Tagged: kickstarter

May 25, 2013 @ 6:47 pm By MSN News  |  

Creative types are flocking to Kickstarter, GoFundMe and other sites to fund their dreams, but what happens when no one buys into their ideas? If you’re plugged into the news, you’ve no doubt seen splashy headlines about successful Kickstarter campaigns in recent months. In March,… Read More

May 25, 2013 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The Kickstarter  crowdfunding campaign started by Actor / Directory Zach Braff closed yesterday.  The final tally stood at $3,105,473 surpassing the original target of $2 Million by more than a million.  The Braff campaign had captured wide spread media attention following the incredible success of… Read More

May 25, 2013 @ 6:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The Pebble smart watch was born of Kickstarter to raise the most funds to date on the rewards based crowdfunding platform. It has been only one year since headlines were made about this crowdfunding project – but what a year. Recently the team behind the Pebble… Read More

May 24, 2013 @ 9:18 am By JSOnline  |  

Joshua Zimmerman’s cure for boredom netted him nearly $200,000 and a change of careers. The Wauwatosa resident, a middle school science teacher at Blessed Savior West, says he was “bored and needed a hobby” when he started doing some tinkering, making solar-powered cars and battery… Read More

May 23, 2013 @ 10:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Reported just last week this crowdfunding campaign  on Kickstarter for a Glowing Bioluminescent Plant had surpassed $250,000 – now stands over $385,000.  With 14 days to go the original target of $65,000 has been easily crushed. In a release organizers The Glowing Plant team announced they… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 10:11 pm By Popular Mechanics  |  

The Oculus Rift is a stunning virtual-reality headset for gamers. In PopMech’s test, we found that “the experience is so immersive that it’s actually a bit disorienting.” Today, we sit down for a few questions and answers with Oculus Rift founder, CEO, and wunderkind Palmer Luckey…. Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 9:57 pm By PandoDaily  |  

No one’s even surprised anymore when you mention that US students are behind other countries in math and science. Is this the new normal? Sure, there are promising signs: President Obama’s 2014 budget does increase STEM education funding by 6.4% to $3.1 billion. And last month, the National… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The AGENT smartwatch, currently on Kickstarter, implements some savvy design features to try and improve upon what they call the “last generation” of smartwatches. They’re looking at you, Pebble. The biggest design improvement has to be the inclusion of a second, smaller processor for moments… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 8:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Kickstarter campaign for MMO trading card game HEX: Shards Of Fate has surpassed a million dollars in funding with over two weeks to go. Cryptozoic Entertainment, creators and publishers of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, is excited and proud to introduce HEX:… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 7:49 am By Film School Rejects  |  

Recently, the act of donating to or promoting a Kickstarter campaign has become a highly politicized and moralized one for movie fans, an act brimming with questions, crises, and conundrums about systemic economic disadvantages normalized by dominant industries of filmmaking. Suspicion has been directed in droves toward… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 7:42 am By DoubleThought  |  

In an impressively short time, Kickstarter has quickly become the go-to high-impact mashup of crowdsourcing sensibility and entrepreneurial endeavor. If you’ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a “me, too with a twist” — Kickstarter’s “crowd funding” platform offers a genuinely innovative way… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 7:34 am By SF Business Times  |  

Using Kickstarter to crowdfund new San Francisco restaurant and food projects is officially a thing. Just this week, Linea Caffe launched a project seeking $10,000 to open a new coffee and waffles joint in the Mission, while Café St. Jorge, another café-bakery, hopes to raise $30,000 by… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 1:29 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BrickPi has a hugely successsful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The goal? To crowdfund Raspberry Pi-based brains that work with off-the-shelf LEGO® Mindstorms hardware to create your very own robots. The Raspberry Pi is a small, cheap ($25) computer that has a footprint roughly similar to… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 9:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve written numerous times about the Oculus Rift, a product by Oculus VR that gives video gamers a full virtual reality experience. Now a product called the meta 1 aims to bring virtual reality to our everyday world, and it’s crowdfunding now on Kickstarter. As… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 8:06 am By Capsule Computers  |  

Stompy Bot Productions (in partnership with Mektek Studios) announced their Kickstarter campaign for Heavy Gear Assault today, an upcoming online PC mech-themed shooter built around Unreal Engine 4 technology. Rumors of development first began in February, and between then and now there hasn’t been a great deal of news regarding the title. My suspicion is that they’ve… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 3:06 pm By The Salt Lake Tribune  |  

The crowd-funding drive for Richard Dutcher’s “The Boys at the Bar” met its goal over the weekend — only now there’s another twist. Dutcher proclaimed victory Saturday on his Facebook page, after donations to fund post-production on his new comedy went over the $30,000 goal. On Sunday, though, Kickstarter… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 9:20 am By Joystiq  |  

Noted Twisted Metal and God of War designer David Jaffe has signed on with Pixelbionic, a new independent games studio formed in southern California late last year. Jaffe will take a creative advisory role to aid in Pixelbionic’s first game, Autoduel – an online vehicular combat game for the PC that will seek… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 9:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Finders Keepers is a documentary by Ed Cunningham, producer of the Oscar winning documentary Undefeated. The film follows the strange tale of Shannon Whisnant, a man who bought a smoker in a storage auction in 2007 and found a severed, mummified human leg in it…. Read More

May 18, 2013 @ 10:41 am By VentureBeat  |  

Hidden Path Entertainment has found an angel investor to fund the final step of development for Defense Grid 2, the sequel to a popular tower-defense game. Last year, Bellevue, Wash.-based developer Hidden Path managed to raised $271,726 from more than 6,000 donors for a Kickstarter crowdfunding… Read More

May 18, 2013 @ 10:31 am By The Dallas Observer  |  

Financing a brewery, either in part or whole, through crowd funding campaigns like Kickstarter is a fascinating phenomenon. Old-fashioned lengthy business plans with amortization charts, projections and risk assessments are buried at the bottom of the recycling bin, or better yet, under a box of… Read More