Tagged: kickstarter

December 13, 2013 @ 9:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR has turned Kickstarter success into what is fast-becoming one of the most interesting startups in the US today. Following a $16 million series A round, the company has announced that they have now closed an additional round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz…. Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 5:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

I love technology and crowdfunding is a great way to discover new technology and what will be hot in the months to come.   Today we are featuring 5 different crowdfunding campaigns in the Technology category which are crowdfunding on Kickstarter now. Kickstarter has launched… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 11:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Rock smartwatch was able to garner almost $40,000 in pledges from crowdfunding backers before Kickstarter finally had to pull the plug on the campaign. The run-up to how that happened should strike fear into anyone looking to pull a fast one on the crowd…. Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 11:12 am By JD Alois  |  

The Aurora Dream Enhancing Headband launched on Kickstarter today in an attempt to raise $90,000.00.  The project by iWinks pre-launched on Prefundia to garner interested potential backers by building the crowd prior to their crowdfunding round.  The product fills a deep void which was left… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s Crowdfund Bookie series periodically takes a peek at crowdfunding data for game-related campaign raising money on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Today they published the latest breakdown, and it shows that 186 projects on these two platforms raised $23,914,666 from over 500,000 backers. Mighty No. 9 tops… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 9:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lima: Brain of your Devices, which ran an incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign Kickstarter that closed September 2013, posted a backer update today which mollified many of their critics. In September the hot tech device, which effectively allows users to create their own virtual cloud storage with… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 12:35 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Recently Etta Devine answered the following open-ended question on Quora: What are some tips for creating a successful Kickstarter project? Her answer was great. Even future Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler gave it a thumbs up. Devine raised over $30,000 on a goal of just $6,000 for… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 8:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is one of the reasons I love crowdfunding.  How cool would it be to help launch a satellite into deep space that is powered by the sun and propelled by water? The CubeSat Ambipolar Thruster or CAT is a space project crowdfunding on Kickstarter now…. Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 12:18 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Did I ever mention I love Quora? I especially love Yancey Strickler’s presence on Quora, where he occasionally answers questions from the crowd regarding his crowdfunding platform – Kickstarter – and some of their practices and inner-workings. This week he answered the question of why… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

ForeverGeek has launched the ForeverGeek Kickstarter store, an online store dedicated to collecting and selling successfully crowdfunded Kickstarter projects.  The site is part of the Splashpress Media portfolio of sites. The Forever Geek Kickstarter store has configured eight categories with released Kickstarter products, including comic books, video… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 1:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

HiddenRadio2 Crushes Goal in Under 5 Hours. HiddenRadio originally successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter a bit over two years ago.  Product creators John VDN and Vitor Santa Maria have spent the past two years listening to feedback from backers and customers.  After the extended hiatus they… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Quartz | 2014 is the year of the internet of things—no, seriously, we mean it this time The “Internet of Things” movement is alive and growing and Quartz predicts that things will really take off in 2014. Of course, crowdfunding stands to be front and center… Read More

December 8, 2013 @ 11:19 am By JD Alois  |  

The PowerUp 3.0 Smartphone Controlled Paper Airplane is some kind of awesome.  The crowdfunding campaign launched just before Thanksgiving and topped the $50,000 goal in less than 8 hours.  Over 1000 backers rushed to support this cool project launching it into Kickstarter stratosphere.  The stretch… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 3:19 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kevin M. Duvall allowed us to share some charts he has compiled based in part on a list of the top 50 all-time Kickstarter campaigns we compiled back in September. The aim of the data is to show how Kickstarter success stories are dispersed across… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 8:15 am By JD Alois  |  

After Hugely Successful Equity Crowdfunding Round, SecuGate+ Offers Rewards on Kickstarter. Secucloud, a provider of cloud-based IT-Security, has unveiled SecuGate+, their network security solution for Home & Small Business – and they are crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The rewards round follows an incredibly successful equity round in… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

CNN Money | How IBM bypasses bureaucratic purgatory IBM has an in-house crowdfunding platform that they use to allow employees to vet and evaluate their colleagues’ ideas. It’s an effort to “improve the way we do things internally” according to the head of IBM’s CIO… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

You have to love the community that has formed around Cloud Imperium Games’s upcoming release Star Citizen. The crowd that has formed around the game maintains various discussion communities around the Internet, not the least of which is the /r/starcitizen subreddit, which boasts almost 16,000 subscribers…. Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 4:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Film crowdfunding super-start Veronica Mars, created by Rob Thomas has announced the Kickstarter hit will be released on March 14, 2014.  One of the largest crowdfunding campaigns ever, the film closed on Kickstarter  this past April having raised over $5.7 Million creating a title wave… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kano is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter to bring a new PC kit to market. The kit is touted as a “computer and coding kit for all ages, all over the world,” and the campaign to fund it has already crossed $1 million in funding with… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 10:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This week, PBS MediaShift is running a series of articles on various aspects of the topic of crowdfunding. The first article, a birds-eye view of proposed rules for equity crowdfunding, was published today by Paul Spinrad. RELATED | How the SEC Listened to the Crowd for… Read More