Tagged: kickstarter

November 20, 2013 @ 12:46 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BackerKit Blog | 2014 is the Year of the Crowdfunding Hero, and she’s got new tools in her belt. BackerKit is a service for crowdfunding project creators that “helps you manage your post-crowdfunding mayhem so that you can deliver on time.” They’ve seen a few… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 11:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Koichi Wakata released 3 small satellites from the Japanese Robotic Arm today. Pretty exciting to see live. pic.twitter.com/6shSmyqtXi — Mike Hopkins (@AstroIllini) November 19, 2013 Kickstarter has made it to space. In particular, three small satellites were launched into space from the International Space Station… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 10:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

On his blog, noted Colorado-based VC Brad Feld shares good news from the Occipital camp: two awards for their “Structure Sensor.” The Structure Sensor is a 3D scanner for the iPad that raised over $1.2 million on Kickstarter. The campaign closed on November 1st of… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 11:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In a recent interview with WENN, Spike Lee underscores an important strategy for crowdfunders, celebrities and regular joes alike. He credits “good karma” with helping him find crowdfunding success on Kickstarter… I’ve invested in at least eight or nine projects since I got on Kickstarter…. Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Landfill Harmonic a heartwarming story about children using recycled trash to create instruments and make beautiful music in the barrios of Paraguay, was featured on news magazine 60 Minutes last night.  This incredible story only came to popular attention when their was a crowdfunding campaign… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Neurio Home Intellegence, by Energy Aware in Vancouver, just closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter having trumped their $95,000 objective by raising over $260,000 CAD.  Almost two thousand supporters jumped in the smart home tech campaign with the majority opting in for the reward level… Read More

November 17, 2013 @ 5:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coming out of Sydney, Australia, Ninja Blocks have logged their second success using the Kickstarter to launch a new product.  In March of 2012 they raised $102,935 on a goal of $24,000 for their first step in creating a dynamic interconnected world with their Ninja… Read More

November 17, 2013 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Coming from the bastion of traditional media know as Time is a listicle outlining the “25 Best Inventions of the Year 2013” which unsurprisingly includes several crowdfunded projects.  Now I must point out that the paper and ink crew at Time may be a bit… Read More

November 15, 2013 @ 11:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Woodinville, Washington based Technical Illusions is celebrating today after the close of their wildly successful Kickstarter funding round. The company raised $1,052,110 for the castAR, a pair of “augmented reality glasses” that seems to be somewhere between Google Glass and the Oculus Rift. castAR’s projected augmented… Read More

November 15, 2013 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding in Birmingham, Alabama, Finn Apparel, a new clothing startup  has designed a line of unique apparel.  The campaigns original goal of raising $14,800 has been surpassed standing over $30,000. The campaign benefited by their selection by Kickstarter as the “project of the day” raising their profile… Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 1:11 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Pranay and Paul are two high school friends that teamed up to bring The Apollo Technical Pen and Drafting Scale to Kickstarter. To say the effort has been successful would be an understatement, as the campaign has tripled its goal with a month left to go,… Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 12:11 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

$1.1 million is an ambitious goal no matter what the project, but the developers at Cyan, Inc. set and met this lofty goal for their new game Obduction. Cyan, Inc. is the same company that created Myst back in 1993. Myst was the best-selling PC game in history for… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 12:36 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Minneapolis-based SmartThings Kickstarted their way to $1.2 million, closing their campaign in September of 2012. Over 5,500 backers pitched in for the home automation system. SmartThings makes it easy to connect the things in your physical world to the Internet. You can monitor, control, automate,… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 11:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The same individual backed over 150 projects. We have been in communication with a number of project owners, all of whom have been duped out of money by this scammer. This scam has been going on for months; one project backer lost over $5000, and… Read More

November 12, 2013 @ 12:49 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Light Harmonic has done this crowdfunding thing before. Specifically, they completed a campaign to the tune of $303,000+ on Kickstarter in September of this year for the Geek Out, a digital-to-analog converter for laptops that aimed to pump up the tunes coming out of a… Read More

November 12, 2013 @ 10:05 am By JD Alois  |  

With only a few days left to go in this crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, LUCI, Advanced Lucid Dream Inducer was cancelled after having raised $363,302 on a goal of just $40,000.  Funds raised had reportedly broken the $400,000 mark but as allegations of fraud started… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

PCMag | Can Crowdfunding Give the Private Space Race a Boost? PCMag takes a look at the private space race in the context of a company called the LiftPort Group. LiftPort raised over $110,000 on Kickstarter to build a prototype with an eye toward building… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 10:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Game developers crowdfunding their latest title should take note of an effort on the part of Reddit user Revisor007, who has been creating a weekly crowdfunding roundup every week for a few months now in /r/Games and /r/CrowdfundedGames. It could provide a nice opportunity for… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Initial Crowdfunding Goal was $50,000. Set 48 Stretch Goals. Mars Attacks launched their crowdfunding campaign back on October 4th.  Their first objective was to raise $50,000.  This goal was crushed within minutes of their launch.  Within 3 days the campaign stood at well over $200,000… Read More

November 10, 2013 @ 1:10 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The New York Times | Robert Rhinehart: Dreaming of the Skies and Traveling Light Rob Rhinehart is the Y Combinator-backed founder behind Soylent, a meal replacement drink that famously crowdfunded on Crowdhoster. This piece in The New York Times frames Rhinehart as an ardent minimalist, which forms… Read More