May 18, 2013 @ 1:15 pm By CFI Correspondent  |  

In this weeks edition of Crowdfunding Mailbox we have a interesting mix; Guns, Booze, Princesses and a Robbery film.   Somehow they all go together.  From the serious to the sincere, the creative to audacious, everyone at Crowdfund Insider admires what you do.  Please keep your crowdfunding submissions coming.  We do try and look at… Read More

Read more in: Featured Headlines, Offerings  |  Tagged alcohol, crowned the web series, film, fund safe guns, glen flagler whisky, guns, indiegogo, kickstarter, shelby and the bread factory

May 18, 2013 @ 11:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

“I originally got the idea due to my interest in gardening. But when my son was born, I wanted to monitor the temperature and humidity in his bedroom overnight for health reasons, and I was surprised to find no low-cost, simple iPhone solution existed.”Marc Nicholas, creator of Motes Marc Nicholas is CTO of Wimoto and created Motes,… Read More

Read more in: Offerings  |  Tagged android, hardware, indiegogo, iOS, marc nicholas, motes, sensors, tech, wimoto

May 18, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

SitePoint is an online media company specializing in news geared toward software developers and other flavors of geek. As is somewhat common in these circles, they afford their staff a few days on occasion to work on personal projects on company time. Why would a company do this? So their employees are empowered to create… Read More

Read more in: Offerings  |  Tagged alex walker, css, launchable, programming, sitepoint, tech, uk

May 18, 2013 @ 10:52 am By Fort Mill Times  |  

NEW YORK – Keen Home Inc., developer of home automation products and services, has announced that it is in pursuit of raising capital to complete the development of its Keen Vent, a wirelessly networked home air vent system. The company recently launched an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign on the heels of being featured as one of the… Read More

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May 18, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Bennington Banner  |  

ARLINGTON — Students at Arlington Memorial Middle School/High School have kickstarted a campaign to raise funds for the school’s music arts programs. The campaign on the online fundraising platform Kickstarter was launched earlier this week and is already a third of the way toward its goal. The funds will be used to purchase additional workstations… Read More

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May 17, 2013 @ 5:59 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Gawker Media has raised some eyebrows with a crowdfunding campaign they launched this afternoon on Indiegogo. The campaign is in an effort to secure the rights to a video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford allegedly smoking crack. Can’t make this up. For those who aren’t familiar, Rob Ford is a highly controversial figure who has… Read More

Read more in: Featured Headlines, Offerings  |  Tagged canada, gawker media, indiegogo, john cook, rob ford, scandal, toronto, toronto sun

May 17, 2013 @ 12:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s the story that won’t die. Worldview Entertainment has stepped into the frey with Zach Braff’s upcoming release Wish I Was Here. The movie, a spiritual successor to Braff’s hit Garden State, is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. It sits at $2.6 million pledged with a week left on the clock. Worldview Entertainment will provide gap financing, bringing… Read More

Read more in: Offerings, Strategy  |  Tagged film, kickstarter, movies, wish i was here, worldview entertainment, zach braff

May 17, 2013 @ 10:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Pebble has joined Ouya in raising $15 million in venture capital after a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign. In Pebble’s case, the round was led by Charles River Ventures and partner George Zachary. Zachary said this was the largest Series A he has ever participated in. Oh, the irony. Pebble took to Kickstarter after being rejected by… Read More

Read more in: Offerings  |  Tagged charles river ventures, kickstarter, pebble, vc, venture capital

May 17, 2013 @ 1:00 am By CFI Correspondent  |  

BankToTheFuture, the crowdfunding platform that allows people to invest in start-ups and mature businesses, is providing an investment platform for Fabfob, the latest venture by Wowcher founder, Nick Brummitt, who has chosen cowdfunding over traditional venture capital funding. “He says it how it is, how it has been and how it will be in the… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, Global, Offerings  |  Tagged banktothefuture, fabfob, uk

May 16, 2013 @ 9:49 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Scottish Community Group DD8 Music has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a memorial to longtime AC/DC frontman Bon Scott in his hometown of Kirriemuir, and the project just received the blessing from the band. At the 2013 Bonfest in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the funding campaign for the Bon Scott statue to be erected in Bon’s hometown… Read More

Read more in: Offerings  |  Tagged ac/dc, bon scott, kickstarter, kirriemuir, music, scotland, tribute

May 16, 2013 @ 4:02 pm By CFI Correspondent  |  

That’s right.  Crowdfunding $660,000,000 on Indiegogo to purchase the  Tribune Company which includes storied newspapers like the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times.  If nothing else, the effort is certainly a bold and audacious move on the part of the organizers as they attempt to “meet our lofty fundraising goal”. The campaign has been initiated by… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, Featured Headlines, General News, Offerings  |  Tagged agit-prop communications, indiegogo, newspapers, the other 98%, the tribune company

May 16, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

An Australian researcher has taken to crowdfunding site Pozible to accept donations in an effort to create a “cultural cache,” a virtual repository of first-hand accounts and experiences directly from gamers. The PlayCache will be an evolving online archive to record, analyse and report on the digital game play habits of Australian gamers: from YouTube… Read More

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May 16, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The purveyors of the ScreenJunkies YouTube channel have launched a campaign on Indiegogo to crowdfund a full-page advertisement aimed at telling celebrities like Zach Braff to keep their “vanity projects” off of crowdfunding web sites like Kickstarter. From the campaign page… Our “Don’t Back Zach” campaign was launched in response to the new wave of… Read More

Read more in: Offerings  |  Tagged celebrities, indiegogo, kickstarter, melissa joan hart, screen junkies, zach braff

May 16, 2013 @ 9:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This is why I love crowdfunding. We love maple syrup. We put it on everything. With pancakes, in our coffee, on our pizza. We put some in our hair when we’ve had a rough week. If you’ve had the chance to taste real maple syrup you know exactly what we are talking about. But that wasn’t enough… Read More

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May 16, 2013 @ 8:13 am By CFI Correspondent  |  

Planet Money, a joint project of NPR and This American Life, has trail-blazed a new path for NPR.  They have crowdfunded themselves on Kickstarter.  The initial campaign commenced on April 30th and ended on May 15th.  The goal was an admirable $50,000 target.  The finally tally far exceeded that – amounting to $590,807.00.  Over 20,000… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, Offerings, Strategy  |  Tagged charity, kickstarter, npr, planet money, t shirts, the american life