Strategy

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

December 27, 2012 @ 4:13 pm By Hypebot  |  

2012 was a big year for music crowdfunding. Though crowdfunding isn’t new, this year was marked by a general buildout of the music crowdfunding space from new services to wide ranging campaigns, outstanding crowdfunding campaigns on the parts of musicians with powerful fanbases and the notable emergence of concert crowdfunding as a… Read More

December 25, 2012 @ 1:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Douglas E. Castle, the Chief Executive Officer of CrowdFunding Incubator LLC (“CFI”), predicts a substantial shakeup in the crowdfunding industry in 2013. The disruption will begin where both project promoters and contributors, who have been only remotely involved with the projects which they have helped… Read More

December 25, 2012 @ 9:14 am By NYTimes  |  

PARIS — In the early rush to turn crowd-funding online into a new source of public revenue to buy everything from medieval ivory statues in France to a gallery for dinosaur bones in Canada there’s a cautionary tale: It doesn’t always work. The Louvre is… Read More

December 23, 2012 @ 2:26 pm By Four Hour Work Week  |  

I first met Mike Del Ponte two years ago when he was running marketing at BranchOut, a startup I advise. Before joining BranchOut, Mike had explored a variety of career paths, including preparing for the priesthood at Yale Divinity School and serving as a peacemaker in the West… Read More

December 20, 2012 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Series A crunch boils down to this: Too many seed fundings, too few follow-on A financings. In other words, excessive supply and limited demand. So if you want to get your arms around the expected funding shortfall, do the math. That’s what CB Insights… Read More

December 20, 2012 @ 1:18 pm By Catherine Clifford, Entrepreneur  |  

The new crowdfunding law passed as part of the JOBS Act, which allows companies to sell pieces of their business for cash, won’t be finalized until early next year. But many entrepreneurs are already champing at the bit to deliver on the services they think this… Read More