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January 25, 2013 @ 7:07 am By JD Alois  |  

A Crowdfunding Science event will be held by Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office. Titled “Crowdfunding Science: Appealing to the online community for research money” this event is scheduled to be held on January 29th. A brief description is below: With federal and state funding for science… Read More

January 23, 2013 @ 3:54 am By SiliconIndia  |  

Bangalore: As software developers around the country optimistically approach the new year and plan out budgets for building new products,  continued economic challenges are an unfortunate reality of the software industry. Crowdfunding with FundaGeek represents an excellent opportunity to supplement current funding sources for software… Read More

January 22, 2013 @ 6:17 pm By Develop  |  

Are crowdfunded projects being given a free ride away from criticism? Before I get into this, let me start by saying that Kickstarter has been a revelation for the game industry, and a positive one. Developers are able to get their niche projects off the… Read More

January 21, 2013 @ 7:52 pm By NYDailyNews  |  

Noha Waibsnaider is savoring success: sales at her eight-year-old Gowanus-based food company, Peeled Snacks, doubled last year. Her kid-friendly, organic dried fruit snacks, already carried at Starbucks, Whole Foods and Fairway, are now heading to groceries nationwide. But when Waibsnaider thought about raising money to… Read More

January 21, 2013 @ 1:03 am By ABC.net  |  

Kickstarter has become one of the main hubs on the internet for crowdfunding, raising almost US$320 million last year from over 2.2 million people around the world. The United States-based website recently published figures showing that 18,109 projects have been successfully funded, with supporters giving… Read More

January 20, 2013 @ 8:49 am By BusinessInsider  |  

If your startup is looking for an Angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of Angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. Or does it? Actually numbers and locations are just the beginning. The… Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 6:12 am By Xconomy  |  

Kickstarter helped pioneer crowdfunding for creative projects. It has been enormously successful. The Kickstarter model is to set a fundraising goal. If the project meets its goal, the money is transferred to the creators to fund the development of the project. Kickstarter collects a 5 percent fee, the… Read More

January 16, 2013 @ 6:06 pm By WRAL  |  

Raleigh residents won’t be paying for bike racks and other small endeavors after City Council members on Tuesday rejected a pilot program through which residents privately fund neighborhood projects. In a 4-4 vote, council members sidestepped the crowd-funding program operated by SeeClickFix, a mobile app… Read More

January 14, 2013 @ 1:13 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Sang Lee is CEO and Founder of Return on Change, an equity crowdfunding portal based in New York City. Recently he spoke at the Columbia University Business School about crowdfunding and shared some tips for entrepreneurs thinking about leveraging equity crowdfunding to access capital. His… Read More

January 12, 2013 @ 6:26 am By Forbes  |  

Our first post described the incipient rise of hacker culture inside large corporations, outlining four tactics for hacking. This post, our last in this series, elaborates on the fourth tactic, Prototype a Kickstarter Project (please download its PDF here; we’ll be talking around it). Here are the links… Read More

January 12, 2013 @ 5:31 am By BBC  |  

Power-up! PC gaming giant Valve confirms plans to make its own “Steam Box” console, and invests in hardware-maker Xi3. Special attack! The boss of Ouya, the crowdfunded Android console, meets games developers and accessory partners in Las Vegas just weeks before revealing her device’s launch… Read More

January 10, 2013 @ 8:58 pm By Jeff Jedras, itbusiness.ca  |  

A round-up of the top successful crowdfunding videos of 2012 offers some insight on what to do to get the cash. With 2013 expected to be the year of crowdfunding (at least according to our own Brian Jackson), more and more entrepreneurs will likely be… Read More

January 9, 2013 @ 6:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Here’s what you saw: In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Oprah to announce that he was donating $100 million to Newark’s troubled school system. What you didn’t see were the behind-the-scenes machinations that come with such a huge gift. Some of those dealings and the spin involved… Read More

January 8, 2013 @ 6:32 am By Wired  |  

Over the past three years, I’ve spent a good deal of money on Kickstarter projects — mostly (but not exclusively) board games. I’ve grown pretty accustomed to getting updates about delays in delivering the rewards. For me, as a blogger and reviewer, I’m constantly receiving something in… Read More

January 8, 2013 @ 5:29 am By FastCompany  |  

With 3-D printing, makerspaces, and online forums about how to create hardware, it’s never been easier to create a new gadget. And crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter have made it easier than ever to fund a new gadget. But selling a new gadget? Still pretty… Read More

January 4, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

I recently had the chance to send some questions along to Stephen Temes, co-founder of EarlyShares.com.  I found his top reasons why entrepreneurs may want to consider crowdfunding when it comes to raising capital. His four key reasons are as follows: Alternative Access to Capital “Given… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 2:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Like a hangover from 2012, there is a growing and potentially painful misconception that if you just toss an idea up on a crowdfunding website, money will come running after it. Or the belief that contributors stay up all night scouring the internet for projects… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 1:01 am By Daily Herald  |  

If you’ve been hoping banks will loosen their loan purse strings, Mike Moebs says 2013 may be your year. But, Moebs adds, bankers will make up for continuing low loan rates with higher fees and compensating balances, and risk will be a big part of… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 11:58 am By Ariel Hyatt, Music Think Tank  |  

Over the last several months, I’ve been helping Ariel to prepare for the launch of her crowd funding campaign (which went live on Monday!). While we were doing our research, we came across article after article saying the same few things about crowd funding preparation… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 10:21 am By Oskar Kalmaru, PandoDaily  |  

On November 30, Sweden’s Memoto closed a month-long Kickstarter campaign that raised $550,000 to manufacture a lifelogging wearable camera. Last week, we published astory about Memoto and the implications of its camera. Here, we present a guest post from Memoto co-founder Oskar Kalmaru in which he… Read More