Tagged: kickstarter

February 12, 2013 @ 8:06 am By HotHardWare  |  

A couple of months ago, we covered a story that appeared straightforward enough at first but took an odd turn just a day or so later. When the story first gained traction in the media, it appeared as though Apple had hamstrung a Kickstarter project for a… Read More

February 12, 2013 @ 6:14 am By Mashable  |  

Ram Malasani, CEO and founder of the 22-person company Securifi, isn’t the typical newbie entrepreneur you’d expect to find on Kickstarter, a wildly popular website where people can pitch projects and receive small pledges of financial support from anyone. But with weeks still left to go… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Promises Made An individual identifying himself as Michael Waller of Syracuse, NY launched a Kickstarter campaign in the summer of 2012. The project was called the “MD-Pen,” or “minimal and durable pen.” It is an aluminum housing compatible with many off-the-shelf pen cartridges. Pre-orders were offered… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 1:01 am By Forbes  |  

With just under $50,000 raised, these next two days could be nail-biters. The game is a turn-based strategy game in which you guide a nomadic tribe across randomly generated maps to reach “God Mountain.” Death is permanent, and choices made along the way impact your… Read More

February 10, 2013 @ 5:38 pm By HITC Tech  |  

Not all games on Kickstarter are what they appear, as a title aimed at US College Football fans was recently pulled from the crowd funding site after potentially fraudulent claims were exposed. Boasting a backing from well-known Atlanta Falcons running back Jamal Anderson, the project claimed that… Read More

February 10, 2013 @ 5:31 pm By StarTribune  |  

How about an authentic New Yawk bagel to go along with those three shots of caffeine? “Triple Espresso,” the long-running, locally born-and-raised stage comedy, has set its sights on an off-Broadway run — if backers can raise $300,000 through a Kickstarter campaign launched Saturday afternoon…. Read More

February 10, 2013 @ 11:40 am By GeekOSystem  |  

Thursday I wrote about a Kickstarter campaign that was trying to raise money for Death Star research, and I called it the crowdfunding site’s jump-the-shark moment. My concern was that if Kickstarter starts letting stuff like that through, it would soon be overrun with nothing… Read More

February 10, 2013 @ 10:45 am By VentureBeat  |  

Brian Fargo. Tim Schafer. Chris Roberts. Chris Taylor. These designers are responsible for a number of noteworthy video games. And all four also have another thing in common — they’ve gone to Kickstarter to fund their latest projects. Path of Exile recently went into open… Read More

February 9, 2013 @ 2:43 pm By Outside Magazine  |  

Kickstarter has become the go-to funding source for serious expeditions and boondoggles alike. And that has some benefactors wanting their cash back. Last May, Andrew Badenoch, a thirtysomething former Internet marketer in Oregon, set off on a 7,000-mile solo expedition from Bellingham, Washington, with a… Read More

February 8, 2013 @ 1:18 pm By NYTimes.com  |  

For about three years, between the ages of 12 and 15, I spent much of my free time on Internet forums devoted to the collectible-card game Magic: The Gathering. It became an obsession, consuming my mind and becoming the only thing I wanted to talk… Read More

February 7, 2013 @ 7:52 pm By Pitchfork  |  

Björk‘s Kickstarter has been canceled. The Awl points out (via Spin) that the campaign launched to fund the Android/Windows versions of her Biophilia app is no longer. It’s not so much that it fell short of its funding goal; rather, it was cancelled. The project stalled nearly three weeks before its February 27 complete… Read More

February 6, 2013 @ 6:01 pm By Fast Company  |  

When Twine’s creators signed up for Kickstarter, they thought they’d make about 200 devices using the same $20 toaster oven they had purchased for the prototype. Then they raised more than $500,000. Twine is exactly the type of sensor-stuffed, Wi-Fi-connected gadget you would expect to take… Read More

February 6, 2013 @ 8:32 am By Nathaniel Hansen  |  

I get A LOT of requests to help with kickstarter campaigns. Through trial and error on over a dozen kickstarter projects, hours of lectures at Emerson College, and countless meet ups, phone calls and emails with artists and innovators, I’ve refined a “best practices” list that… Read More

February 5, 2013 @ 5:26 pm By TechCrunch  |  

A new company called Connected Data wants to change the way people do cloud storage, with a dedicated, Internet-connected storage device called the Transporter. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the company is looking to get the product in more people’s hands, and will be helped in… Read More

February 4, 2013 @ 6:01 am By Worcester Business Journal Online  |  

Crowd funding has taken off over the past three years, driven largely by musicians and artists raising money for albums or projects. But startup companies and entrepreneurs in Central Massachusetts, drawn by a decidedly unique way to raise extra capital, have started to employ the… Read More

February 1, 2013 @ 8:05 am By The Inquirer  |  

THE THUMB-SIZED GAMES CONSOLE Gamestick has ended its Kickstarter run covered in glory and with almost six thousand people to thank. The console initially had the goal of raising $100,000. It beat that target easily and broke $600,000 over its weeks on the crowdfunding website. Over… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 7:10 pm By Forbes  |  

Social entrepreneurs of all varieties are turning to crowdfunding to launch or expand their social efforts; recently I’ve connected with five who have shared their stories of how they raised up to $100,000 each. Rebecca Pontius led the effort for an organization called the Do… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 3:01 pm By Forbes  |  

Crowdfunding is an alternative way to raise capital to get a venture off the ground. The concept’s been around for several years and it’s growing fast: The largest crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, received over $300 million in pledges in 2012. It’s going to be an important… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 7:00 am By MCV  |  

Andy Schatz, developer of the upcoming award-winning indie Monaco, has expressed his concern with Kickstarter stretch goals – calling the idea “total bullshit” when going about designing a game. Speaking to Penny Arcade Report, Schatz stated that while happy for the people that have found success… Read More

January 29, 2013 @ 7:39 am By NowGamer  |  

Kickstarted games might not have millions of sales, but it’s perfect for the games that are being made says Artizens dev. Kickstarter doesn’t look like it’s about to go away any time soon, but despite the millions of dollars collected through the crowdfunding service it’s… Read More