Tagged: kickstarter

March 30, 2014 @ 2:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Pono Music team must be elated.  Their crowdfunding campaign that was set to raise $800,000 – not a small amount – has not surpassed $5,000,000 in crowdfunding.  Almost 15,000 supporters have backed this crowdfunding project on Kickstarter – and as we recently reported –… Read More

March 29, 2014 @ 10:13 am By JD Alois  |  

This first crowdfunding campaign for Mailbox is pretty exciting.  Recently we have seen a wave of new transportation devices using crowdfunding to finance new innovative approaches to moving people.  Today we are sharing Me-Mover the “next step in urban mobility”.  This is project that is… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 10:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Pono Music campaign continues to ascend Kickstarter’s all-time most funded list. The “end-to-end ecosystem for music lovers” has garnered nearly 15,000 backers at the time of writing and had raised just short of $5 million. Thanks everyone for all of your support. It has… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It seems everyone has an opinion on Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR and what it means for crowdfunding. That was the topic of conversation on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.” Yesterday the program hosted New York University Stern School of Business Professor Anindya Ghose and a… Read More

March 27, 2014 @ 1:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

So did you hear that Facebook bought Oculus VR for $2 billion? It’s the story that the entire tech world was talking about, and for good reason. Oculus is a clear leader in the world of virtual reality hardware. It’s one of the poster children… Read More

March 26, 2014 @ 4:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a video interview former Facebook executive and Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) partner Bubba Murarka comments on the acquisition by Facebook of Oculus VR for $2 billion which was announced yesterday. Murarka admits that the move by Facebook is risky but also notes that without… Read More

March 26, 2014 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Tabletop game Dwarven Forge’s Caverns is the next crowdfunding project to breach the $1 million mark on Kickstarter.  The project is scheduled to close on April 8 so there is plenty of time for this amount to move higher.  Over 3100 backers have supported this… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 5:50 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Mark Zuckerberg just announced Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR in a post to… you guessed it. Post by Mark Zuckerberg. WOW. Early investor Chris Dixon lauded the team… I can’t say enough about the Oculus team. Palmer, Brendan, John, Nate, and the rest of the… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 11:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Meet Frank Bell. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter is trying to blaze a path to success, and for artists like Bell that path increasingly includes crowdfunding. As part of a joint effort between TED and Skype, Bell recently had the chance to ask questions of a panel… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 8:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding superstar OUYA continues to find it’s way as it alters strategy once again.  In a recent blog post, OUYA’s Bob Mills stated; In the coming weeks, we’re going to let devs choose if they want to charge up front for their games. Now they’ll… Read More

March 23, 2014 @ 7:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yancey Strickler has only recently become Kickstarter CEO taking the place of his best friend Perry Chen.  Strickler has been doing the media rounds of late touting the crowdfunding gospel.   This past week he visited Charlie Rose where he was interviewed by august journalist…. Read More

March 23, 2014 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The Dash, a wireless – two piece headphone – crowdfunding on Kickstarter has broken the $3 million dollar mark as over 14,000 backers have signed up to support the project.  Their crowdfunding goal was initially just $260,000.  Created by Munich, Germany based BRAGI, the unique… Read More

March 22, 2014 @ 1:03 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

In the Miami Herald it was recently revealed that a handful of Guantanamo detainees have generated a business plan for an agricultural venture in Yemen. Called “Yemen Milk & Honey Farms Ltd,” the proposal outlines a “self-sufficient agricultural business west of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.” The 75… Read More

March 22, 2014 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Pebble still holds the record for the biggest Kickstarter campaign of all time. So, did crowdfunding success translate into big numbers in the world of retail? The figures suggest that Pebble has certainly found their niche. The company has generated a napkin math estimate of… Read More

March 22, 2014 @ 10:15 am By JD Alois  |  

We had some great emails from crowdfunders this week.  It was really tough to narrow down the campaigns for this week’s Mailbox.  Keep them coming as we do look at them all.  There were a couple campaigns emailed to us that I have flagged to… Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 5:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

TechCrunch Disrupt is taking place at the Manhattan Center in New York City on May 5-7, and Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler will be among the many thought leaders gracing the stage in 2014. John Biggs of TechCrunch alludes to the discussion skewing toward Crowdfunding 2.0, so… Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 1:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

. Unless you are looking to pick up a pretty cool T-shirt or just give some backer “pure love” – you will be out of luck in reserving a Mini-Museum reward as this crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter blew the doors off an interesting project for… Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 10:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Steve Swink is an Arizona-based game developer and the man behind Scale, a video game that raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter in a round that closed late in 2013. The game looks incredible, by the way. It elicits thoughts of Portal with a bit of… Read More

March 19, 2014 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

RSVP required. Hey New York! We’re hosting another Kickstarter Open House on March 20th. Whether you’re making a film, designing a fashion line, launching an app or anything in between, no creative idea is too weird, big or small. Come hang out!

March 18, 2014 @ 4:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

________________________________ I must admit I was a bit mesmerized watching people zip around on this new type of cycle.  I am a committed biker so I was intrigued to see a bike (tricycle?) with a joy stick zooming around the country. Created by a startup… Read More