Tagged: crowd wisdom

April 9, 2014 @ 10:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

At this point, I’ll skip the process of reiterating HealBe’s disaster of an Indiegogo campaign in any detail. In short, HealBe launched a campaign for a device called the GoBe that promised to count calories burned during a workout by measuring glucose levels in the bloodstream…. Read More

April 7, 2014 @ 9:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve been keeping up with PandoDaily writer James Robinson’s (pictured) digging into HealBe’s Indiegogo campaign. It turns out that Robinson’s search is now leading him toward other Indiegogo campaigns seemingly with similar issues. A recent article dives into claims made during a campaign for the TellSpec, a device… Read More

December 30, 2013 @ 10:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In traveling the country and fielding numerous requests from project creators – both current and potential  – certain questions have a tendency to pop up time and time again. One question that I get surprisingly often: can I crowdfund anonymously? It was echoed in a… Read More

December 17, 2013 @ 10:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Canadian law firm Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) released a risk assessment for 2014. Crowdfunding makes the list at #2 on their list of the top ten business issues with legal implications for the new year. Entrepreneurs, access to capital and the crowd: The Canadian economy… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 11:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Rock smartwatch was able to garner almost $40,000 in pledges from crowdfunding backers before Kickstarter finally had to pull the plug on the campaign. The run-up to how that happened should strike fear into anyone looking to pull a fast one on the crowd…. Read More

November 10, 2013 @ 12:38 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Like a lot of people, I’m excited about crowdfunding, and specifically the crowdfunding of startups now that’s it’s legal in the US.Chris Dixon Chris Dixon is a prolific investor and has been a co-founder of multiple companies including Hunch and SiteAdvisor. He is currently an… Read More