May 22, 2013 @ 9:51 pm By Version One Ventures  |  

Generally speaking, I’m a huge fan of crowdfunding. I’m an investor in one of the major platforms, Indiegogo. Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are helping fill the financing void for startups that struggle to find traditional financing. For example, I recently wrote about crowdfunding being a viable option for hardware startups who notoriously have a tough time attracting funding… Read More

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May 22, 2013 @ 9:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Last year a student at Chardon High School in Ohio shot and killed three classmates and wounded three others, leaving one permanently paralyzed. Fast forward to today and the city of Chardon is again in shock, this time due to the dispersement of over $900,000 allegedly raised by the United Way of Greater Cleveland and… Read More

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May 22, 2013 @ 7:49 am By Film School Rejects  |  

Recently, the act of donating to or promoting a Kickstarter campaign has become a highly politicized and moralized one for movie fans, an act brimming with questions, crises, and conundrums about systemic economic disadvantages normalized by dominant industries of filmmaking. Suspicion has been directed in droves toward legitimate-seeming yet vastly-supported projects like the studio-release Veronica Mars movie or Zach Braff’s directorial… Read More

Read more in: Opinion  |  Tagged anti, film, kickstarter, movies, rob thomas, veronica mars, wish i was here, zach braff

May 18, 2013 @ 10:31 am By The Dallas Observer  |  

Financing a brewery, either in part or whole, through crowd funding campaigns like Kickstarter is a fascinating phenomenon. Old-fashioned lengthy business plans with amortization charts, projections and risk assessments are buried at the bottom of the recycling bin, or better yet, under a box of hipster-cut, 100-percent organic cotton T-shirts that have been ordered for… Read More

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May 18, 2013 @ 6:17 am By Inc.  |  

There are two completely different ways of looking at crowdfunding. It is either a) the best thing to happen to start-ups since Red Bull; or b) while sometimes useful, it’s no serious substitute for other sources of money, including family & friends. Even bootstrapping. This may not endear me to some of my friends, but… Read More

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May 16, 2013 @ 8:54 am By Forbes  |  

With the success of the Veronica Mars and Garden State-sequel Kickstarter campaigns, it appears that the crowdfunding business model has made its way to mainstream Hollywood. While crowdfunding certainly has advantages, including giving filmmakers more creative control over their projects, this business model is open to potential claims of fraud, misappropriation, conversion and embezzlement, which lead to the risk… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, Opinion  |  Tagged film, kickstarter, lawsuit, movies, tips

May 16, 2013 @ 7:48 am By Sang Lee  |  

Sang Lee of Return On Change outlines four simple reasons why crowdfunding works in today’s economic climate.

Read more in: Featured Headlines, Opinion  |  Tagged crowdinvesting, equity, return on change, sang lee

May 15, 2013 @ 9:06 am By LatinosPost  |  

While many different individuals and developers are turning to Kickstarter and crowd funding to finance video games, some people within the industry are not keen to join the fad. One such person is Sid Meier, the influential designer of the Civilization series and who currently works for 2K subsidiary Firaxis Games. Meier recently spoke out… Read More

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May 13, 2013 @ 3:34 pm By NASDAQ  |  

Last week, Donald Trump announced - with characteristic flair - his involvement with a crowdfunding startup named FundAnything. The Donald’s presence would be something of an embarrassment for many companies, but then the tech sector has never been above a little shameless self-promotion. In fact, it’s become something of a virtue in this age of “likes” and… Read More

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May 13, 2013 @ 3:28 pm By RealBusiness.co.uk  |  

Donald Trump backing crowdfunding is about as appropriate as Attila the Hun inviting us to tea. I’ve never had a bad word to say about crowdfunding - until now. Now I am rendered speechless by perhaps the biggest backhanded compliment ever. Crowdfunding is about the crowd. The clue is in the name. It’s funding for the crowd… Read More

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May 13, 2013 @ 9:21 am By Metro.co.uk  |  

Calls for ‘crowdfunding’ to be regulated could be heard as early as next April when new rights for consumers come in to play. But with so many internet platforms popping up, the catch-all term can be confusing. It is used to describe a large group of people all contributing cash towards anything from charitable causes or… Read More

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May 13, 2013 @ 9:11 am By Nintendo Life  |  

Kickstarter, as regular readers of Nintendo Life have no doubt noticed, is becoming increasingly visible in the gaming media. It’s not just here that the crowdfunding site is gaining a lot of web space, as increasing numbers of fundraisers begin to emerge, gain significant support and, of interest to us here, often add 3DS or… Read More

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May 13, 2013 @ 7:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ouya raised over $8 million on Kickstarter last year followed by a $15 million round led by Kleiner Perkins, becoming a darling of the gaming media as an example of crowdfunding’s power to democratize a gaming industry long dominated by large publishers and manufacturers. Now that the Ouya has started to ship it has been… Read More

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May 12, 2013 @ 1:25 pm By CFI Correspondent  |  

Recently there have been a lot of headlines and discussions regarding celebrities or the affluent utilizing crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter.  High profile film crowfunding for a Veronica Mars film or the project by Zach Braff have engendered a healthy discussion about who crowdfunding is for and the “fairness” of the 1% taking advantage of this… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, Featured Headlines, Offerings, Opinion  |  Tagged film, kickstarter, opinion, veronica mars, zach braff

May 10, 2013 @ 9:02 am By Turnstyle  |  

There has been a lot, and I mean a LOT of digital ink spilled on the issue of “who Kickstarter is for” in the past few weeks. Ever since actor-director Zack Braff turned to the crowdfunding site looking to fund his followup to the indie hit Garden State. The essential complaint: that Kickstarter was created with the specific… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, Opinion  |  Tagged kickstarter, rob thomas, zach braff