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 @ 10:41 am By VentureBeat  |  

Hidden Path Entertainment has found an angel investor to fund the final step of development for Defense Grid 2, the sequel to a popular tower-defense game. Last year, Bellevue, Wash.-based developer Hidden Path managed to raised $271,726 from more than 6,000 donors for a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. But the money didn’t fully fund the cost of… Read More

Read more in: Strategy  |  Tagged angel, defense grid 2, gaming, hidden path entertainment, kickstarter, video games

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

Read more in: Opinion  |  Tagged kickstarter, lamborghini

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 @ 7:00 am By MoneyCentral  |  

India is abuzz with innovation and entrepreneurs seeking funds to float new ideas. Typically, entrepreneurs raise money for their fledgling start-ups from angel investors, venture capitalists and even banks.But getting cash from these sources is a tedious affair, and many small start-ups are not equipped to handle the paperwork. Crowd-funding is thus a great alternative to… Read More

Read more in: Global  |  Tagged india, indiegogo, kickstarter, priyanka agarwa, wishberry

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 @ 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

Read more in: Offerings  |  Tagged farming, kickstarter, maple farms, maple syrup

May 16, 2013 @ 9:00 am By CFI Correspondent  |  

All this week CNBC will be sharing their list of 50 disruptors.  Crowdfunding platforms CircleUp, LendingClub and Kickstarter have made the list of a new companies which are shaking up their sector – financial services.  LendingClub has recently hit front page headlines with the $125 Million investment for tech powerhouse Google. Kickstarter and CircleUp are… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, General News  |  Tagged circleup, cnbc, kickstarter, lendingclub, list of disruptors

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 @ 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

May 16, 2013 @ 8:01 am By The Daily Dot  |  

It’s finally happened. Kickstarter users have said “No thanks!” to a celebrity’s film project. The crowdfunding campaign for the film Darci’s Walk of Shame, which had Melissa Joan Hart attached to it, was cancelled Monday after raising only $51,605 from 315 backers in a little over a month. The hope was to raise $2 million. For… Read More

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May 15, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By Metronews.ca  |  

A Robocop statue in Detroit? I’d buy that for a dollar. That’s exactly what legions of Robocop fans did in 2011. After Detroit Mayor Dave Bingkiboshed the idea on Twitter, a Kickstarter campaign managed to raise over $67,000 to get a statute of the iconic cyber-cop erected in the city. Two years later, a 10-foot statue of director… Read More

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May 15, 2013 @ 12:13 pm By GigaOM  |  

Coming off a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund its Dispatch broadband aggregation software, Connectify is returning to the crowd-funding site for the next iteration of its product. This time around, the Philadelphia startup is developing a cloud-based packet parsing and channel bonding service called Switchboard designed to speed up video and other high-bandwidth content to your Mac… Read More

Read more in: General News  |  Tagged connectify, internet, kickstarter, wireless innovation