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FundRazr: $25 Million Raised For 37,000 Crowdfunding Campaigns Since 2010

Charles Luzar — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:36:39 +0000

Today FundRazr has announced that they’ve helped 37,000 project creators raise over $25 million since launching their crowdfunding platform in July of 2010. From the release… Announced today, FundRazr has accumulated a list of our 25 Most Notable Campaigns in celebration of our $25 Million raised milestone this week. Among them is the DC Entertainment... Read More

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BrickPi Is A Raspberry Pi Brain For Your LEGO Cyborgs

Charles Luzar — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:29:28 +0000

BrickPi has a hugely successsful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The goal? To crowdfund Raspberry Pi-based brains that work with off-the-shelf LEGO® Mindstorms hardware to create your very own robots. The Raspberry Pi is a small, cheap ($25) computer that has a footprint roughly similar to that of a credit card. The open and hackable nature... Read More

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Move Over Google Glass: meta 1 Turns Augmented Reality To 11

Charles Luzar — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:21:41 +0000

We’ve written numerous times about the Oculus Rift, a product by Oculus VR that gives video gamers a full virtual reality experience. Now a product called the meta 1 aims to bring virtual reality to our everyday world, and it’s crowdfunding now on Kickstarter. As with many hardware products on crowdfunding sites, this VR headset... Read More

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Nintendo Launches Crowdfunding Parody Site For “Game & Wario”

Charles Luzar — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:24:46 +0000

Nintendo and Warioware Inc. have launched a crowdfunding parody site called Crowdfarter as a promotional stunt for it’s upcoming Wii U game Game & Wario. No, people don’t contribute money like they would for a campaign on a traditional crowdfunding site. In this case users can unlock rewards by sharing the page socially. By “donating” your social media... Read More

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Stompy Bot Launches Heavy Gear Assault Kickstarter Campaign

Capsule Computers — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:06:23 +0000

Stompy Bot Productions (in partnership with Mektek Studios) announced their Kickstarter campaign for Heavy Gear Assault today, an upcoming online PC mech-themed shooter built around Unreal Engine 4 technology. Rumors of development first began in February, and between then and now there hasn’t been a great deal of news regarding the title. My suspicion is that they’ve been biding their time, crafting something special. The developers opted... Read More

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Melissa Joan Hart says Kickstarter failure ‘started out wrong’

LA Times — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:03:19 +0000

Not every Kickstarter film-funding effort ends in multimillion-dollar success, a la actor-writer-director Zach Braff’s recent campaign or that achieved by the cast and creators of the canceled CW show “Veronica Mars.” Just ask actress Melissa Joan Hart, who failed in her efforts to raise $2 million for a romantic comedy in which she was hoping to star. Turns out fans of... Read More

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Crowdfunding Journalism: A New Financing Model for Freelancers?

PBS MediaShift — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:30 +0000

Toronto-based freelance reporter Naheed Mustafa always paid her own way when she reported from abroad. But that meant that about 70 percent to 80 percent of what she earned went straight toward paying for the costs of traveling. Most news organizations don’t reimburse freelancers for travel costs, and the ones that do don’t offer a lot. Mustafa... Read More

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The ‘Friday Night Lights’ Movie May Be Latest Project to Receive Crowdfunding

Technology Tell — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:57:43 +0000

Hoo boy. This crowdfunding fad is really getting out of control. Sure, it gave everybody the “Veronica Mars” movie they always wanted but it has also crushed the meager dreams of Melissa Joan Hart, emboldened Zach Braff to unleash even more of his curdled whimsy on the world and encouraged every single producer in Hollywood to turn their cancelled TV... Read More

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3 Things the Crowd Wants to See Before Investing

EntreRev — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:51:56 +0000

Crowdfunding is coming. In fact, for many businesses crowdfunding is already here. There are many equity and revenue share crowdfunding platforms that are already funding small businesses around the country, but what we have seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg. According to a recent Forbes.com article there are nearly 500,000 new businesses started... Read More

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UPDATED: Soylent Launches Crowdfunding Campaign On Crowdhoster

Charles Luzar — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:47:33 +0000

Rob Rhinehart and his team have settled on Crowdhoster as the platform of choice for their crowdfunding campaign for Soylent. We wrote about Soylent in the past, a meal replacement drink that garnered both praise and criticism in the press. Click here to see the campaign Crowdhoster is supported by Y Combinator graduate Crowdtilt, who... Read More

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