UPDATED: Soylent Crowdfunding Campaign On Crowdhoster Fully Funded

May 20, 2013 @ 9:47 pm By Charles Luzar |

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

VIDEO: Young Man Crowdfunding Medical Bills After Miata Mishap

May 1, 2013 @ 8:52 am By Charles Luzar |

The young man in the video above is Shawn Prince, a 23 year old noob mechanic that is taking on one of the great engine swaps of all time. If you want a fun car on a budget, a great place to start is a Mazda Miata with a small block Chevrolet engine. As you… Read More

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Crowdtilt Crowdfunds Boat Damaged in Boston Bombing Standoff

April 21, 2013 @ 5:29 pm By CFI Correspondent |

Soon after the now infamous boat was shot up by authorities as they subdued the second Boston Marathon Bomber, the internet rallyed to help out the owner of the boat. As we all know now, the boat owner had stepped out back and noticed something amiss in his boar on a trailer in his back… Read More

Crowdfunding Support Alone Won’t Save Clayton Toy Store

April 20, 2013 @ 9:06 am By Patch |

Despite customer efforts that kept LagoonaMagoo Toys from defaulting on a bank loan last month, owners need to increase sales to stay in business long term. Last month community support prevented two popular St. Louis area toy stores from closingshop as originally planned–but the company still has challenges ahead, according to a recent KMOX report. Happy… Read More

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Andreesen Horowitz Funds Crowdtilt with $12 Million

April 18, 2013 @ 4:00 pm By CFI Correspondent |

Crowdtilt, a simple-to-use platform to pool money online, has announced the close of their $12 million Series A funding. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sean Parker, SV Angel, DCM, as well as CrunchFund, Alexis Ohanian, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant, Sam Altman, Matt Mullenweg, Dave Morin and Justin Kan. Jeff… Read More

Crowdtilt Pretends to be Obama with Crowdfund the Debt Campaign. Drives Site Traffic

April 9, 2013 @ 2:15 pm By CFI Correspondent |

As part of an April Fools joke, crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt ran a crowdfunding campaign to “Crowdfund The Debt” as a method to help pay off the exploding national debt. The fake crowdfunding campaign picked up mentions in TechCrunch, The Daily Dot and thousands of facebook “likes”. It also spiked traffic to the Crowdtilt site driving… Read More

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The crowdfunding throng is growing fast

March 23, 2013 @ 10:04 am By The Independent |

Subscribers to the showbiz news website Popbitch this week learnt more than the usual celebrity gossip. Alongside the truth behind those stories about Chris Huhne’s Twix bars in Wandsworth Prison were details of Popbitch’s plans to raise expansion money through a crowdfunding effort run by Kickstarter. That’s nothing new in the media world. Kickstarter has… Read More

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Crowdtilt Lands $12 Million Series A Round

March 22, 2013 @ 12:49 pm By Rip Empson |

Today TechCrunch announced that YC-backed Crowdtilt has raised a $12 million Series A round. From the article… Today, TechCrunch has learned from sources that Crowdtilt has raised $12 million in Series A financing. It’s the startup’s second round of funding, following its $2.1 million seed round back in May, which it raised from SV Angel, Crunch Fund, Y… Read More

Co Founder of Crowdfunding site Crowdtilt on Power Lunch

James Beshara CEO and Co-Founder of Crowdtilt

February 26, 2013 @ 10:24 pm By CFI Correspondent |

Crowdfunding site Crowdtilt Co-founder and CEO James Beshara is scheduled to participate in CNBC show Power Lunch on Wednesday, February 27th at 1PM ET. Along with host Tyler Mathisen and CNBC Media Reporter Julia Boorstin – AngelList founder and CEO Naval Ravikant will be present to interview Beshara. Beshara is on his second crowdfunding model with… Read More

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Crowdtilt Wants to Help Crowdfund Your Next Party

February 26, 2013 @ 5:57 pm By CNBC |

Entrepreneur James Beshara has built two crowdfunding websites since graduating Wake Forest University in 2008. It’s his second one, Crowdtilt, that has caught the attention of Silicon Valley’s biggest players, including Napster’s Sean Parker and the venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz. While the crowdfunding space has entrenched players like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, Beshara thinks there’s… Read More

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White Label Crowdfunding Platforms

February 5, 2013 @ 7:00 am By CFI Correspondent |

As crowdfunding quickly evolves as an accepted form of financing for your business, project or whatever compels you – it is inevitable that alternatives to the Kickstarter / Indiegogo duopoly evolve. There is something to be said for being first, but over time, competitors will slowly appear. The current crowdfunding leaders are revolutionary and great…. Read More

Read more in: Featured Headlines, Strategy | Tagged crowdhoster, crowdtilt, lockitron, selfstarter

Indiegogo Runner Up for Biggest Social Impact Crunchies Award

February 2, 2013 @ 10:10 am By CFI Correspondent |

Crowdfunding trail blazer Indiegogo received recognition as runner up for the Biggest Social Impact Crunchies Award this past Thursday. Bested by Reddit who took the prized Crunchie. Kickstarter was also in the running along with micro-finance site Kiva. Last year the same award was delivered to ubiquitous Twitter. Another Crowdfunding site was also up for… Read More

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Crowdtilt’s latest product helps those who can’t code – crowdfund

Launch Your Own Crowdfunding Site Without Touching a Line of Code

January 30, 2013 @ 9:11 pm By VentureBeat |

Crowdfunding is as hot right now as English-Irish boy band One Direction and everybody wants a piece. Crowdtilt has released a new product called CrowdHoster that makes it easy to build a custom crowdfunding site without having to write any code. This popular Y Combinator startup provides an online place for friends to pool their… Read More

Fundraising for Charity Using Crowdfunding

January 15, 2013 @ 7:00 am By CFI Correspondent |

It used to be that most organizations fundraising for charity had to do so the old fashioned way, whether that be by direct (snail) mail, specific events, or in person solicitations. These were all methods which could be very successful, but these methods were also exceptionally inefficient and very time consuming. In the age of web 3.0… Read More

CrowdTilt Crowdfunds the Party of The Year

January 13, 2013 @ 8:54 pm By CFI Correspondent |

Check out the photos from CrowdTilts Crowdfunded New Years Eve party on the pages at BusinessInsider. Or go straight to the source for Up All Night Las Vegas NYE 2012. CrowdTilt is a site that allows y0u to Group Fund Anything You Love Simply and Socially. CrowdTilt is another crowdfunding site up for a TechCrunch Crunchie… Read More