Tagged: deal focus

April 2, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Sean Folkson has created a product called NightFood, a bar meant for those that have a hard time making it through the evening without snacking. There is plenty of research to suggest that eating late at night can contribute to an unhealthy lifestyle. NightFood aims… Read More

March 29, 2013 @ 8:28 am By JD Alois  |  

  Crowdfunding and 3-D Printers have been quite the rage of late.  Other companies have successfully crowdfunded their 3-D printer projects.  A recent search on Indiegogo revealed 4 pages associated with the term 3-D printing – but then more than a few were looking for… Read More

February 19, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. W.C. Fields The folks at Crowdfund Insider have been known to enjoy a whiskey from time to time. I’m a bourbon fan myself. Sipping a whiskey on the… Read More

February 16, 2013 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter now is a project from BrainZoo Studios based in Los Angeles – Pepe & Lucas: An Animated Series.  And who is BrainZoo?  Beyond the very cool name they are an Emmy Award winning studio that has been in business for 17 years…. Read More

February 14, 2013 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding LobbyPlag from OpenDataCity on Vimeo. So what is Krautreporter?  As  reported previously, The goal of the platform is to establish a Crowdfunding site for journalism in German speaking countries.  Now what is Lobbyplag? An open source European Union transparency tool on Lobbying.  They are crowdfunding… Read More

January 26, 2013 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

The Safari Surf School located in Nosara, Costa Rica has launched a crowdfunding campaign for their ongoing pursuit of becoming carbon neutral.  Crowdfunding on Indiegogo their goal is to raise only $5000.00 to accomplish their objectives.  As of this writing they were well on their at… Read More

January 19, 2013 @ 2:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

I am a tech junkie constantly lurking the pages of the umpteen different tech sites hunting down the “next big thing”.  Crowdfunding has turbo charged the creativity and innovation in the tech world.  Now the market analysis is completed prior to product launch.  The customers… Read More

January 5, 2013 @ 8:30 pm By CFI Corresondent  |  

Matt McDonald, Chief Creative Officer of Heavy Water (also dba as Vision Scape Interactive), has been in the gaming industry for a long time.  He achieved international recognition in the 90’s with such titles as Assasin 2010 (for which he won a Cody’s award) and he… Read More

December 15, 2012 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Here is an interesting crowdfund pitch I recently stumbled across.  Discoverd on the successful equity crowdfunding platform CrowdCube based in the UK, this offering comes from Kammerling’s Investment Holdings LTD. The offering details are as follows: Investment Target of £ 325,000 Equity Offered 20% As of… Read More

November 13, 2012 @ 8:04 am By JD Alois  |  

  This Deal is currently running on Indiegogo – but only has 7 days left to go.  The 1:Face Watch falls under the category of an unqualified success.  Their initial goal of  $25,000.00 was surpassed.  Easily.  1:Face Watch has raised over $212,000.00 with a few… Read More

November 12, 2012 @ 4:45 am By JD Alois  |  

This is in follow up to our previous Deal Focus on the UK based company Thoughtful Bread.  You may read our Deal Focus article here. We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to founder Duncan Glendinning and his team for successfully reaching their goal!  They… Read More

November 2, 2012 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

This deal focus is not really focusing on a single deal today. With the tragedy of Hurricane Sandy dominating the news, this catastrophe was too great to ignore. Unless you are in isolation you have seen the overwhelming photos of the damage the Hurricane has… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 1:56 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

  Gerhard Schulz is set to retire from the Army in the spring of 2013 after 28 years in the service.  He is leveraging crowdfunding web site Sprigster in hopes of raising $50,000 to open a new FitGolf franchise in Houston, Texas. From the Sprigster… Read More