Tagged: pebble

August 18, 2013 @ 7:57 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

There is a big question that will be answered this week. In fact, I’d argue it is the biggest question in the brief history of rewards-based crowdfunding. It may be a 32-million-dollar question… Will Canonical extend their campaign for the Ubuntu Edge? The Indiegogo campaign… Read More

August 16, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Ubuntu Edge smartphone has surpassed the Pebble Watch‘s rewards-based crowdfunding record of $10,266,845. However, unless Canonical can find $22 million more in funding it may end up being all for naught. The campaign for the Edge is a fixed funding campaign, which means that… Read More

August 13, 2013 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Smartwatch Kreyos Meteor easily hit their initial goal of raising $100,000 on Indiegogo and now their crowdfunding campaign has ended having raised $1,505,219 from 11,730 backers.  Kreyos is now the second most funded campaign on Indiegogo to date.  Kreyos joins the growing list of smartwatches… Read More

July 30, 2013 @ 10:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo has just added a fifth million-dollar crowdfunding campaign to it’s roughly five year history: the KREYOS smartwatch. We first reported on the KREYOS back in June. I found myself impressed by the featureset the developers of the KREYOS aimed to integrate into their crowdfunded… Read More

July 24, 2013 @ 6:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Tile location Device Skips Big Crowdfunding Platforms to Use Selfstarter Becoming the Most Successful Selfstarter Crowdfunding Campaign Ever. The tiny blue tooth device to keep track of your belongings both large and small launched a super sized crowdfunding campaign foregoing crowdfunding giants Indiegogo and Kickstarter… Read More

July 16, 2013 @ 4:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Success as Creator Preps for Appearance on CNBC. The Tile Location device blew past $1,000,000 crowdfunded on a goal of only $20,000 or a beat of over 5800%.  With 7 days left in their crowdfunding campaign the amount stood at over $1.1 Million funded… Read More

July 15, 2013 @ 10:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Pozible and Pebble were highlighted in World News Australia’s recent coverage of the global phenomenon that is crowdfunding. Watch below…

July 11, 2013 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pebble Holding an AMA on Reddit today at 3PM EST Eric Migicovsky and Team Pebble posted an update on their Kickstarter update page sharing they have registered over 275,000 Pebbles being pre-ordered since they launched their now famous crowdfunding campaign.  This number includes the 190,000… Read More

July 3, 2013 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Exclusive Arrangement with Best Buy Finally Brings to Retail the Most Successful Crowdfunding Campaign on Kickstarter to Date. The Pebble watch which has been lauded by many as a profound validation for crowdfunding has announced an exclusive arrangement with tech retailer Best Buy beginning this… Read More

July 3, 2013 @ 8:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Often times crowdfunding in the United States is discussed as a dichotomy. On one hand you have the brand of crowdfunding that takes place now, the donation- and rewards-based models that fuel sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and countless others. On the other hand you have… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The AGENT smartwatch, currently on Kickstarter, implements some savvy design features to try and improve upon what they call the “last generation” of smartwatches. They’re looking at you, Pebble. The biggest design improvement has to be the inclusion of a second, smaller processor for moments… Read More

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,… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 8:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Updated: Click here for the most recent version of this list… You may remember that we recently did this list on December 31st of last year. In just short of six months we have added 14 more campaigns to the list of Kickstarter raises that have… Read More

May 8, 2013 @ 8:52 am By TechVibes  |  

The rise of sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Rockethub, Fundageek have successfully fueled the project dreams of artists, musicians, engineers and a plethora of other masters-of-the-universe. Got the technology but not the funds to build a neurologically-engaged pillow that comforts the sleeper while providing high intensity… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 3:44 pm By Mashable  |  

The Pebble smart watch, which was made hugely popular when it raised more than $10 million on Kickstarter last year, can finally display real-time fitness information related to workouts. RunKeeper announced Tuesday an app update for iOS and Android that fully integrates with the Pebble watch, allowing runners… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 7:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google, Twitter… Kickstarter? Very few brands will ever reach this important milestone in Internet culture.

April 20, 2013 @ 2:59 am By ITBusiness  |  

Assessment of the impact of crowdfunding amongst those supplying funds starts with the identification of distinct groupings. Two are useful; individuals supplying their own funds – angels – and organizations using other people’s money – firms. The evidence thus far is that crowdfunding models are… Read More

April 19, 2013 @ 1:49 pm By ITBusiness.ca  |  

To question the merits of crowdfunding seems a surefire means of being awarded an OC – Order of Curmudgeon. Millions of person hours have been devoted to introduce it to the world and more than a few forests consumed by its advocates. There is clearly… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:29 am By Guardian.co.uk  |  

Most of us have heard of the Pebble watch, Tesla museum, Amanda Palmer or even the Karen Klein bus monitor campaigns. These crowdfunding hits captured media attention across the world in 2012, and arguably catapulted crowdfunding into the mainstream vernacular. Yet, the true revolution of crowdfunding isn’t happening in our newspapers… Read More

April 3, 2013 @ 10:35 am By IT World  |  

Back in September, Kickstarter felt the need to post an update stating that “Kickstarter Is Not a Store”. In it, the crowd-funding and project-launching phenomenon laid out a few new rules, clarified its mission a bit, and generally reinforced the key point in the headline: you… Read More