Tagged: kickstarter

August 23, 2013 @ 2:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Add another Hollywood film to the credits of crowdfunding film,  Reach Me, a project by Director / Writer John Herzfeld launched this week on Kickstarter in an attempt to raise $250,000 to finish the already started film.  The project stars erstwhile action star Sylvester Stallone… Read More

August 23, 2013 @ 9:44 am By GigaOM  |  

You’re putting together a new piece of furniture when you realize you don’t have the right wrench. Your friend does though, so they fax it over. That’s the future promised by AIO Robotics‘ planned Zeus 3D printer, a combo printer and scanner expected to launch on… Read More

August 23, 2013 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Over 1600 backers helped to push animated film crowdfunding project “Art Story” over their $350,000 funding goal on Kickstarter during the campaigns final hours.  Creators and Disney Veterans, Aaron Blaise and Chuck Williams, launched a final push to crowdfund their dream and their request was rewarded as… Read More

August 22, 2013 @ 10:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. A smartwatch is raising ridiculous sums of cash in short order on Kickstarter. The Omate TrueSmart is on an absolute tear. Since launching yesterday, the campaign has raised well over the stated $100,000 goal. The crowd loves the concept… Read More

August 21, 2013 @ 9:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

On September 1, 2012, Jamie Siminoff closed a successful Kickstarter campaign for the POP Charging Station. The POP was to be a multifunctional charging station that could power multiple smart devices. 1,000 backers pledged just short of $140,000 to the campaign. At the time, he… Read More

August 19, 2013 @ 9:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A small, albeit interesting, Monday morning blurb: Neil Singh is now an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Arizona, defending the state against civil lawsuits in state and federal courts. Who is Neil Singh? He took the crowdfunding world by storm after pursuing legal… Read More

August 19, 2013 @ 9:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Spike Lee recently posted the following video thanking Jesus and thanking the supporters of his now fully-funded Kickstarter campaign. A word of advice from Spike: Bet on the mule. It’s an obvious reference to some of his campaign’s detractors. He goes on to say that any… Read More

August 17, 2013 @ 5:33 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We previously reported on Citizen Koch, a documentary aiming to explore the interplay between money and politics in the United States. In order to stake a claim to a digital copy of the upcoming film, backers had to pony up $75. Backer Nick Guillaume expressed his… Read More

August 17, 2013 @ 11:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Spike Lee can start celebrating. He just surpassed a $1.25 million goal on Kickstarter for his new film, which as of now is still shrouded in a bit of mystery. It’s about love and it’s about blood, but in the words of Lee “The reason… Read More

August 15, 2013 @ 11:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Two campaigns crowdfunding now aim to fund projects that use bioluminescent microbes to light the home. One is called the Biobulb, and it is seeking $15,000 on RocketHub. Three Wisconsin University undergraduate students launched the project as part of the Frontier Fellows program at the… Read More

August 14, 2013 @ 10:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter cofounder Yancey Strickler recently took to the Kickstarter blog to express his concern over the ever-increasing use of stretch goals in rewards-based crowdfunding. Stretch goals are funding goals set outside the scope of the primary funding goal. For example, a video game might have… Read More

August 13, 2013 @ 12:37 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Despite being razzed by Trish Regan on live TV and catching flack from others, Spike Lee has successfully raised over $1 million on Kickstarter for his new film. His campaign seems on track to hit his $1.25 million goal by the time the campaign ends in… Read More

August 11, 2013 @ 10:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In one of the more bizarre things I’ve seen covering the wonderful world of crowdfunding, a video promoting a Kickstarter campaign features a very naked Lady Gaga. Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović was the subject of a documentary entitled The Artist Is Present, which followed her… Read More

August 8, 2013 @ 6:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

The 3rd Annual Kickstarter Film Fest was held this past week and reports from Kickstarter show it was an incredible success.  The event held in Brooklyn under the shadow of the Williamsburg bridge was a gather filled with music, film and much fun by all… Read More

August 8, 2013 @ 4:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Free Your Body” is the mantra for the “meal replacement” mix Soylent which has caught the attention and imagination of thousands of supporters fascinated about the thought of being able to not worry about food.  Soylent may now free themselves from financing their product as… Read More

August 7, 2013 @ 6:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Precinct was a video game crowdfunding on Kickstarter. I say “was” because the campaign has since been shut down after the project creators realized that there was little hope of the campaign meeting its funding goal. Now the team has rolled their own crowdfunding solution… Read More

August 7, 2013 @ 8:06 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based Tribesports, a sport enthusiast social website with over 200,000 members, will leverage their reach, create community driven high quality sportswear line.  One of the world’s largest communities of sports enthusiasts has launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at disrupting the $250 billion global sportswear industry. Tribesports, home… Read More

August 6, 2013 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Spike Lee is making headlines again regarding his currently-running campaign on Kickstarter. Yesterday he was interviewed by BET and one of the subjects at hand was his recent tiff with CNBC pundit Trish Regan, who led an interview with Lee by alluding to criticisms he… Read More

August 6, 2013 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Michigan based Hybra Advance Technology (Hybra) has experienced early success with its crowdfunding campaign for the company’s new product, Sound Band, a wireless headset that does not use speakers.  The campaigns goal was to raise $175,000 on Kickstarter which was quickly surpassed – in just… Read More

August 5, 2013 @ 2:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter just announced that their campaign creation process is open to Canadian project creators. Project creators can begin building their campaigns by starting their project here and selecting Canada as the country of origin during the process. Canadian campaigns will be able to go live… Read More