July 9, 2013 @ 10:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

GameFront’s top comment of the week this past week tackled Double Fine, Kickstarter and video games crowdfunded for donations and rewards. The commenter makes an interesting point about the lack of control a Kickstarter backer has over the trajectory of the project. “What is said… Read More

July 9, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding expert Sherwood Neiss just tweeted that Israel is ramping up efforts to implement a framework for crowdfunding. Access to capital for all! Israel to introduce #crowdfunding legislation similar to #USJOBSAct. Nations are lining up. What country is next? — Crowdfund Investing (@woodien) July 9,… Read More

July 9, 2013 @ 10:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Let’s face it: building a basic crowdfunding platform is easy. This is at least in part why the space is so exciting. Many disruptors will come and go, and those that execute best will stay. A recent post on Mozilla Hacks includes a tutorial to… Read More

July 8, 2013 @ 10:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Soho Loft has teamed with FundingPost.com for an event in New York City this August. The NYC VC, Angel and Crowd Investing Conference will bring together representatives from venture capital, angel groups and the crowdfunding space to discuss how to access capital in the 21st… Read More

July 8, 2013 @ 10:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This release was submitted to Crowdfund Insider and republished in its entirety. Scott Conditt is an Arizona-based filmmaker launching a documentary about Kickstarter project creators. A project titled “Kickstarted: Documenting the Crowdfunding Revolution” recently received funding through the premiere crowd-funding entity itself, Kickstarter.com. Indie-film and crowd-funding enthusiast… Read More

July 6, 2013 @ 3:39 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Molly Lindquist is the founder of a nonprofit organization and crowdfunding platform called Consano, which focuses on medical research. TechCrunch TV did an interview with Lindquist, who generated the idea after fighting breast cancer herself. It joins Watsi, Microryza and others in the medical research… Read More

July 6, 2013 @ 3:31 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

HarperCollins, who publishes Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, has filed a notice under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. That has forced Kickstarter to pull a project that aimed to bring an unlicensed sequel of the book to backers. Geoffery O. Todd and Rich Berner had… Read More

July 5, 2013 @ 11:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfund Insider is hearing from multiple sources that the SEC is nearing proposed rules for Title III of the JOBS Act. Title III mandates equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors. A proposal of rules by the SEC would open the process to a period of public… Read More

July 5, 2013 @ 10:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on troubles within Double Fine Productions regarding the development of Broken Age, the subject of their first Kickstarter campaign. That campaign was backed to the tune of $3.3 million on a goal of just $400,000. RELATED: Double Fine Out Of Money For ‘Broken… Read More

July 5, 2013 @ 9:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors is holding their annual conference in Chicago next week, and for the first time ever the conference will include a large panel on crowdfunding. The AM&AA is comprised of 900 independent professionals – CPAs, attorneys, investors, M&A advisors,… Read More

July 4, 2013 @ 12:46 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Cristina Cordova is in business development at online payment processor Stripe. Stripe is a well-known payment system. I’ve personally worked on Stripe integrations and can say that it’s a very nice system to work with, so my interest was piqued when I saw that Cristina… Read More

July 4, 2013 @ 11:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

After raising over $3 million to product ‘Double Fine Adventure,’ Double Fine Productions has now run out of money developing the game, which has since been renamed to Broken Age. The solution? The game will be broken into two parts, the first of which is… Read More

July 3, 2013 @ 9:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A Kickstarter campaign launched by Richard Nachum Kligman seeks funding for a luxury line of clothing catering to those with special needs, and the campaign was just recently fully funded. The brand is called Mianzi. Kligman’s son Moishy was the inspiration for Mianzi, which means “a face… Read More

July 2, 2013 @ 9:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

SeedInvest has launched a new feature on their equity crowdfunding platform. The feature, called SeedInvest Groups, specifically targets angel groups, venture capitalists and other organizations with an active role in funding early-stage companies. SeedInvest CEO Ryan Feit says that the new feature was largely driven… Read More

July 1, 2013 @ 1:36 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A group of Chicago 8th graders have successfully funded a collaboratively-designed project on Kickstarter. The campaign is a product of the Science and Entrepreneurship Exchange (SEE), a program launched by Chicago’s Nettelhorst School aimed at teaching young people some of the ins and outs of… Read More

July 1, 2013 @ 1:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Zach Braff has made TheWrap.com’s list of 12 people who are changing Hollywood for his noted “Wish I Was Here” Kickstarter campaign. That guy started an internet feeding frenzy earlier this year when he decided to crowdfund a follow-up called “Wish I Was Here” at… Read More

June 29, 2013 @ 1:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Wordpress developers Studio 164a have released their fourth Wordpress theme on Themeforest, and this one is geared specifically for bootstrapped crowdfunding platforms running Wordpress and the increasingly popular (and free) Astoundify crowdfunding plugin. The Franklin theme professes to be fully responsive, so it should display nicely… Read More

June 29, 2013 @ 1:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Lumu promises to be the “light meter for the 21st century,” and the light meter for the iPhone is fully funded on Kickstarter. The campaign page suggests that we live in the golden age of photography, and it’s hard to argue. As high-quality cameras become… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 10:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A. Brian Dengler of CfIRA posted a comprehensive breakdown of a paper released by two professors of economics and management at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Crowdfunding, as an innovative capital formation strategy and investment possibility, has both supporters and skeptics. In order to investigate and… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 10:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rewards-based crowdfunding and the celebrity-driven campaigns that go with it are providing plenty of cannon fodder for US comedians. Cracked recently posted this video of a would-be actor creating a pitch video to fund a pitch video for his Kickstarter campaign. Sure, we all love… Read More