September 14, 2013 @ 12:08 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Pax Dickinson had a bad week. Dickinson was the CTO of popular news site Business Insider. It turns out that over the years he has amassed a collection of posts on Twitter that some found offensive, and it seems it finally caught up to him… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 11:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Recently MogoTXT CEO Andrew Won told Joystiq that his Blitz-style NFL arcade game Gridiron Thunder will be released on September 30th. Won ignited a firestorm recently after threatening legal action against a backer via the commenting platform on Kickstarter. This was in the midst of his company’s… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Juices+ is crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The campaign has already more than doubled a $40,000 goal for their premium USB phone charging cables. The campaign is just a few thousand dollars short of a big stretch goal that would unlock a gold anodized version of their… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 3:58 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Equity Endeavor is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform that has just launched two pilot platforms. The platforms will focus on projects in Austin, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana. Equity Endeavor is described as a “city specific crowdfunding platform created to help local businesses and entrepreneurs raise… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 3:13 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Australia-based Pozible is a big rewards-based crowdfunding platform on the global stage, having been in operation since 2010. Originally called “Fundbreak,” the platform was rebranded as Pozible in January of 2011. Now Pozible has set up shop in San Francisco and is set to start… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 2:03 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter has announced that they are moving to HTML5 video and the accompanying <video> tag as a primary means of serving video on their crowdfunding platform. This is in contrast to their previous approach of relying mainly on Flash video and relying on HTML5 as… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 1:53 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

On the BoardGameGeek forums, a member preparing a crowdfunding campaign for a new tabletop game posed an interesting and simple question: How much art should be complete before the launch of the campaign? Here are a collection of thoughts shared in the thread. (You can… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 11:01 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Since the last time we compiled this list some interesting trends are emerging, not the least of which is the sheer dominance of gaming-related campaigns on the Kickstarter platform – both tabletop games and video games. Interestingly enough, none of the top 10 have changed,… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 7:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

This statement from Tomer Barel, PayPal VP of Risk Management, was posted yesterday and just shared with Crowdfund Insider. We’re posting this in it’s entirety and letting it speak for itself. TL;DR: it seems PayPal is about to get serious on fixing systemic issues regarding… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 5:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Omate TrueSmart came under fire recently following a post on Google Plus that explained problems with the form factor of the device and promises the device’s manufacturers had made regarding the inclusion of the Google Play store. The TrueSmart has a week left until… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 4:40 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today business insurance provider Hiscox released their fifth annual DNA Of An Entrepreneur report. The eDNA report is a global annual study of 3,000 owners or partners in small and medium-sized businesses in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Spain,… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 12:11 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

MyNewFinancialAdvisor, Inc. (MFNA) recently completed an over-subscribed Series A round, raising $1.5 million in part via crowdfunding. “This was a pleasant surprise for us and we are very excited about the opportunity that this raise represents on several fronts. It validated our business model in terms… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 10:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Kickstarter campaign for Mighty No. 9 has hit $2 million with 19 days left. The campaign will spend the remainder of it’s lifecycle trying to ascend the all-time Kickstarter charts. It was only 9 days ago that we were covering the $1 million milestone,… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 10:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Prizeo is a really interesting take on crowdfunding. The platform is a celebrity-focused charitable donation site. It offers backers the chance to support a cause and earn cool rewards from the celebrities they love, and it also encourages celebrities to use their profiles to raise… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 9:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Daniel Haarburger is a two-time crowdfunding success, with both projects having been fully funded on Kickstarter. His first project was the WINGStand, a set of small clips that allowed iPhone and iPad users to mount their phones to popular Apple bluetooth keyboards. Backers appreciated the… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 11:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Travail is an innovative fine dining restaurant in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Response to the restaurant has been so positive that the establishment quickly outgrew its original digs. Now the four-man team behind Travail has taken to Kickstarter to fund kitchen equipment for their new location, and… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 9:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The campaign for Project Phoenix on Kickstarter has come to an end, but not before crossing $1 million in funding. The team also raised over $30,000 via PayPal donations in a separate effort. Project Phoenix is described as a “fantasy themed squad-based real-time strategy game combined… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 9:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In a rather scathing piece in Kotaku yesterday, Owen Good takes issue with Ouya’s #FreeTheGames fund, which has certainly resulted in some unintended consequences for the fledgeling indie console. In examining campaigns for Elementary, My Dear Holmes and Gridiron Thunder, Good wonders how Ouya still has any… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 8:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Point of Law is a great resource for digestible breakdowns of regulation and bureaucratic legal-speak. Today Jonathan B. Wilson published a great breakdown of Wisconsin’s proposed crowdfunding exemption this morning. One paragraph is of particular importance… In a strange twist, however, the Wisconsin bill would… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 7:35 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdtilt is working on a mobile app that will allow anyone to create or back projects directly from their smartphone. Those interested in the app can sign up to be notified of the app’s release on Crowdtilt’s homepage. The announcement was made today at TechCrunch… Read More