everyone!

     I've been gone for a while but I continued to drop in on the BSFS from time to time. I've been away building on my patent-pending new toy-line Key Knows.

Key Knows are friendship bracelets that kids can personalize with regular office labels and hide under the chambers, which they can reveal by using the interchangeable key to open their corresponding chambers. I along with my wife, close family and friends have funded all the 3D CADs and the engineering for the functionality and now we are nearing production towards manufacturing. We can not cover the manufacturing alone, that is why I am asking for your help.

We took our idea to a company for some help to get Key knows into the market but that company tried to buy our idea before we even got our company started. We also had a situation where an investor made an attempt to buy a large portion of equity in our start-up. We respectfully declined on both offers because we would like to maintain creative control of what we created, in order to create job opportunities in our communities where we are losing jobs and to reach a point where we can sponsor some of the talent here on the BSFS. Here is the link to Indiegogo where you can help :

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/283311

Having just a few people support with large funds is not only how we want this 45 day campaign to go. We would prefer to have a lot of people with smaller funds to contribute. Looking at the amount of members on here if we can just get half to help out we can actually be successful in this campaign to get the first shipment of Key knows into the very lucrative toy market with a viable product. You will see in the video my wife Chloris of 20 years and our long time friend Theofin as they introduce our venture towards entrepreneurship. I'm not just asking for your support without merit because I've supported other members of the BSFS and I've donated to the site whenever I could with whatever I was able to donate. That is me with books I bought from members of this site to show my support.

I've also made attempts to collaborate with other members whenever possible.I've also had the opportunity to meet other BSFS members. That's me with Wendy Raven McNair at the First Annual Atlanta Black Book Expo.

It was good to get some information here about Yla Eason, creator of Sun-man from Olmec toys. The only sad thing about this black toy company is that it's past-tense and has been gone for decades. I'm hoping with the help of the BSFS I can follow behind them into the toy market and have longevity, which will enable me to continue to support other members here on a much grander scale. I would love to get a film from here off the ground or help another member here with similar aspirations towards entrepreneurship similar to what I am doing now. Check out the perks and with your contributions you can be a part of history when you receive the first shipments of the Key Knows toy-line. We need as much support that we can get also with emails, tweeting and Facebook posts to get friends and family members that would be interested in helping us out. Remember the more people we get the smaller the contributions can be and we can still make this campaign a successful one.

I don't think I'm asking for much in comparison to the potential of the BSFS. It would be good to get the support here initially to get algorithms on the Indiegogo campaign in order to get the page featured so that more people can see it. I know that company that attempted to buy us out is waiting and believes that we can't do it without them. With your help I would love to prove them wrong. Here is the link again : 

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/283311

I'm sending out a pebble to create ripples that I hope will turn into waves of glory for us all. Remember It would be good if we get a lot of people with small contributions rather than few people with large contributions. In closing, please anyone that wants to contact me during and about this 45 day campaign, please do. I will be checking my inbox on a consistent basis in order to respond to any questions and/or concerns that you may have. Also if there are any investors that may be interested or people who may want to take part in helping us build this company can contact me about that too. I have no problems with phone conversations (754-244-6028). Just let me know when you inbox me. I am also available for face-to-face conversations if you are down here in the Miami/Hollywood FL. area. I thank you all for your time and I send another thanks in advance for any support that you can give. The journey continues.

Sincerely,

Steve Hyppolite