Strategy

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

December 3, 2013 @ 2:08 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We’re growing increasingly fond of Quora as a resource for crowdfunding tips and insights from the likes of future Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler and Yan Budman, Director of Marketing at Indiegogo. Here are a selection of Quora questions and answers we found interesting this week…… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 9:38 am By Charles Luzar  |  

IgnitionDeck is an increasingly-popular Wordpress plugin aimed at powering crowdfunding campaigns. For prices starting at $79, crowdfunders can buy a license for IgnitionDeck and crowdfund on their own Wordpress-powered standalone web site, skipping the traditional success fees of popular crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter. IgnitionDeck is… Read More

November 27, 2013 @ 9:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The crowdfunding campaign for Play-i is in its final hours. The campaign launched seeking $250,000 to fund and prove a market for an interactive, cost-effective set of robots – named Bo and Yana – that would aid in teaching young children the basics of programming…. Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 11:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Soon-to-be Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler knows a thing or two about crowdfunding. Recently he took to Quora to answer the following question: what are common elements among unsuccessful Kickstarter campaigns? See his answer below… Read Quote of Yancey Strickler’s answer to Unsuccessful Kickstarter projects, what… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Stack  |  

Angel investing involves accredited investors (millionaires) investing directly in the private stock of early stage companies. Millionaires are rare—they make up 1.5% of the world and 4% of the US. As most entrepreneurs quickly learn, angels are very, very rare. Only 3% of all accredited… Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 11:47 am By Rose Spinelli  |  

Anybody who knows my work probably associates me with my regular yammerings about the importance of good storytelling to make your crowdfunding campaign memorable enough that others want to contribute or share it. A good story may not be enough to take you to the… Read More