Strategy

January 9, 2014 @ 9:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The fact that David Toledo and Power Practical are about to close a successful Kickstarter campaign for the PowerPot X isn’t necessarily remarkable in and of itself. The campaign has doubled a $30,000 and still has almost a week left. What is remarkable is that… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 9:38 am By Kendall Almerico  |  

The SEC’s 90-day comment period for the proposed JOBS Act equity crowdfunding rules ends in late January 2014. There is a chance that we could see the first JOBS Act crowdfunding campaigns as early as April, although I am not holding my breath on that… Read More

January 2, 2014 @ 10:40 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

If you have to watch a five minute video explaining the absolute basics of crowdfunding, please… stop what you’re doing and watch this. George Takei of Star Trek fame takes on crowdfunding basics in this episode of Takei’s Take, a YouTube video series created in partnership with… Read More

December 30, 2013 @ 4:32 pm By Georgia Quinn  |  

By December 18, 2014 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had proposed or adopted regulations mandated by Titles II, III and IV of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (JOBS Act). Those regulations impact crowdfunding in many ways. Issuers will now have a… Read More

December 30, 2013 @ 10:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In traveling the country and fielding numerous requests from project creators – both current and potential  – certain questions have a tendency to pop up time and time again. One question that I get surprisingly often: can I crowdfund anonymously? It was echoed in a… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 11:20 am By John Scaletta, Motion Source  |  

In November of 2013 my company, Motion Source Video Production, ran a Kickstarter campaign for a shoulder rig for video cameras. The campaign was very successful, with final totals leaving us at 376% funded beyond our original funding goal. In preparation for the campaign my… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 9:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Is your Kickstarter taking off? Are you worried about having too many backers to answer to and too many rewards to ship? Wish Kickstarter had the option to set a funding maximum? They do… kind of. It isn’t an explicit feature of the platform, but… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Mike Mowery and Nikhil Potdar are with Outerloop Management, a company specializing in the management of bands, specifically hardcore and metal bands. Both have helped clients launch a handful of successful crowdfunding campaigns. They’ve increasingly been using Indiegogo as their platform of choice lately, which… Read More

December 18, 2013 @ 5:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coin, the one card to replace them all, has released they are continuing their presale of the product for the foreseeable future. Coin’s purpose is to create a product that simplifies and improves your life. The card replacement device previously announced they had hit their… Read More

December 17, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wareness.io Will Focus on Crowdfunding Hardware Startups, May also Provide Up to $6 Million in Investment Capital for Entrepreneurs. Vijay Chattha, the founder of Silicon Valley and New York based marketing firm VSC, has announced the launch of Wareness.io, a new studio division of VSC… Read More

December 16, 2013 @ 11:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UK-based GoGetFunding examined over 12,000 campaigns and over 1.4 million data points taken from their crowdfunding platform in an effort to better educate current and future crowdfunders on how to be successful. Some interesting data from the effort includes… Campaigns with consistent marketing efforts net… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 2:30 am By JD Alois  |  

GoCarShare is a startup company based in London that is a “marketplace for empty car seats”.  The concept was driven by need from founder Drummond Gilbert.  He was roaming about West London and noticed that almost every car had only one person in it.  It… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 6:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo hosted a first of a series of training sessions today using Google Hangouts.  John Trigonis, Indiegogo’s film specialist, guided this Hangout which featured Adam Poswolsky who crowdfunded Featuring Adam Poswolsky, a crowdfunder who raised funds for Quarter Life Breakthrough a book for millennials about his quarter-life… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 12:35 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Recently Etta Devine answered the following open-ended question on Quora: What are some tips for creating a successful Kickstarter project? Her answer was great. Even future Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler gave it a thumbs up. Devine raised over $30,000 on a goal of just $6,000 for… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo has scheduled a series of Google Hangouts focusing on crowdfunding campaign tips.  Today’s Hangout, which takes place at 11AM PST (2PM EST) will be hosted by John Trigonis the Indiegogo team Film expert.  Each 45 Minute session will be followed by Q&A so ask… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 12:18 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Did I ever mention I love Quora? I especially love Yancey Strickler’s presence on Quora, where he occasionally answers questions from the crowd regarding his crowdfunding platform – Kickstarter – and some of their practices and inner-workings. This week he answered the question of why… Read More

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

In an effort to connect crowdfunders with service providers that can help projects succeed, crowdfunding platform Indiegogo is launching a new platform called Indiegogo Playbook. Indiegogo is currently encouraging support campaigners to sign up for inclusion on the forthcoming site. The crowdfunding industry is exploding,… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Reddit has donated ad space to 250 crowdfunding projects via an initiative that was launched yesterday. Space was taken up within 24 hours. 250 campaigns will be allowed to participate in the initiative with each receiving 100,000 donated ad impressions on the Reddit homepage. This… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As a co-founder of FundersClub, Boris Silver knows a thing or two about startups and raising money. The crowdfunding platform has facilitated over $10 million in funding for startups to date. FundersClub is only open to accredited investors. Companies that have secured funding via FundersClub… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 3:37 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BackerKit is an online service aimed at streamlining the process of Kickstarter campaign fulfillment after a successful raise. The team @ BackerKit graciously shared the following post with Crowdfund Insider. The post lays out a “hacker’s guide to crowdfunding” and gives tips on things like how… Read More