Offerings

April 30, 2013 @ 8:50 pm By PandoDaily  |  

Pop-quiz: Name an organization funded by users’ contributions who receive cheap swag in return. Is it the latest hot new Kickstarter? Nope, it’s National Public Radio. Well, actually in this case, it’s both. Instead of turning to a phone-a-thon to fund its latest Planet Money… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 7:44 am By Naples News  |  

… “Miss Julie” may well join them. By Sunday night, sixteen donors had put the company more than halfway toward its goal. Writing on Facebook, Brady said she was “thrilled.” Joining the project among the ranks of successful theatre-related Kickstarters, Florida Repertory Theatre’s Chris Clavelli… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 7:41 am By The Guardian  |  

Actor and director Zach Braff has hit back against suggestions he ought to have used his own money to fund his next film, rather than turning to the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. Braff recently reached a $2m (£1.29m) target to shoot Wish I Was Here, a follow-up to his well-received… Read More

April 29, 2013 @ 9:04 pm By GameZone  |  

After reaching more than $2 million in crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the Star Citizen developer kept donations open via its Roberts Space Industries website. It now has a pool of $9 million from both sources combined. That’s an increase of $1 million since mid-February. Star Citizen… Read More

April 29, 2013 @ 8:20 am By The New York Times  |  

Around 10 p.m. on a recent Friday night, roughly 500 people at the Dog and Duck Pub in Austin gathered around a man holding an iPad. The man was Rob Thomas, the creator of the cult-hit television series “Veronica Mars,” and he was staring at… Read More

April 28, 2013 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

With 26 days left to go on his Kickstarter crowdfunfunding campaign, Zach Braff’s film project “Wish I Was Here” surpassed their crowdfunding goal.  The original target was to raise $2Million and as of this morning the total stands at well over $2.1 Million supported by… Read More

April 27, 2013 @ 4:24 am By WFUV  |  

An online fundraising site makes it possible for NYC students to catch a Broadway show Forty New York City high school students are going to Alan Cumming’s one-man “Macbeth” on Broadway thanks to the kindness of strangers. English teacher Eric Jordan of Frederick Douglass Academy… Read More

April 27, 2013 @ 4:20 am By The Augusta Chronicle  |  

What started out as a kitchen project for Amanda Nicolet quickly turned into a budding business venture for the soon-to-be mother of three. In an effort to satisfy her husband’s affinity for hot, salty foods, Nicolet began experimenting in the kitchen about three weeks ago,… Read More

April 26, 2013 @ 9:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

My Netflix viewing history would tell you I’m a documentary nut. Color me excited, because this Kickstarter campaign aims to create a documentary about Aaron Swartz’s life and death and it looks fantastic. The video above is 10 minutes long, but the last 7 or… Read More

April 26, 2013 @ 7:01 am By Time Business  |  

Crowdfunding used to be a last resort for projects that couldn’t raise money any other way. But in the movie business over the past year, a growing number of accomplished directors, producers and screenwriters have turned to the masses to avoid the hassle of dealing… Read More

April 26, 2013 @ 6:58 am By PolicyMic  |  

Last year, I wrote a pretty controversial piece about Matter, a long-form science journalism web site with little inkling of a business model that managed to raise $140,000 on Kickstarter from 2,566 people who apparently have far bigger hearts and more optimism about the future of journalism than I do…. Read More

April 25, 2013 @ 7:23 am By International Business Times  |  

“Veronica Mars” has unleashed a beast. Following Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell’s massively successful Kickstarter campaign, which raised $5.7 million on a $2 million goal to fund a movie version of their CW television show, Zach Braff is the latest A-lister to dip his toes into… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

MERCS Miniatures in Indianapolis, Indiana has a lot to celebrate as the campaign for their new board game ends. The campaign for “MYTH” is set to finish at over $900,000 of funding, completely destroying their original goal of $40,000. UPDATE: The final tally was $924,876… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 10:02 am By Charles Luzar  |  

[View the story “The Internet Reacts To @zachbraff’s Kickstarter Campaign” on Storify] Have a crowdfunding offering you’d like to share? Submit an offering for consideration using our Submit a Tip form and we may share it on our site!

April 24, 2013 @ 8:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Zach Braff is perhaps most famous for his prominent role on the hit TV show “Scrubs,” but he also wrote and directed “Garden State.” The 2004 movie which also featured Natalie Portman won various awards, including a Grammy for best soundtrack. It is now a… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 8:07 am By TechCrunch  |  

Kickstarter might be better known for funding films and hardware projects, but it’s now getting its first synthetic biology proposal. A Singularity University alum, a Stanford post-doc and a Stanford Ph.D. are looking to use synthetic biology and software from startup Genome Compiler to creatingplants that… Read More

April 23, 2013 @ 10:02 am By Huffington Post  |  

Jordan Rudess is a fascinating amalgam of a musician. He’s primarily known as the keyboardist, Continuum-player, multi-instrumentalist for the Grammy-nominated prog rock/metal icons Dream Theater. Beyond that, the classically trained Julliard pianist has a fascination with technology. His company, Wizdom Music, has also released a number of apps… Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 12:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hélène Campbell has announced the Give2Live Campaign, a social media effort that uses crowdfunding to support the needs of those waiting for transplants throughout Canada. “Many patients waiting for an organ transplant at Toronto General Hospital and other transplant centres are required to live within… Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 9:59 am By VentureBeat  |  

Small business owners play a big role in the battles against disease, climate change, and corporate wrong-doing. In the past year, a company called CircleUp has helped them with their fight. CircleUp is a crowdfunding platform for up-and-coming consumer product businesses. In the year since its launch,… Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 8:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Josie Baudendistel is working with Dr. Eric Benbow, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Dayton. She has been an author on three conference presentations in association with Dr. Benbow and is now crowdfunding further research on how opossums see in the… Read More