Tagged: indiegogo

December 29, 2013 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

TinyWorld, the social e-learning platform that wants to innovate the process of learning a second language beat their $50,000 goal on Monday, December 23, 2013.  With less than three days in the campaign on Indiegogo the project has set their stretch goal of hurdling $75,000…. Read More

December 28, 2013 @ 1:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A woman from Vancouver, British Columbia recently took to Indiegogo to raise funds for a trip to Iran. Alaleh Sahabi was able to reconnect with her mother through Facebook and wanted to fly back to Iran to see her for the first time in over 20… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 12:02 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We brought you the story of Light Harmonic’s newest crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo back in November. The campaign aimed to raise $38,000 to bring the Geek Pulse to market. It was the second crowdfunding campaign for Light Harmonic. The company raised over $300,000 on Kickstarter… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bigger does not always mean better but we all find high profile, big money crowdfunding campaigns interesting and of note.  They may act as a barometer for new products, or services, and can distill future industry trends. The top rewards campaign for 2013, the Veronica… Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 9:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

For many reasons crowdfunding smartwatches has been a hot crowdfunding category for 2012 – 2013.  Wearable technology is going to be huge and everyone knows it.  While Samsung has released their Galaxy Watch to much fanfare, the Samsung smartwatch was widely panned by the technorati…. Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 7:42 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

With 40 days left in their Indiegogo campaign, wearable device technology startup Atheer has raised over $70,000 of a stated $100,000 goal for their innovative spin on 3D glasses. The consumer-level variant is called the Atheer One, and the feature set promised by the team… Read More

December 21, 2013 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yep you read that correctly.  Shave with caffeine. Crowdfunding on Indiegogo now from the Pacific Shaving Company is Caffeinated Shaving Cream along with Caffeinated After Shave.  The campaign goal has already been trounced with almost a month left in the campaign.  Over 200 backers have… Read More

December 21, 2013 @ 2:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo Founder and CEO Slava Rubin appeared on Fox Business recently to discuss the recently-proposed rules for Regulation A+. Due to equity crowdfunding’s cap (set at $1 million) and Regulation A+’s logical “floor” of $5 million, there is a gap. Regulation A+ arose from underutilization… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 12:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rewards based global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has put together their list of stand-out crowdfunding campaigns for 2013.  Appropriately they have broken it out into 13 different categories which are listed below. From the biggest campaigns to the funniest pitch videos – they are all there… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Mike Mowery and Nikhil Potdar are with Outerloop Management, a company specializing in the management of bands, specifically hardcore and metal bands. Both have helped clients launch a handful of successful crowdfunding campaigns. They’ve increasingly been using Indiegogo as their platform of choice lately, which… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 9:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Congratulations are in order for Zach Braff and the team behind his Kickstarter-funded film Wish I Was Here. The film will premiere at 2014’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The festival is slated to take place between January 16-26, 2014. It isn’t the only… Read More

December 16, 2013 @ 11:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Krazy Jim’s Blimpyburger has been a staple in Ann Arbor, Michigan for decades. The burger joint has been feeding students at the University of Michigan since 1953. Current owners Rich and Chris Magner met while working at the restaurant in the 1970’s. It was even… Read More

December 15, 2013 @ 11:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Kreyos Meteor, the “Only smart watch with voice & gesture control”, originally had a rewards ship date of November 2013.  With November long gone and 2104 fast approaching some backers of the hot tech crowdfunding campaign have become frustrated by the delay. Back in… Read More

December 15, 2013 @ 2:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Indiegogo, Mars One Intends on Establishing Permanent Human Settlement. There have been plenty of fascinating space technology and exploration campaigns crowdfunded on various platforms.  Now we have a Private Mission to Mars which is scheduled to launch in 2018. This project out of… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 11:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at Le Web this week that Canonical has found a hardware partner. This means that Ubuntu Touch OS will be coming to smartphones soon, and Canonical will begin the long uphill climb of snagging marketshare from industry stalwarts like Google’s… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s Crowdfund Bookie series periodically takes a peek at crowdfunding data for game-related campaign raising money on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Today they published the latest breakdown, and it shows that 186 projects on these two platforms raised $23,914,666 from over 500,000 backers. Mighty No. 9 tops… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 6:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo hosted a first of a series of training sessions today using Google Hangouts.  John Trigonis, Indiegogo’s film specialist, guided this Hangout which featured Adam Poswolsky who crowdfunded Featuring Adam Poswolsky, a crowdfunder who raised funds for Quarter Life Breakthrough a book for millennials about his quarter-life… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 12:54 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Andrew Gregory, Mike Saunders and Ben Everard produce a podcast called Linux Lifestyle. They were also all writers at Linux Format, a news source for Linux enthusiasts and those passionate about free software. Earlier this year the trio quit in order to bring a new publication… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 12:26 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Life Itself is a documentary film currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. It aims to document the life and times of Roger Ebert, the beloved film critic who passed away in April of this year. RELATED | On Indiegogo: Stars Align To Crowdfund Roger Ebert Documentary “Life… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo has scheduled a series of Google Hangouts focusing on crowdfunding campaign tips.  Today’s Hangout, which takes place at 11AM PST (2PM EST) will be hosted by John Trigonis the Indiegogo team Film expert.  Each 45 Minute session will be followed by Q&A so ask… Read More