{"id":640702,"date":"2013-01-30T18:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T23:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=68342"},"modified":"2013-01-30T18:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T23:59:34","slug":"caine-monroy-of-caines-arcade-takes-the-tedx-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640702","title":{"rendered":"Caine Monroy of Caine&rsquo;s Arcade takes the TEDx stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='586' height='360' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gcFip50h7fI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just a beautiful story: a 9-year-old creates a homemade arcade out of cardboard and invites the world to come play with him. Filmmaker Nirvan Mullick was thoroughly transfixed when he stumbled upon young entrepreneur\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cainesarcade.com\/\">Caine Monroy\u2019s arcade<\/a>, located in his father\u2019s auto parts store, and made a short documentary about it. Mullick\u2019s initial goal was to raise a $25,000 scholarship fund for Monroy.<\/p>\n<p>Caine is now 10 and, in November, appeared at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/tedx\/events\/2600\">TEDxYouth@SantaMonica<\/a> alongside Mullick. There Mullick revealed that his doc, <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/40000072\" ><em>Caine&#8217;s Arcade<\/em><\/a>, got a million views and raised $60K on the <em>very first day<\/em> it was posted. In the Q&amp;A above, the pair share how they decided to help other kids with the vast sums they were receiving by launching the Imagination Foundation. Their idea is to find, foster and fund creative entrepreneurship in kids through initiatives like the Cardboard Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>In an amazing moment in the video above, Monroy shares the five rules he\u2019s learned from his journey. Number 2: &#8220;Do a business that is fun.&#8221; And Number 5: &#8220;Use recycled stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/68342\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/68342\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=68342&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/0aQlRkdKjXI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s just a beautiful story: a 9-year-old creates a homemade arcade out of cardboard and invites the world to come play with him. Filmmaker Nirvan Mullick was thoroughly transfixed when he stumbled upon young entrepreneur\u00a0Caine Monroy\u2019s arcade, located in his father\u2019s auto parts store, and made a short documentary about it. Mullick\u2019s initial goal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}