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Campaign To Repair Muddy Waters’ Chicago Home Launched Thru Kickstarter

Once again a positive note for the Chicago landmark and home of Blues Legend, Muddy Waters. The house at 4339 S. Lake Park Ave. was Muddy’s home for twenty years. If you haven’t been following this story you may want to start at the beginning, here…. Read More

Why ProPublica turned to Kickstarter for intern investigation

At US investigative non-profit ProPublica, the public is able to be very much involved. In editorial, for example, the community is encouraged to feed into investigation research, supported by the launch of an online page centred on opportunities to ‘Get Involved’. And when it comes… Read More

A Project To Make Plants Glow Is Fueling Controversy

A Kickstarter campaign for The Glowing Plant project has stirred the debate over genetically modified organisms. Scientists are planning to use lab techniques to insert DNA that codes for glowing proteins from fireflies and bacteria into plants, so they glow. These glowing plants have been made before —… Read More

Memoto hands-on: Life-logging with Kickstarter’s wearable camera

Your every moment, documented. That’s the Memoto concept, a tiny wearable camera that snaps a shot every thirty seconds to digitally augment your memory. Early doubts as to whether enough people would want to record each waking moment were quickly squashed when the Memoto Kickstarter saw 11x the… Read More

Glowing Plant Stands at over $460,000 Raised in Final Hours

Initially targeted to raise $65,000, the break out success of the crowdfunding campaign  Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity on Kickstarter, now stands at over $460,000 raised by over 8000 contributors. The campaign quickly incorporated stretch goals as it became apparent their crowdfunding initiative was… Read More

Kickstarter For Dummies Hits Shelves

This week the folks behind the For Dummies® series of self help and reference books announced a new title focusing on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. From the press release… Today, the world’s bestselling reference series, For Dummies® announces Kickstarter For Dummies (Wiley, 978-1-118-50543-4, May 2013, US… Read More

Why everything geeks think they know about Kickstarter is wrong

Kickstarter has been described as the Home Shopping Network for geeks—picture an online version of the Sharper Image catalog and an investment platform for tech startups having a baby. But this is the wrong way to think about Kickstarter, because the site’s founders have actually… Read More

VR Gaming Gets Another Kickstarter: The Omni Gaming Treadmill

If you’re a regular visitor to Crowdfund Insider you’ve no doubt heard of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality gaming headset approved by grandmothers everywhere. Now the Rift’s logical companion is crowdfunding on Kickstarter and it has already met a $150,000 funding goal. It’s called… Read More

Shadow of the Eternals Stops Crowdfunding on Kickstarter

In a backers update posted on Kickstarter, organizers of the crowdfunding campaign for Shadows of the Eternals has announced they are at least temporarily pulling their campaign.  Previously there were rumblings that if the crowdfunding campaign was not successful, the game most likely would not… Read More

Crowdfunding 101: “Linsanity”

Project: Linsanity  Funding goal: US$117,000 Amount raised: $167,916 Kickstarter backers: 2,102 Key takeaway: Have a plan and identify potential “super fans” “Plan, plan, plan” is the main piece of advice coming from Linsanity producer Allen Lu, who oversaw the Kickstarter campaign for the Sundance documentary selection which tracked Asian-American basketball star Jeremy… Read More

A Kickstarter For Music Hackers: OWL Programmable Effects Pedal

Enterprising and adventerous musicians everywhere are drooling… The OWL is an open source, open hardware, reprogrammable effects pedal designed for musicians, coders, and hackers. With a little bit of C++ hackery the OWL can be made to sound like just about anything. This is music… Read More

Should Kickstarter pledges be taxed?

The tax mysteries surrounding “crowdfunding” projects. You know you’ve really made it when you become a category on “Jeopardy!” On May 28th, the first Double Jeopardy! category was “If Early Investors Used Kickstarter.” What the heck is Kickstarter.com — and what’s all the fuss? This… Read More

New Feature on Kickstarter, Feedback on Project Preview

Kickstarter has announced a new feature on their site blog regarding Project Preview Feedback for their crowdfunding campaigns.  As Kickstarter campaigns become more competitive this new functionality helps in capturing comments and insight from anyone the project organizer wants to share the campaign with prior… Read More

Noir City and the Guilt of the Kickstarter

When I began my Kickstarter, I was worried that it would fail. However, after we met our goal, I didn’t realize how guilty I would feel. First, a little context. Picture it . . . Missouri, September 2004. Jeph Loeb and Michael Turner were finishing… Read More

Crowdfunding 101: “Inocente”

Project: Inocente Funding goal: US$50,000 Amount raised: $52,527 Kickstarter backers: 294 Key takeaway: Know how much you need Husband and wife directorial team Sean Fine (pictured above, right) and Andrea Nix Fine (left) were in post-production on their 39-minute doc Inocente when they decided to turn to Kickstarter for help. The film… Read More

Knight Foundation Plays The Challenge Grant Card

It always surprises me when people seem agog at the very concept of crowdfunding. It is as if that individual has never watched Sesame Street or heard of NPR. At it’s heart the crowdfunding model is a twist on the public media one. Heck, you might even… Read More

Infragram Is A Small Infrared Camera For Geek Gardeners

Did you know that looking at a garden in infrared can help a gardener see areas of high growth versus elements of low growth or decay? You learn something new every day. That is the idea behind the Infagram, which aims to put an infrared… Read More

Filmmaker Takes To Kickstarter For Cicada Documentary

Cicadas have been making headlines this year for their once-every-17-year-emergence from the ground on the mid-Atlantic coast. Now Samuel Orr has launched a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of creating a documentary on the phenomenon, and the campaign is fully funded. Orr has announced a $20,000… Read More

Life After Kickstarter: 5 Costly Lessons From A Kickstarter-Backed Designer

KICKSTARTER BACKERS PLEDGED $212,265 TO MAKE JON FAWCETT’S FLEXIBLE IPOD DOCK A REALITY. HERE’S WHAT CAME NEXT. For Jon Fawcett, Kickstarter success came with an unusual soundtrack: an air horn. The din started on May 7, 2012, the day Fawcett and his colleagues at Fuse Chicken,… Read More

UPDATED: Double Fine Productions Returns To Kickstarter To Fund “MASSIVE CHALICE”

UPDATE: Double Fine Productions does it again. MASSIVE CHALICE has surpassed it’s goal and is on the way to the million dollar mark. Double Fine Productions can now boast being one of the few people or companies to have two successful six-figure crowdfunding campaigns under their… Read More

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