Tagged: kickstarter

January 28, 2013 @ 3:32 am By Xconomy  |  

Most biotech pros will shrug, or chuckle, if you ask whether crowdfunding will transform life sciences financing in the U.S. This, after all, is an industry where you often need to raise at least $50 million or $100 million to even have a chance at developing a new… Read More

January 26, 2013 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Announced on Friday on the Kickstarter blog, the crowdfunding site continues to evolve by incorporating hashtags into the Kickstarter campaigns to aid with project discovery. As participation Kickstarter grows and the number of projects being funded by their crowdfunding site the team has noticed some… Read More

January 22, 2013 @ 6:17 pm By Develop  |  

Are crowdfunded projects being given a free ride away from criticism? Before I get into this, let me start by saying that Kickstarter has been a revelation for the game industry, and a positive one. Developers are able to get their niche projects off the… Read More

January 22, 2013 @ 8:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier this month we caught wind of the story of Hanfree, Seth Quest and Neil Singh as first reported by Eric Markowitz in Inc. It is supposedly the first time a Kickstarter backer had sued a project creator, and it eventually led to our story… Read More

January 21, 2013 @ 3:13 pm By SmithsonianMag  |  

In 2009, a crowd-funding website called Kickstarter opened its doors to creatives who wanted to find funding for their projects. Since then, thousands of projects have been funded, and some clear trends have emerged. Games are clear winners, but so are, it seems, dance projects?… Read More

January 21, 2013 @ 7:41 am By USAToday  |  

In April, President Barack Obama signed the bipartisan Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act into law. The entrepreneurial community cheered, saying the law would help small businesses raise money during their most vulnerable periods, when companies try to move from early to late stage. “The thing… Read More

January 21, 2013 @ 1:03 am By ABC.net  |  

Kickstarter has become one of the main hubs on the internet for crowdfunding, raising almost US$320 million last year from over 2.2 million people around the world. The United States-based website recently published figures showing that 18,109 projects have been successfully funded, with supporters giving… Read More

January 20, 2013 @ 9:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen is reported to be presenting at the  World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week according to USAToday.  The five day conference kicks of this week in the picturesque ski village featuring some of the most influential business, political and though… Read More

January 18, 2013 @ 4:03 am By Real Business  |  

Start-ups and early stage businesses have usually been the territory of the three f’s: friends, family and fools. Typically, when the f’s have been exhausted, the projects that survived and still show promise would turn to institutional providers – banks, debt providers and venture capitalists…. Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 10:08 pm By TwinCities.com  |  

For local tech entrepreneurs seeking to kick-start projects with a “crowdfunding” infusion, the popular Kickstarter method is increasingly feeling like an uphill struggle. Some recent Kickstarter campaigns, like SmartThings, fire the imagination of funders and soar to success. SmartThings, a project to give everyday objects… Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 6:12 am By Xconomy  |  

Kickstarter helped pioneer crowdfunding for creative projects. It has been enormously successful. The Kickstarter model is to set a fundraising goal. If the project meets its goal, the money is transferred to the creators to fund the development of the project. Kickstarter collects a 5 percent fee, the… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 7:54 pm By WSJ.com  |  

One of the very first hurdles that a new entrepreneur faces is how to find the initial capital necessary to fund the process of building a company. Most entrepreneurs begin using their own money for the initial costs. Eventually, however, the time comes that it no longer… Read More

January 14, 2013 @ 8:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Self described as the Oscars of the Start Up & Tech World, TechCrunch’s 6th annual Crunchies Awards includes two leading crowdfunding sites:   both Kickstarter and Indiegogo are on the list as nominees for the Biggest Social Impact for 2012.  CrowdTilt is another crowdfunding site which… Read More

January 14, 2013 @ 3:53 am By DenverPost  |  

In the olden days of pagers and VHS tapes, when you needed help with tuition you might hop on the landline to dial up your grandparents. If you were planning a trip abroad, you could comb through your Rolodex to shake down friends who still… Read More

January 12, 2013 @ 6:26 am By Forbes  |  

Our first post described the incipient rise of hacker culture inside large corporations, outlining four tactics for hacking. This post, our last in this series, elaborates on the fourth tactic, Prototype a Kickstarter Project (please download its PDF here; we’ll be talking around it). Here are the links… Read More

January 12, 2013 @ 5:31 am By BBC  |  

Power-up! PC gaming giant Valve confirms plans to make its own “Steam Box” console, and invests in hardware-maker Xi3. Special attack! The boss of Ouya, the crowdfunded Android console, meets games developers and accessory partners in Las Vegas just weeks before revealing her device’s launch… Read More

January 10, 2013 @ 8:30 pm By Sarah Lacy, PandoDaily  |  

Kickstarter is a notoriously press-shy company. The founders, admirably, prefer the attention go to the projects fundraising on the site and wisely want to avoid the downside of the hype cycle by not encouraging said hype in the first place. But whether Kickstarter welcomed it… Read More

January 10, 2013 @ 12:15 pm By The Star  |  

Thomas Edison once said, “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” If the inventor were alive today, he might tweak that last word to “support.” As it turns out, inventing has shifted dramatically in the years since the first light… Read More

January 9, 2013 @ 5:48 pm By Salon  |  

Kickstarter, the creative project crowd-funding site, announced this week that in 2012, “2,241,475 people pledged a total of $319,786,629 and successfully funded 18,109 projects.” The numbers represent impressive growth for the 3-year-old company. “The money total blew away 2011 by 221 percent,” reported Wired, “and the number of… Read More

January 9, 2013 @ 2:59 am By The Next Web  |  

UK accelerator Springboard is taking an unusual direction with itsforthcoming Internet of Things-focused program; crowdfunding is becoming a part of the fundraising available to startups taking part. Yes, all the teams will launch their products on Kickstarter to coincide with the traditional investor demo day. Kickstarter, which recently launched its… Read More