Tagged: kickstarter

Gizmodo’s Eric Limer On Oculus Rift: “It is going to change the world”

Oculus VR isn’t a stranger to rave reviews of the forthcoming Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset poised to be really disruptive in the video game industry. However, a recent piece in Gizmodo gives the device some seriously high praise. The title says it all: I Wore the… Read More

Shackleton Banjo Creates New Jobs

Privately owned Great British Banjo Company, based in Norwich, Norfolk, UK, which crowdfunded on Kickstarter last year has announced their successful crowdfunding campaign has led to the creation of several new jobs.  The company claims to be the “first affordable banjo to be manufactured in Britain… Read More

Kickstarter Up for Best Overall Startup Crunchies Award

Watsi, CrowdTilt Also Up for Awards along with Oculus VR. Rewards based crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is up for the Best Overall Startup of 2013 Crunchie Award. This is the 7th Annual event which is put together by TechCrunch along with partners GigaOm and VentureBeat.  One… Read More

Pebble Does Not Disappoint with New Version Smartwatch: Pebble Steel

Announced today during a special briefing at CES, Eric Migicovsky Pebble CEO and founder, revealed their 2nd version of the famous smartwatch.  The Pebble Steel, their premium version watch,  may be ordered today for $249.00 (ships in three weeks from today).  Simultaneously Pebble announced their… Read More

Snowden Documentary Raises $842K, Slated For September 2014 Release

Filmmakers Travis Doering and Jason Bourque have been raising funds for a documentary about Edward Snowden since the fall of 2013 with a plan of ending their funding campaign on January 1, 2014. That date has come to pass, and the result of their effort… Read More

By The Numbers: 2014 A Huge Year For Video Games In Crowdfunding

Kickstarter was dominant in 2013. Looking back to 2012, Kickstarter ended the year with over $320 million pledged to campaigns on the platform. After taking a look at the most recent Kickstarter statistics, they almost doubled it in 2013. We recently reported on some stats… Read More

Outlandish Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaigns from 2013

The past twelve months were good for global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.  While they do not publicly release site statistics like their friendly competitor Kickstarter, Indiegogo had a pretty good year.  Indiegogo facilitates funding for a lot of very cool projects, businesses and causes.  I continue… Read More

Decentralized Dance Party Strikes Again with New Year’s Eve Airport Party (Video)

Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party (DDP) welcomed the New Year in an awesome fashion by celebrating the first moments of 2014 at the Vancouver International Airport (of course).  The video below shares some of the fun which makes me want to know where the… Read More

Crowdfunding Mailbox: Hoodsie – Onesie, The Wave Set & Porscha Starr Lingerie

Happy New Year to all of our site visitors.  2013 was a great year for the crowdfunding industry on a global basis but I predict that 2014 will be even better as the industry captures wide-spread acceptance and becomes the norm for funding creative projects,… Read More

Crowdfunded 3D Printer “Buccaneer” Set to Exhibit Device Live at CES

Pirate3D launched their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter earlier this year to raise funds for their 3D printer “Bucaneer”.  The campaign closed on June 29, 2o14 having raised an incredible $1,438,765 from 3520 backers.  Their initial target was to raise $100,000. Now move forward a few… Read More

Veronica Mars Movie Trailer Premieres, Grand Kickstarter Experiment To Hit Theaters Soon

Last night during E! News, the movie trailer for Veronica Mars was shown for the first time. The movie is slated to begin appearing in theaters across the United States on March 14th, 2014. There’s something about that big WB that appears in the first ten seconds… Read More

WATCH: George Takei In One Of The Best Crowdfunding Primers Ever

If you have to watch a five minute video explaining the absolute basics of crowdfunding, please… stop what you’re doing and watch this. George Takei of Star Trek fame takes on crowdfunding basics in this episode of Takei’s Take, a YouTube video series created in partnership with… Read More

WATCH: Kickstarter Alum Obsidian Releases Project Eternity Trailer, Gives Game Final Name

Project Eternity was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter to the tune of almost $4 million. Now the game’s developer, Obsidian Entertainment, has released a gameplay trailer ahead of the game’s scheduled release sometime this year. The campaign page promised April of 2014, and by the looks… Read More

Fluent Forever Trains Your Ear for Foreign Languages

Crowdfunding Campaign on Kickstarter Has Raised an Incredible $81,000  – 8 Times Goal. Opera singer, teacher and author Gabriel Wyner set out to raise a mere $10,000 on Kickstarter. He crushed that goal in just over 2 days.  His crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter which ends… Read More

Sundance Film Festival Includes 20 Kickstarter Funded Films for 2014

Kickstarter has become a first funding choice for a growing number of films.  From big Hollywood hits like Veronica Mars to future classics like Kung Fury, crowdfunding will forever change the way films are funded.  For consecutive years Sundance, one of the most famous film… Read More

DropShades Party Glasses Finally Ship

After Successful Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign, Audio Responsive Glasses Are Being Delivered to Backers. DropShades used the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to raise initial funding to cover the tooling expenses for their audio responsive glasses that cascade an array of LED lights up and down depending on… Read More

Crowdfunding Anonymously: Why It Doesn’t Work

Photo courtesy smemon on Flickr: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

In traveling the country and fielding numerous requests from project creators – both current and potential  – certain questions have a tendency to pop up time and time again. One question that I get surprisingly often: can I crowdfund anonymously? It was echoed in a… Read More

Gridiron Thunder Game for OUYA: Recap

Gridiron Thunder, an “Awesome Indie Football Game for OUYA” was successfully crowdfunded on September 8, 2013 after enduring a contentious and controversial campaign on Kickstarter.  Raising $171,009 on a goal of $75,000 the organizer MogoTXT threatened legal action against one of the backers in the… Read More

On Kickstarter: Mr. Postman Brings Mailboxes Into Internet Of Things

Simple Elements LLC is a smart technology device company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Manuel, Pablo and Christy Masri serve as CEO, CTO and CFO respectively. The family hails from Argentina and they have developed a solar-powered smart mailbox that aims to weave mailboxes into the… Read More

AARP Magazine Runs Crowdfunding Feature, Cites Cautionary Letter

AARP The Magazine recently ran an article on crowdfunding dealing with the possibilities (and perils) of the evolving means of capital formation. Kickstarter, RocketHub and EarlyShares all get mention in the piece alongside Sherwood Neiss of Crowdfund Capital Advisors. Rockethub’s Alon Hillel-Tuch and EarlyShares’s Heather Schwarz-Lopes… Read More

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