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September 9, 2013 @ 10:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

An interesting question was posed on Quora regarding the use of crowdfunding for funding ongoing projects, or projects that may have recurring funding needs. In my answer I referred to a couple of interesting examples where crowdfunding project creators have come back to Kickstarter multiple… Read More

September 9, 2013 @ 2:01 am By JD Alois  |  

The Digital Shoreditch project Million Pound Startup closed for entries recently and the final tally lists entries from 72 countries representing participation from 304 cities for a total of 1047 startup companies.  Each of these companies is in the running to move to London to… Read More

September 7, 2013 @ 1:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Retirement Industry Trust Association (RITA) is hosting a  self-directed IRA event for financial advisers and other interested parties on October 21st to 22nd 2013 in Austin.  One of the most important topics on their agenda is an update on crowdfunding and impact this new financial… Read More

September 7, 2013 @ 12:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Quora is quickly becoming one of my favorite social networks, and it’s because of little nuggets like this from Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler. He explains that crowdfunders should be careful with how they ask for money on sites like Kickstarter. In the crowdfunding world, the… Read More

September 6, 2013 @ 11:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

David S. Rose is CEO of Gust, a service that aims to work with equity crowdfunding platforms in order to “help integrate them into the larger angel/venture Accredited Investor financing ecosystem.” He’s also very active on Quora, with over 9,500 followers and 1,800 answers. Rose… Read More

September 6, 2013 @ 7:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Valley based VC Taskforce, an organization working to enhance collaboration in the venture community, has announced their “Crowdfunding Series”, scheduled to launch on September 18, 2013.  The new programs will focus on the new world of crowdfunding, using equity, debt or pre-sale dollars. Founded in… Read More

September 5, 2013 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dragon Innovation hardware crowdfunding platform earlier announced their site had gone live with multiple hardware projects followed the release with a note indicating they were broadening their services further by collaborating with Qualcomm Atheros.  This additional partnership will help facilitate clients growing need to integrate… Read More

September 5, 2013 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Bloomberg Tradebook & Capital Connections Crowdfunding Event on September 9th. Bloomberg Tradebook is joining the crowdfunding rush by hosting an evening event next week on Monday, September 9th, 2013.  The gathering will take place at Bloomberg LP.  The presentation will discuss: Crowdfunding platforms, review some… Read More

September 4, 2013 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Protos Eyewear, currently running a self crowdfunding campaign using CrowdHoster, has developed a Wordpress widget which allows users to follow crowdfunding progress for their Kickstarter campaign on their web site.  Protos’ current crowdfunding campaign is for their 3D printed custom glasses. Protos created the wordpress… Read More

September 4, 2013 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Massolution NYC 2013: Crowd Powered Business: How LEGO Powers a Billion Dollar Empire with Crowdsourcing. Massolution, a research firm specializing in the crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industries, has announced  that Troels Lange Andersen, Head of Community Business at LEGO, will be keynoting its inaugural conference – Massolution… Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

A wide group of champion skiers which include Olympic medalists among their ranks have joined together to launch a crowdfunding campaign to complete development of Ski Nation; a skier network and mobile application which they hope to launch in time for the 2014 Winter Olympics…. Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

In just over two months Scottish brewery BrewDog has raised £3 Million on Goal of £4 Million.  Crowdfunding Round Closes in January. Craft brewery BrewDog started in 2007 with just 2 employees and a dream.  The firm was driven by two young fearless entrepreneurs determined… Read More

September 1, 2013 @ 11:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Chris Roberts Sets New Stretch Goals of $18 & $19 Million. Stands as Most Successful Crowdfunding Campaign Ever. We just recently covered Star Citizen and their ongoing crowdfunding campaign as they had just passed $16 Million raised and now they have surpassed the next milestone… Read More

August 31, 2013 @ 9:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Add SunFunder to the list of crowdfunding platforms using the Balanced Payments platform for their investment transactions.  SunFunder announced the shift from PayPal to the Y-Combinator backed payments and escrow platform on their site this past week. Crowdfund Insider recently covered the unique payment platform… Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 11:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Update: Since publishing, KIND* Shave Oil has changed its name to TICO* Shave Oil, and can now be found at www.ticoshaving.com. KIND shave oil is crowdfunding an alternative to shaving cream.  Shaving is not something I have ever looked forward to doing.  But then I happened to… Read More

August 26, 2013 @ 9:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Owlet “Smart Sock” Monitors Your Baby’s Vital Signs, Connects to iPhone App. Founded by Kurt Workman, Owlet Baby Care Home has created the a baby “smart sock” that transmits a child’s heart rate, oxygen levels, skin temperature, sleep quality, and sleep position (rollover alerts) to… Read More

August 26, 2013 @ 9:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier this month we brought you the story of Precinct, a video game that had a cancelled Kickstarter campaign to its name. The team behind the game had turned to Wordpress crowdfunding plugin IgnitionDeck in order to roll their own funding platform solution. The team… Read More

August 25, 2013 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Tile locator device successfully crowdfunded $2,681,297 using the self crowdfunding application “SelfStarter” becoming the most successfully self crowdfunded campaign ever. The crowdfunding campaign not only raised more than enough funds to fulfill the financing needs of the company but indicated a growing market interest… Read More

August 25, 2013 @ 12:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

In a span of less than a week, The Omate TrueSmart smartwatch has more than tripled a $100,000 crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter, further cementing Kickstarter as the place to crowdfund innovative tech products. The campaign seeks to fund a new watch that sports a few… Read More

August 24, 2013 @ 11:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdvance has announced a new feature on their crowdfunding platform that allows teams to raise funds in unison. Crowdvance will support parent and child fundraisers. Child fundraisers can launch standalone crowdfunding campaign pages that borrow some features from the parent page while still allowing the child fundraiser to… Read More