Tagged: kickstarter

May 7, 2013 @ 3:10 pm By Paid Content  |  

When the NPR show Planet Money wanted to put together a project about the economic life-cycle of a T-shirt, Kickstarter seemed like the natural approach — and it showed how much crowdfunding has in common with public media. When the reporting team at Planet Money — a… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 8:12 am By Business Insider  |  

Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘American Psycho’ is a cult classic in print and on film, but apparently that isn’t enough, because now there’s a Kickstarter for ‘American Psycho The Musical.’ The Kickstarter was launched by Act 4 Entertainment and the producer of the show Jesse Singer. You can watch… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 8:04 am By LA Times  |  

Even as Zach Braff was taking heat for asking the public to help finance his next movie, the actor and director was contributing to another Kickstarter campaign — to help save a historic theater in Northern California. Braff was among nearly 500 donors who helped raise $65,753… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 11:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Redwall is a hugely popular children’s fantasy book series by author Brian Jacques. Now video game developer Soma Games has taken to Kickstarter to crowdfund an officially-licensed video game based on the series.

May 6, 2013 @ 9:22 am By Neoseeker  |  

®City State Entertainment’s realm vs. realm focused MMORPG Camelot Unchained did it! They’ve successfully reached and surpassed their $2 million Kickstarter goal, despite still being more than 10% away as the project approached its final 24 hours. Due to its success, City State boss Mark Jacobs will drop his own $2… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 7:17 am By Entrepreneur  |  

You have a standout idea for a new product but need to raise money for it. So, you wonder whether you should consider a campaign on the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter. After all, Kickstarter’s results have been impressive. Since it was launched in 2009, about four million people… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 3:03 am By Palate Press  |  

In the old days, Alice Feiring knew exactly what she needed to do to launch her natural wine newsletter – find a publisher willing to give her an advance. But the old days are gone, and publishers are worrying about other things, like staying in… Read More

May 4, 2013 @ 12:37 pm By Huffington Post  |  

It was inevitable. After the Veronica Mars folks raised their $2 million in record time, you knew a similar project would come along. Hollywood, after all, is pretty good at taking what works and doing it over and over and over again until everyone is sick of… Read More

May 4, 2013 @ 12:25 pm By Hollywood Reporter  |  

The “Garden State” director talks “Veronica Mars,” anxiety over hitting the crowd-funding goal and answering all his critics. Zach Braff has heard the arguments about why he shouldn’t be using Kickstarter to fund his new film. But he doesn’t buy his detractors’ logic. “My brain has… Read More

May 4, 2013 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunded on Kickstarter in May of last year, the Power Pot is migrating to become a successful post crowdfund business.  The Power Pot crowdfunding campaign had an original goal of raising $50,000 but more than doubled that by generating over $126,000 to finance the project…. Read More

May 4, 2013 @ 2:17 am By The Guardian  |  

Perhaps you’re looking for something that will give you a better return than a savings account. Maybe you fancy emulating the likes of Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne by becoming “an armchair Dragon” and investing in a fledgling business that you think has the potential… Read More

May 3, 2013 @ 8:15 am By Fresno Bee  |  

Hunter S. Thompson spent his early career running from creditors, trying to scrape together enough cash to find a decent place to hole up with his typewriter and finish his debut novel. That’s my take on “The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman,… Read More

May 3, 2013 @ 8:10 am By Polygon  |  

Amazon Payments, the payment processing system Kickstarter uses for its United States-based projects, experienced an outage yesterday for approximately four hours, raising concerns from project runners about the overall success of their campaigns. The outage was site-wide, but especially prompted responses from those campaigns entering… Read More

May 3, 2013 @ 8:06 am By Kotaku  |  

For the last few days, I’ve been playing Star Command, a mobile game that’s had people excited for a very long time now. Beginning life as a Kickstarter project, it’s gone through several major delays, and arrives this week on the App Store an example not just of… Read More

May 1, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As we saw with the Veronica Mars project, the Internet at large is opining on whether or not Zach Braff should be using a platform like Kickstarter to launch his new movie. Two examples today… Kickstarter Abuse: Why Are You Giving Your Money to Wealthy… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 8:50 pm By PandoDaily  |  

Pop-quiz: Name an organization funded by users’ contributions who receive cheap swag in return. Is it the latest hot new Kickstarter? Nope, it’s National Public Radio. Well, actually in this case, it’s both. Instead of turning to a phone-a-thon to fund its latest Planet Money… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 7:44 am By Naples News  |  

… “Miss Julie” may well join them. By Sunday night, sixteen donors had put the company more than halfway toward its goal. Writing on Facebook, Brady said she was “thrilled.” Joining the project among the ranks of successful theatre-related Kickstarters, Florida Repertory Theatre’s Chris Clavelli… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 7:41 am By The Guardian  |  

Actor and director Zach Braff has hit back against suggestions he ought to have used his own money to fund his next film, rather than turning to the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. Braff recently reached a $2m (£1.29m) target to shoot Wish I Was Here, a follow-up to his well-received… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 7:28 am By Wired  |  

These are the facts that we need to reconcile: Netflix, which recently touted its House of Cardsstrategy of original content released all at once, just surpassed cable giant HBO in number of subscribers. Kickstarter crowdfunded $5M for a Veronica Mars that would not otherwise get made. (This isn’t just one big outlier: it… Read More

April 29, 2013 @ 9:04 pm By GameZone  |  

After reaching more than $2 million in crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the Star Citizen developer kept donations open via its Roberts Space Industries website. It now has a pool of $9 million from both sources combined. That’s an increase of $1 million since mid-February. Star Citizen… Read More