Strategy

April 23, 2013 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The TABB Group recently published a research report entitled, Capital Reformation: Alternative Financing and the Fate of Intermediaries,  part of this report discussed the emerging industry of crowdfunding and its impact on the finance industry in general. “Wall Street is No Longer a Protected Class”… Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 8:27 am By Huffington Post  |  

If you’re doing it right, it’s the toughest job you’ll ever take on. You’ll feel anxious, elated, irritated, grateful, frustrated, righteous and exhausted. You’ll spend double shifts at the computer, Facebooking, Tweeting, sending out news releases and answering backer’s queries. There will be hair pulling,… Read More

April 21, 2013 @ 7:17 am By The Dispatch  |  

Greenland’s ice sheet is melting fast, and Jason Box can’t wait for a government research grant to get him there. To fund his 24th expedition, Box, a climatologist at the Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen, is trying something new.Crowdfunding. Box, who had… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 1:08 am By PandoDaily  |  

Welcome to a new era of crowdfunding, where the “crowd” part is more important than the “funding.” Before “smartwatch” became a household term, the makers of the Pebble watch had been rejected, repeatedly, by investors. When the project’s Kickstarter campaign exploded, VCs were suddenly desperate… Read More

April 19, 2013 @ 1:41 pm By Forbes  |  

I have a rock and roll band. It’s called Black Hi-Lighter. Right now, we’re halfway through a rite of passage: the Kickstarter campaign. The first rule of how not to fail at Kickstarter is: Please pledge your support! Or, in other words, start shameless. Ours is a… Read More

April 17, 2013 @ 5:27 pm By Village Voice  |  

Howdy Fan, Over the past five years my band has built up a modest fan base that largely includes all the wonderful people we have met in the process, and is bankrolled mostly by our three day jobs. We just released our second album on… Read More

April 17, 2013 @ 7:47 am By The Calgary Herald  |  

There is a fundamental shift in how companies are expected to engage their target audiences, and the majority of organizations aren’t connecting or engaging Millennials. Why is this important? By 2014, 36 percent of the workforce will be comprised of this generation and by 2020,… Read More

April 11, 2013 @ 11:57 pm By Ryan Caldbeck  |  

At CircleUp, an equity crowdfunding site, we accept fewer than 2% of the companies who apply to raise capital on our platform. While there are a myriad of reasons why we pass on companies, one that always pokes its head up is valuation—that is, we are pessimistic that… Read More

April 11, 2013 @ 9:12 am By Turnstyle News  |  

Last April, I took up running again after an absence of over 15 years. Turns out I’m not nearly as fast as I used to be. Still, a month ago I decided to run a half marathon to raise money for rescue animals and learned exactly why… Read More

April 9, 2013 @ 4:13 pm By NBC Chicago  |  

Kickstarter-mania has officially come to the City of Chicago. World Business Chicago and the mayor’s office has announced Tuesday morning they plan to team up to form Seed Chicago, “Chicago’s first curated Kickstarter page which will use crowdfunding to grow businesses and create jobs in… Read More

April 9, 2013 @ 4:25 am By Gamasutra  |  

It was a small story we ran just before GDC that kind of flew under the radar, so you’d all be forgiven (minus Kris, who authored the thing) for missing that a game just got funded through equity crowdfunding. That is to say, rather than through… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 10:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, has surpassed their stated $1 Million goal on Kickstarter by raising just shy of $2 Million via support from over 22,000 backers.  This comes soon after the most money raised by a video game was announced as Torment: Tides of… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 9:30 pm By BostonGlobe  |  

When Gary Sohmers launched his 30-day Kickstarter campaign, he was optimistic about raising the $22,000 needed to fund his creation: video technology that lets a fan witness a celebrity sign a personalized autograph. But in late March, with 41 hours left and only $830 raised,… Read More

April 6, 2013 @ 5:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Two weeks after its successful launch, Crowd Supply has announced an innovative early payment policy for project creators. Crowd Supply, which launched on March 20 and saw over $40,000 worth of project backing in its first week, will release backer funding to project creators as… Read More

April 5, 2013 @ 11:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding due diligence platform Crowdcheck has scheduled a gathering in Washington DC to discuss the possible risks to securities Crowdfunding. The event is featuring keynote speaker US Senator Mark Warner (D – Virginia). Entitled Fraud and Red Tape: Risks to the Potential of Securities Crowdfunding… Read More

April 4, 2013 @ 3:49 pm By Wired  |  

Say you finished your Kickstarter campaign for some product or other, and after the inevitable growing pains, you’ve gotten all the rewards out to your backers who are gleefully emailing you to say what a great thing it is that you’ve built. What’s next? You… Read More

April 4, 2013 @ 10:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently became aware of a patent filing service from Christie Street, a crowdfunding platform that specializes in inventions and bringing new products to market. It makes a lot of sense. Christie Street’s slogan is “Supporting Inventors, Protecting Buyers.” One of the most contentious aspects… Read More

April 3, 2013 @ 6:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Correspondent, an Amsterdam based start-up striving to launch a news site of quality news, has crowdfunded € 1 Million in 8 Days (approximately $1.3 Million).  As announced on the future news sites blog, More than 15,000 participants supported this crowdfunding event which was created by Rob… Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Wired  |  

The Elevation Dock was one of Kickstarter’s first million-dollar projects and is now one of the first products on new crowdfunding marketplace Outgrow.me. Y Combinator, the premier startup launchpad, held its latest demo day this week, with crowdfunding as one of the big themes with… Read More

March 31, 2013 @ 9:39 am By The Economist  |  

DAVE KELLETT and Fred Schroeder set out to shoot a documentary about the art of cartooning. In the process, however, the film, called “Stripped”, turned into a story about the disruptive and often positive effect of the internet on comic strips. Mr Kellett, meanwhile, turned… Read More