Tagged: kickstarter

July 21, 2013 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

[new_royalslider id=”4″] Fashion is another area being impacted by the disruptive innovation of crowdfunding. These 9 campaigns are the most successful fashion crowdfunding campaigns to date from Kickstarter. Have a crowdfunding offering you’d like to share? Submit an offering for consideration using our Submit a… Read More

July 20, 2013 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

The Veronica Mars Movie Project which raised over $5.7 Million on Kickstarter from over 91 thousand supporters has taken another step in project completion in releasing the movie trailer in conjunction with an appearance at Comic Con. The entire Veronica Mars crew made an appearance… Read More

July 19, 2013 @ 10:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A Palo Alto engineering firm, Electric Motor Werks, has a campaign on Kickstarter that is fully funded. The big reward? A low-cost electric vehicle charging station promising Our group leader, Valery Miftakhov, has a PhD in Physics from Princeton University and 10+ years of business… Read More

July 19, 2013 @ 9:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA or FOY-ah) is a US law dating back to the Lyndon B. Johnson administration that facilitates the disclosure of information. The law is designed to hold the US government accountable for disclosing information. Additionally, it outlines the consequences of… Read More

July 18, 2013 @ 10:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Below are the videos currently scheduled to be screened at the 3rd Annual Kickstarter Film Festival.   [new_royalslider id=”3″]

July 18, 2013 @ 9:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter will be presenting their 3rd Annual Kickstarter Film Fest in Brooklyn next month.  Scheduled for Saturday, August 3rd starting at 7PM and running until Mid-night or so.  The event is free for the public and will include a selection of some of their favorite… Read More

July 18, 2013 @ 12:07 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Ouya has announced the creation of a $1 million fund to encourage game developers to create games exclusive to the Ouya. Ouya famously raised $8.5 million on Kickstarter before accepting $15 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins. The $1 million fund will be used to… Read More

July 18, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Eone Timepieces has launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking $40,000 in funding for a tactile watch designed for (and with the help of) the blind. Just about a week into the campaign, funding for “The Bradley” timepiece has already crossed $250,000. Eone Timepieces was founded by Hyungsoo… Read More

July 17, 2013 @ 11:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Any platform carrying a goal of taking market share from Kickstarter is going to have a long road ahead, but that is precisely what JumpStartCity hopes to accomplish. They’re reaching out to their network of followers and fans to build a larger social reach in… Read More

July 16, 2013 @ 10:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could Kickstarter play a major role in kicking off the “personal interplanetary space age?” You could make a coherent argument that it already has, especially considering the visibility garnered by the recently funded ARKYD space telescope project. However, a lesser known predecessor of the ARKYD… Read More

July 15, 2013 @ 10:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

479 backers can and should be proud. They had a major hand in achieving a goal that stood unmet for 30 years. That goal is called the Sikorsky Prize, and it is centered around a seemingly simply goal: make a human-powered helicopter fly for 60… Read More

July 15, 2013 @ 9:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Time is valuable, and trust that I wouldn’t say this if I weren’t serious: This is a must-watch video. Why? It isn’t every day you see Perry Chen speaking this candidly about Kickstarter’s ethos and history. Better yet, it isn’t every day you see Michael… Read More

July 14, 2013 @ 11:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, “Citizen Koch”. a film directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, has surpassed their crowdfunding goal of $75,000 with plenty of time left on their crowdfunding campaign. The project currently stands at over $105,000 pledged by over 2000 supporters. “Citizen Koch” is… Read More

July 12, 2013 @ 8:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Data storage device Plug, launched by Cloud Guys Corporation (CGC) a US / French start-up met their crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter of $69,000 in 12 hours and now stands at over $186,000.  In a strategic act of successful pretail, Plug has proven an interest and… Read More

July 11, 2013 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pebble Holding an AMA on Reddit today at 3PM EST Eric Migicovsky and Team Pebble posted an update on their Kickstarter update page sharing they have registered over 275,000 Pebbles being pre-ordered since they launched their now famous crowdfunding campaign.  This number includes the 190,000… Read More

July 11, 2013 @ 11:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This is pretty amazing. A backer of Zach Braff’s Kickstarter campaign for his new movie “Wish I Was Here” managed to get the actor and director to help him propose to his girlfriend. Matt Hulbert created a video for his girlfriend Janice, and the video… Read More

July 11, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In crowdfunding you learn something new every day. For example, did you know that spent coffee grounds can be used to absorb smells? So well, in fact, that scientists at the City College of New York have explored the use of spent, carbonized coffee in… Read More

July 11, 2013 @ 10:13 am By Charles Luzar  |  

With 24 hours left in the campaign the +POOL seems certain to be fully funded, needing just a few thousand dollars to reach a goal of $250K. The +POOL project promises a pool that will float in the Hudson river, clean the river water and… Read More

July 8, 2013 @ 10:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This release was submitted to Crowdfund Insider and republished in its entirety. Scott Conditt is an Arizona-based filmmaker launching a documentary about Kickstarter project creators. A project titled “Kickstarted: Documenting the Crowdfunding Revolution” recently received funding through the premiere crowd-funding entity itself, Kickstarter.com. Indie-film and crowd-funding enthusiast… Read More

July 7, 2013 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Video game Star Citizen, created by Chris Roberts and his Roberts Space Industries (RSI), is ready to surpass $14 Million raised.  This crowdfunding campaign has the potential to be the single largest campaign ever and already stands in the top crowdfunding campaings to take place… Read More