Tagged: kickstarter

January 8, 2013 @ 4:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Below is a brief summary of the crowdfunding statistics Kickstarter released today.  2012 was certainly a stellar year for this young company which turned 3 years old in April.  We are looking forward to 2013: 2,241,475 pledged a total of $319,786629 for 18,109 successfully funded… Read More

January 8, 2013 @ 5:29 am By FastCompany  |  

With 3-D printing, makerspaces, and online forums about how to create hardware, it’s never been easier to create a new gadget. And crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter have made it easier than ever to fund a new gadget. But selling a new gadget? Still pretty… Read More

January 8, 2013 @ 1:17 am By IndieWire  |  

As the number crunchers at Kickstarter point out on their recent blog entry looking back at the three-and-a-half year old company’s fundraising successes, the $100 million it has raised is the equivalent of just one bombastic Hollywood production. But the fact that independent filmmakers have raised these… Read More

January 7, 2013 @ 7:26 pm By SacramentoPress  |  

Historically, pursuing a film career was the same as chasing the rock star dream: only a few out of every several hundred thousand dreamers got to be stars. Local filmmaker Rick Gott recently told SacTV.com, “the film industry has been set up over the last fifty… Read More

January 6, 2013 @ 4:40 pm By Forbes  |  

When CES was founded,  back in 1967,  the idea of ‘consumer electronics’ was just a glimmer of what it is today.  In 2003,  COMDEX collapsed (the Computer Deals Exhibition) when in part major companies such as IBM, Apple, and Compaq all shifted their budgets from… Read More

January 3, 2013 @ 9:15 pm By PolicyMic  |  

If you are somebody who follows the development of Web 2.0 pretty ardently, you must know about crowdfunding and more specifically, Kickstarter. (If not, I would suggest you go to the Kickstarter website and look around. It can be a mesmerizing experience.) What people who… Read More

January 3, 2013 @ 3:59 pm By Christina Warren, Mashable  |  

Pebble, the smartphone-friendly watch that raised over $10 million on Kickstarter — $500,000 in the first day alone — will be at CES 2013. The Pebble is the most successful Kickstarter project of all-time, with nearly 69,000 backers — myself included. Users were drawn to the promise of the product,… Read More

January 3, 2013 @ 3:29 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter just posted to their blog that they’ve officially raised $100 million in funding for independent films. Here are 10 quick facts from the post: $102.7 million pledged in total $85.7 million collected Almost 900,000 backers Over 8,500 funded projects Documentaries were the most funded… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 3:58 am By Joystiq  |  

If 38 Studios was the mainstream game industry story of the year, then crowdfunding site Kickstarter is indisputably the industry watcher’s story of the year. Kickstarter has changed the way developers fund and market games into the foreseeable future. It altered the industry so radically this year that we… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 1:05 am By International Business Times  |  

Since its humble beginnings in 2009 as “Kickstartr,” the New York-based crowdfunding platform has exploded into one of the most unique and controversial methods of fundraising in recent history. Today, the company claims nearly $1 million in project pledges each day, and Kickstarter recently made its first… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 10:21 am By Oskar Kalmaru, PandoDaily  |  

On November 30, Sweden’s Memoto closed a month-long Kickstarter campaign that raised $550,000 to manufacture a lifelogging wearable camera. Last week, we published astory about Memoto and the implications of its camera. Here, we present a guest post from Memoto co-founder Oskar Kalmaru in which he… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This infographic originally appeared on KickstartersHQ.com   Now, see our take on the 17 biggest Kickstarter campaigns

December 29, 2012 @ 2:08 am By VentureBeat  |  

As we punch the clock on 2012, we can safely call it the year of Kickstarter … at least for games. After developer Double Fine (The Cave, Psychonauts) broke the crowdfunding concept wide open with its hugely successful campaign that raised over $3.45 million to produce a… Read More

December 26, 2012 @ 6:13 pm By CFI Editor  |  

I was just reviewing the Kickstarter numbers which they put together in an excellent section of their site called, appropriately, Kickstarter Stats.  These are some pretty impressive crowdfunding numbers.  I was curious as to how they have done in years prior so I looked at… Read More

December 23, 2012 @ 9:15 am By The Boston Globe  |  

April 21 marked an amazing milestone for Jon Ramaci and his Cambridge start-up, iCache. He’d set out to raise $50,000 on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter for an iPhone ­accessory that would let users carry digital copies of all those credit, debit, and loyalty cards that… Read More

December 21, 2012 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Fully Crowdfunded project POP by design house Edison Junior achieved their Crowdfunding dreams on September 1st of this year.  The original goal for funding was a $50,000 target – the proceeds of which were to take to market their product POP also known as Portable… Read More

December 20, 2012 @ 7:59 am By LA Weekly  |  

Boy band Allstar Weekend are Poway’s answer to One Direction. The San Diego county-bred group got its start on the Disney Channel music competition Next Big Thing back in 2009. They took second place on that show, but the exposure helped the band ink a four-album deal… Read More

December 19, 2012 @ 10:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

In an article published in Forbes by Ryan Caldbeck, he lists Kickstarter as one of the top Financial Companies for 2012.  The Crowdfunding site was first on the list with the others sites being; Lending  Club (Peer to Peer lending), Motif (structured portfolio investments), Wealthfront… Read More