Tagged: indiegogo

December 10, 2013 @ 12:11 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The separation of church and state is a contentious topic here in the United States, and a crowdfunding campaign launched by a spokesperson for the Satanic Temple seeks to prove a point by crowdfunding a monument to go alongside an existing Ten Commandments monument in… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Representatives of Indiegogo spent a  portion of this past year traipsing across Canada spreading the crowdfunding gospel and meeting a lot of very cool people.  Ayah Norris who leads marketing in Canada has put together a brief video where they asked “some of their favorite… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 10:38 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This short video from The Guardian features Indiegogo’s Danae Ringelmann. In the video, she discusses Indiegogo’s approach to building what she calls a “gatekeeper-free crowdfunding system,” which is almost certainly a bit of a jab at compatriot platform Kickstarter. Kickstarter takes a curational approach to crowdfunding whereas… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 9:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In an effort to connect crowdfunders with service providers that can help projects succeed, crowdfunding platform Indiegogo is launching a new platform called Indiegogo Playbook. Indiegogo is currently encouraging support campaigners to sign up for inclusion on the forthcoming site. The crowdfunding industry is exploding,… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo has shared their totals for their #GivingTuesday campaign.  The global crowdfunding platform has raised over $1.3 Million (the total stands at over $1.5 Million today) from over 250 campaigns from 43 different countries.  First Giving have $1000 to the top three #GivingTuesday campaigns which… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 11:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jason Berry makes films to pay the bills, but in his free time he enjoys running and cycling. His experience in that space may spur him to the creation of a company aimed at solving a major (and common) ill in sports. Safety pins are… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Thomas Dodson of Selvage media, along with his team, is crowdfunding on Indiegogo to empower young people to avoid the dangers of social media.  We have all read the stories – or know someone – who has suffered from cyber bullying or digital exploitation via… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Quartz | 2014 is the year of the internet of things—no, seriously, we mean it this time The “Internet of Things” movement is alive and growing and Quartz predicts that things will really take off in 2014. Of course, crowdfunding stands to be front and center… Read More

December 8, 2013 @ 11:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Education is an area ripe for disruption.  Even the  godfather of the concept of “disruptive innovation”, Clayton Christensen, has written a book on how the way we learn does not always fit with the way we are taught.  The team at Tinyworld wants to change… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 4:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

As PBS MediaShift continues to focus on crowdfunding this week, The Mediatwits held a Google+ Hangout with various players from the crowdfunding space. They include… Slava Rubin, Indiegogo CEO Ernst-Jan Pfauth of news magazine De Correspondent Todd Ruppert, co-producer of the upcoming musical “Happy Days” Zak Piper, co-producer… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 11:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on an Indiegogo campaign for The Young Turks that had succeeded in meeting a $250,000 goal on Indiegogo. The goal of the campaign is to crowdfund a new studio for a program touted as “the largest online news show in the world.”… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Coming from our friends in Australia (Glen Innes to be exact) is a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo which raised 50% of its goal in only 8 hours.   SmarterPlay, created by Australian entrepreneur Brendon Watson plays music from a mobile phone to any FM stereo. For… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 9:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Misfit Wearables has raised $15.2 million in a round led by Horizons Ventures. According to an article in TechCrunch, all previous investors in Misfit Wearables also participated in the round. It’s a big vote of confidence for this emergent wearable tech company from Silicon Valley…. Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 8:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Skulpt Aim, a device to measure body fat and muscle quality, has hurdled their $100,000 goal on Indiegogo with more than 30 days remaining in their crowdfunding campaign.   Supporters from 32 different countries supported the unique device.  Expectations are for the first Skulpt’s to… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 9:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hits $100,000 Crowdfunding Goal Immediately. Bill Draper, along with his family, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in support of the Parkinson’s Insitute and Clinical Center.  The fundraising initiative which is part of the #GivingTuesday effort on Indiegogo, has greatly benefited from the promise… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 1:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Slava Rubin, Indiegogo Co-Founder and CEO, talks crowdfunding on Bloomberg Surveillance today, specifically he comments on the opportunity with equity crowdfunding. Slava has spoken about Indiegogo’s interest in popular or retail crowdfunding before in the past. This has to do with “Title III” of the… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 10:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Adam Chapnick is a high-energy evangelist at Indiegogo, and he was recently featured on an episode of the Innovation Crush podcast. The hour-long interview gives some really interesting insight into topics like the early days of Indiegogo and how the platform formed. Chapnick also shares… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 2:08 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We’re growing increasingly fond of Quora as a resource for crowdfunding tips and insights from the likes of future Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler and Yan Budman, Director of Marketing at Indiegogo. Here are a selection of Quora questions and answers we found interesting this week…… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Tellspec Handheld Scanner Allows You to Know What’s in Your Food. Crowdfunding on Indiegogo, Tellspec food scanner set a goal of raising $100,000 on October 2nd but closed on November 30th having raised $386,692 from 1765 backers.  Having quickly raised the initial $100,000 the campaign… 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