June 5, 2013 @ 10:11 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Today in should have seen that coming: An 18 year old girl named Nicole moved into a house with a handful of her friends after graduating high school. One day everyone decided to do what young people do and jump off the roof and into the pool…. Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 9:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier this week Forbes contributor Devin Thorpe interviewed three professors regarding their recent report on patterns in crowdfunding markets. Serious academic research in the nascent field of crowdfunding is limited, but Gordon Burtch of the University of Minnesota, Anindya Ghose of New York University and Sunil Wattal… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 9:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This week the folks behind the For Dummies® series of self help and reference books announced a new title focusing on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. From the press release… Today, the world’s bestselling reference series, For Dummies® announces Kickstarter For Dummies (Wiley, 978-1-118-50543-4, May 2013, US… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If you’re a regular visitor to Crowdfund Insider you’ve no doubt heard of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality gaming headset approved by grandmothers everywhere. Now the Rift’s logical companion is crowdfunding on Kickstarter and it has already met a $150,000 funding goal. It’s called… Read More

June 3, 2013 @ 8:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Enterprising and adventerous musicians everywhere are drooling… The OWL is an open source, open hardware, reprogrammable effects pedal designed for musicians, coders, and hackers. With a little bit of C++ hackery the OWL can be made to sound like just about anything. This is music… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 11:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Did you know that looking at a garden in infrared can help a gardener see areas of high growth versus elements of low growth or decay? You learn something new every day. That is the idea behind the Infagram, which aims to put an infrared… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Cicadas have been making headlines this year for their once-every-17-year-emergence from the ground on the mid-Atlantic coast. Now Samuel Orr has launched a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of creating a documentary on the phenomenon, and the campaign is fully funded. Orr has announced a $20,000… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Joy Schoffler of Leverage PR will be heading to the White House to attend the Champions of Change event this week. From the press release… The Champions of Change program shares the stories of people across the country who have strengthened their communities. This week, innovative entrepreneurs… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 9:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding pioneer and gaming legend Andrew Reisse was killed in his hometown of Irvine, California last night. Reisse was crossing the street when he was struck by a car that was involved in a police pursuit. Reisse was 33 years old. Mashable reported the following statement… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 10:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Back in April we reported on a partnership between RocketHub and Pouplar Science that encouraged readers of PopSci to submit their projects and ideas to RocketHub for consideration and crowdfunding… Crowdfunding site RocketHub has started a project with Popular Science to crowdfund their readers best ideas…. Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 9:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jon Lajoie is probably best known for his role on TV’s The League. He has now launched a fake crowdfunding page soliciting fake donations in order to “acquire massive wealth.” It’s a (pretty hilarious) tongue-in-cheek parody of celebrity-powered crowdfunding campaigns. He specifically takes shots at… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: Double Fine Productions does it again. MASSIVE CHALICE has surpassed it’s goal and is on the way to the million dollar mark. Double Fine Productions can now boast being one of the few people or companies to have two successful six-figure crowdfunding campaigns under their… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 8:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A good, quick visual of how crowdfunding works…

May 31, 2013 @ 8:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Bisakha Sen, an associate professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, has launched a campaign on Microryza to fund her research into the effect of gun policy and gun culture on public safety in the United States. The project aims to draw conclusions based… Read More

May 30, 2013 @ 8:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter is used to fund everything from the unimaginable to the completely absurd, and five projects on our radar today pretty much run that gamut. Here are five projects getting a lot of buzz this week… ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone Planetary Resources is… Read More

May 29, 2013 @ 2:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today Mashable released a video that provides a high-level overview of The Prodigy Network, a multinational crowdfunding company with roots in real estate. We’ve written about the Prodigy Network here before among other real estate-focused crowdfunding sites. What the Prodigy Network accomplished in crowdfunding a… Read More

May 29, 2013 @ 7:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter’s stats crossed an impressive milestone yesterday: 100,000 projects launched on the platform since it went live in April of 2009. It’s official! Over 100K projects have launched on Kickstarter. Can’t wait to see what comes next! kickstarter.com/help/stats — Kickstarter (@kickstarter) May 28, 2013 About… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 1:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

ProPublica is an independent non-profit journalistic organization based in New York that prides itself on publishing investigative journalism in the public’s interest. One of the next topics the folks at ProPublica want to tackle is the proliferation of unpaid internships in America. They’ve launched a… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarted is the first documentary feature about the crowdfunding revolution that tells the inspiring and dramatic stories of the artists, makers and entrepreneurs who are harnessing the crowd to achieve the impossible. Jason Cooper and Jay Armitage have launched a Kickstarter campaign for their documentary about… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We may not have our flying cars just yet, but a man from Southampton in the UK has developed a remote controlled version that looks pretty amazing. Behold the B, a remote-controlled flying car currently seeking backers on Kickstarter. The patent-pending design places four propellers within… Read More