Tagged: kickstarter

May 17, 2013 @ 12:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s the story that won’t die. Worldview Entertainment has stepped into the frey with Zach Braff’s upcoming release Wish I Was Here. The movie, a spiritual successor to Braff’s hit Garden State, is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. It sits at $2.6 million pledged with a week left… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 10:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Pebble has joined Ouya in raising $15 million in venture capital after a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign. In Pebble’s case, the round was led by Charles River Ventures and partner George Zachary. Zachary said this was the largest Series A he has ever participated in. Oh,… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 9:49 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Scottish Community Group DD8 Music has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a memorial to longtime AC/DC frontman Bon Scott in his hometown of Kirriemuir, and the project just received the blessing from the band. At the 2013 Bonfest in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the funding campaign for… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 9:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This is why I love crowdfunding. We love maple syrup. We put it on everything. With pancakes, in our coffee, on our pizza. We put some in our hair when we’ve had a rough week. If you’ve had the chance to taste real maple syrup you know… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

All this week CNBC will be sharing their list of 50 disruptors.  Crowdfunding platforms CircleUp, LendingClub and Kickstarter have made the list of a new companies which are shaking up their sector – financial services.  LendingClub has recently hit front page headlines with the $125… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 8:54 am By Forbes  |  

With the success of the Veronica Mars and Garden State-sequel Kickstarter campaigns, it appears that the crowdfunding business model has made its way to mainstream Hollywood. While crowdfunding certainly has advantages, including giving filmmakers more creative control over their projects, this business model is open to potential claims of… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Planet Money, a joint project of NPR and This American Life, has trail-blazed a new path for NPR.  They have crowdfunded themselves on Kickstarter.  The initial campaign commenced on April 30th and ended on May 15th.  The goal was an admirable $50,000 target.  The finally… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 8:01 am By The Daily Dot  |  

It’s finally happened. Kickstarter users have said “No thanks!” to a celebrity’s film project. The crowdfunding campaign for the film Darci’s Walk of Shame, which had Melissa Joan Hart attached to it, was cancelled Monday after raising only $51,605 from 315 backers in a little over… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By Metronews.ca  |  

A Robocop statue in Detroit? I’d buy that for a dollar. That’s exactly what legions of Robocop fans did in 2011. After Detroit Mayor Dave Bingkiboshed the idea on Twitter, a Kickstarter campaign managed to raise over $67,000 to get a statute of the iconic cyber-cop erected in… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 12:13 pm By GigaOM  |  

Coming off a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund its Dispatch broadband aggregation software, Connectify is returning to the crowd-funding site for the next iteration of its product. This time around, the Philadelphia startup is developing a cloud-based packet parsing and channel bonding service called Switchboard designed to… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 11:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Video Games: The Movie is a feature length documentary which aims to tell the untold story of video games by an in depth look into not only how games are made, marketed and consumed by looking back at the industry’s history, current trends as well as the evolution of gamer… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 9:06 am By LatinosPost  |  

While many different individuals and developers are turning to Kickstarter and crowd funding to finance video games, some people within the industry are not keen to join the fad. One such person is Sid Meier, the influential designer of the Civilization series and who currently… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 10:59 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A pair of photography enthusiasts from Stanford, California have announced a Kickstarter campaign for Mount July camera filters. This set of three camera filters will screw onto any 58 or 52 mm lens, creating Instagram-like filtering for your digital camera. Olivia Vagelos and Martin Bush are… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 8:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Updated: Click here for the most recent version of this list… You may remember that we recently did this list on December 31st of last year. In just short of six months we have added 14 more campaigns to the list of Kickstarter raises that have… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 10:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As Mashable originally reported, a product called the Mad Genius is readying a Kickstarter campaign that will seek contributions in exchange for preorders of their new motion-sensitive gaming controller. In the clip below, you can see the controller in action as it is tested playing… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 9:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Robert Downey Jr. has done quite nicely for himself playing the lead role in the Iron Man film series. With Iron Man 3 just released, people obviously want to know whether or not to expect a fourth installment in the series. Well, last week on Jimmy Kimmel… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 9:17 am By 2amtheatre.com  |  

We decided to launch our first-ever Kickstarter campaign to supplement our meager budget — to build the platforms, to rent and build some costume pieces (indeed, I spent last night sewing, as did the actress who’s playing Emily), to help pay for postage to mail… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 9:11 am By Nintendo Life  |  

Kickstarter, as regular readers of Nintendo Life have no doubt noticed, is becoming increasingly visible in the gaming media. It’s not just here that the crowdfunding site is gaining a lot of web space, as increasing numbers of fundraisers begin to emerge, gain significant support… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 7:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ouya raised over $8 million on Kickstarter last year followed by a $15 million round led by Kleiner Perkins, becoming a darling of the gaming media as an example of crowdfunding’s power to democratize a gaming industry long dominated by large publishers and manufacturers. Now… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently there have been a lot of headlines and discussions regarding celebrities or the affluent utilizing crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter.  High profile film crowfunding for a Veronica Mars film or the project by Zach Braff have engendered a healthy discussion about who crowdfunding is for… Read More