Elton Rivas

Around 70 "creators" have signed up to compete in next month’s much shorter Jacksonville One Spark Festival.The projects will compete for eyes, investment…

We discuss the week's biggest news stories with our roundtable of local journalists: Fred Matthews, Examiner blogger; Larry Hannan, Florida Times-Union…

The One Spark crowdfunding festival has had a management shakeup. Co-founder and CEO Elton Rivas has resigned, he announced in an email Monday. His…

Big changes are planned for the 2016 One Spark crowdfunding festival. Organizers say the event will return to its roots by scaling back the number of…

Note: This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at MOCA Jacksonville the night of April 8, 2015. As crowds descend on downtown for the first…

One Spark co-founder and CEO Elton Rivas joins us to discuss what's new for the upcoming 2015 crowdfunding festival.We also speak with Jacksonville real…

The creators of One Spark are headed back to Jacksonville after wrapping up a successful event in Berlin. One Spark START: Berlin, the very first…

An independent study released this week shows a significant gap in the funds distributed by One Spark during their 2014 festival and the amounts creators…

The One Spark festival, which began in 2013 in Jacksonville, will expand to Berlin, Germany in the fall of this year organizers announced Thursday…

People involved in downtown’s startup economy often talk about building an ecosystem.Elton Rivas, who’s a part of many of downtown Jacksonville’s startup…