Tagged: google

January 6, 2014 @ 8:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The thingCHARGER is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo and it is on an absolute roll. The device has crossed the half-million dollar threshold with a week left in the campaign. So why is the device doing so well? As with so many hardware items in the… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

According to a recent article in AllThingsD, Lending Club and Google are rumored to be in discussions about making use of Google’s cash reserves to offer low-interest loans to Google Employees. Lending Club would facilitate the loans. The idea is that the ability to refinance… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Kiva Labs to Generate $25 Million in Crowdfunded Loans for Clean Energy, Mobile Technology, and Agriculture Google has awarded Kiva a Global Impact Award.  Google gives these awards to entrepreneurs who think on a global scale and have healthy disregard for the impossible. Kiva, a… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Misfit Wearables launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in November of last year for the Misfit Shine, a wearable activity tracker that aimed to compete with other stalwarts in the space like offerings from Nike and Fitbit. The campaign raised over $800,000, which makes it… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 11:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

TubeStart recently announced the addition of Google Analytics functionality that will allow crowdfunders using their platform to track their campaign activity using one of the world’s most popular free analytics suites. You can track traffic to your campaign page, see where visitors are coming from,… Read More

November 27, 2013 @ 9:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The crowdfunding campaign for Play-i is in its final hours. The campaign launched seeking $250,000 to fund and prove a market for an interactive, cost-effective set of robots – named Bo and Yana – that would aid in teaching young children the basics of programming…. Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 12:24 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Lending Club has appointed two indivials to their advisory board: Michael S. Barr, law professor at the University of Michigan and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and at the Brookings Institution, and senior Google executive Jeff Huber. Barr served from 2009-2010 as the U.S. Department… Read More

October 28, 2013 @ 10:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

New York tech manufacturer Omate raised over $1 million from fervent Kickstarter backers for their forthcoming water-resistant smartwatch for active lifestyles. Over 4,300 backers pledged funds to the campaign. Part of the allure for at least some in the crowd was that the watch was… Read More

October 14, 2013 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Fairly recently I encountered a Japanese crowdfunding portal which I discovered due to the unique nature of a crowdfunding campaign they were operating.  Intrigued about the site, I reached out to the operators for some more insight and background on their platform. Countdown is owned… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 5:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Omate TrueSmart came under fire recently following a post on Google Plus that explained problems with the form factor of the device and promises the device’s manufacturers had made regarding the inclusion of the Google Play store. The TrueSmart has a week left until… Read More

September 8, 2013 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lima – which was previously called “Plug”-  closed today on Kickstarter having crowdfunded an amazing $1,229,074 with the support of almost thirteen thousand backers.  The device had an original goal of $69,000 which seems paltry in retrospect. The Kickstarter project had to alter the name… Read More

July 22, 2013 @ 10:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

According to recent data from video game industry analyst NPD, Ouya sold 13,000 to 19,000 units via retail sales channels in the month of June. That does not include any units sold on their website or the units shipped to Kickstarter backers. 19,000 units isn’t… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 6:04 pm By SeekingAlpha  |  

Since 2006, P2P & online lending have enjoyed explosive growth. Lending Club and Prosper, America’s two largest P2P lenders have now surpassed $2B in loan origination, and P2P has captured the attention of industry legends, the financial media, the investing public and even today’s technology… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 8:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google’s stake in Lending Club could signal future dominance of P2P and P2B lending in the crowdfunding space.

May 2, 2013 @ 10:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google has invested $125 million into peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club, placing a valuation of over $1.5 billion on the crowdfunding platform. The crowdfunding industry is abuzz, hailing this as a banner moment for crowdfunding stakeholders.

April 30, 2013 @ 7:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google has launched a crowdfunding app called “One Today” that adds a philanthropic crowdfunding layer on top of their Google Plus social network. I recently had a chance to try the app. Every day I get a notification on my phone for the day’s cause…. Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Chris Shaw, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Kansas City-based startup accelerator and business incubator Think Big Partners has been selected by Google to be a beta tester of its exclusive Glass hardware. Google selected only 8,000 people worldwide to be part of its Glass Explorers program, an… Read More