Tagged: kickstarter

April 20, 2013 @ 6:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding as Entertainment. Kickstarter has announced a new method of viewing crowdfunding on their platform:  Video Mode.  A statement on Kickstarter indicated they had been “blown away” by the high caliber of video pitches they have experienced on their site.  They specifically mentioned, Allison Weiss,… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 9:16 am By Hollywood.com  |  

Happy Endings is hanging by a thread at ABC. Heroes has been canceled since 2010. Pushing Daises has been, well, pushing up daisies since it went kaput almost four years ago. But fans needn’t worry. The word “canceled” simply doesn’t hold that much weight these days. Any defunct show can… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 1:08 am By PandoDaily  |  

Welcome to a new era of crowdfunding, where the “crowd” part is more important than the “funding.” Before “smartwatch” became a household term, the makers of the Pebble watch had been rejected, repeatedly, by investors. When the project’s Kickstarter campaign exploded, VCs were suddenly desperate… Read More

April 19, 2013 @ 1:45 pm By BBC  |  

Scientists developing a robot to repair coral reefs around the world have turned to crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter to raise funds. The Coralbot team from Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University are hoping to raise $107,000 (£70,000) before June. The campaign, which began this week, has more than 80 backers and… Read More

April 19, 2013 @ 1:41 pm By Forbes  |  

I have a rock and roll band. It’s called Black Hi-Lighter. Right now, we’re halfway through a rite of passage: the Kickstarter campaign. The first rule of how not to fail at Kickstarter is: Please pledge your support! Or, in other words, start shameless. Ours is a… Read More

April 18, 2013 @ 8:57 am By Cameron Keng  |  

On April 1st, 2013, Kickstarter released a “tax guide” for project creators that will lead thousands of creatives to fall under IRS tax audits as well as their contributors.  The tax guide started with the best intentions, but the execution is beyond wrong.  This is a WARNING… Read More

April 18, 2013 @ 8:35 am By University Star  |  

  Students who want to see their creative goals become a reality should consider taking advantage of the Kickstarter website to generate funds and support for project ideas.   Kickstarter is an online platform where several projects involving art, food, music and everything in between… Read More

April 17, 2013 @ 5:27 pm By Village Voice  |  

Howdy Fan, Over the past five years my band has built up a modest fan base that largely includes all the wonderful people we have met in the process, and is bankrolled mostly by our three day jobs. We just released our second album on… Read More

April 16, 2013 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Divinity: Original Sin, a role playing game crowdfunding on Kickstarter, has surpassed their $400,000 goal and have set up new stretch goals to keep the momentum and funding going.  Reward tiers start at $5 and scale up to $10,000. Divinity was recognized as one of… Read More

April 16, 2013 @ 9:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset for 3d games that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter to the tune of $2.4 million. Yesterday Gizmodo surfaced this awesome video of a 90 year old woman trying the headset on for the first time and her reaction… Read More

April 16, 2013 @ 7:45 am By Popular Science  |  

Most independent inventors don’t have bottomless bank accounts. To fund their dreams, many innovators are appealing to strangers on the Web for help. Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler weighs in on this growing source of grassroots venture capital. How does crowdfunding work? Traditional funding channels support… Read More

April 15, 2013 @ 3:34 pm By MoscowTimes  |  

If you wonder why Russians don’t smile in the metro, what they really think about corruption, how many of them fought bears and how many of these brave souls were drinking vodka at the time, now you can satisfy your curiosity. A Moscow-based team of market researchers has recently launched a project on the… Read More

April 15, 2013 @ 7:42 am By VentureBeat  |  

This is a guest post by designer Jim Clark  When I first found out about Kickstarter, I thought it was a great idea. I’ve been making things all my life. As the owner of a visual effects and imaging studio, designing, rendering and visually developing creations is… Read More

April 14, 2013 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Shovel Knight, a multi-platform game, has crowdfunded $311,502 on Kickstarter far surpassing their $75,000 goal.  The crowdfunding campaign was supported by 14,749 backers.  Shovel Knight is a product of LA based Yacht Club Games. Stretch goals were incorporated into the crowdfunding effort to help boost… Read More

April 14, 2013 @ 8:36 am By NewsFactor Business Report  |  

The company that helped coin the word “crowdfunding,” Kickstarter, helped everything from gardens, books and local plays come to life. It has grown to include movies, music and a red-hot tech product. But one price of success: As Kickstart-ed projects become more widespread, backlash —… Read More

April 13, 2013 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The Veronica Mars film crowdfunding saga has been covered extensively in the press, including these pages.  The incredible amount of funds, the high profile of the organizers and the glam of Hollywood have combined to create a compelling crowdfunding odyssey which has come to exemplify… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:14 am By Gadizmo  |  

Remember how we were bemoaning the fact that the original SOSCharger didn’t work with smartphones? Well guess what, SOS Ready has heard the pleas of the smartphone owners and have put up a Kickstarter campaign for their newest line of hand-crank smartphone chargers. Not only is this great for… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Chris Shaw, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Kansas City-based startup accelerator and business incubator Think Big Partners has been selected by Google to be a beta tester of its exclusive Glass hardware. Google selected only 8,000 people worldwide to be part of its Glass Explorers program, an… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Thomas shares his reaction to the Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter reaching $5 million dollars. More on the Veronica Mars project on Crowdfund Insider: Veronica Mars Crosses $5 Million With 2 Days To Go Veronica Mars Movie Wants To Be Biggest Kickstarter Movie Ever Veronica… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:00 am By Randi Zuckerberg  |  

I remember when I first discovered Kickstarter. Now anybody can be a patron of the arts? How cool is that! I remember growing up, considering a career in the arts, and being told that without a record label, I could never put out an album…. Read More