Tagged: kickstarter

October 16, 2013 @ 7:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Offer Ongoing As Minimum is Reached. Georgia-based SparkMarket has announced the success of the first crowdfunding campaign on their equity platform. Bohemian Guitars has hit their goal of crowdfunding $100,000, raising money to grow their budding guitar-making business. SparkMarket is calling it a first in… Read More

October 15, 2013 @ 1:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cincinnati tech startup Kapture, the audio recording wristband that allows you to save and share what was just said, is recently beat their Kickstarter campaign goal. Over 1,228 backers supported the month-long campaign with a total of $162,386 being pledged, exceeding their goal of $150,000, and… Read More

October 15, 2013 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

For anyone who is interested in running a music project on Kickstarter AND you happen to be in NYC this Thursday, they are holding a meetup at mission control from 9:30AM to 11:30M. “Come meet the friendly faces of Kickstarter, fellow members of the music community… Read More

October 15, 2013 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter has charted a course of global expansion.  Recently they launched in Canada and quickly captured an impressive list of crowdfunding campaigns from the provinces up North.  They have also been talking for some time about extending their reach into other english speaking countries and… Read More

October 14, 2013 @ 11:42 am By JD Alois  |  

The Ghost blogging platform launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in April of 2013.  The open source platform is totally written in javascript and promises true one button deploys.  The crowfunding campaign wanted to raise £25,000 but the interest in this new application showed considerably… Read More

October 13, 2013 @ 5:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

With more than two weeks left in their crowdfunding campaign on KickstAfter, the team at PicoBrew have a solid success.  With the initial goal set at $150,000 they have more than doubled that amount.   The product has been over 3 years in development for… Read More

October 13, 2013 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak wanted to share their revolutionary creation back in 1976 – they did not organize a press conference.  They went to the only place they new (or could afford to go to) to show off their iconic Apple I –… Read More

October 12, 2013 @ 3:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Structure Sensor, from Occipital in San Francisco, is crowdfunding on Kickstarter.  Their initial goal of $100,000 is a distant memory as they approach $1,000,000 raised.  After only 7 days crowdfunding they were at 7 times their initial goa and after watching their pitch video… Read More

October 12, 2013 @ 1:46 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently wrote about Travail, a restaurant in Robbinsville, Minnesota that aimed to bring fine dining food to the masses. Well, their round has just closed on Kickstarter to the tune of over $255,000. It is a huge windfall for the restaurant, which will use… Read More

October 11, 2013 @ 10:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In a recent blog post commemorating Kickstarter’s third birthday, Yancey Strickler shared some pictures of early Kickstarter designs that may have helped formulate today’s design. One of Kickstarter’s strengths is their clean, usable design. It is probably one of the top contributing factors to their… Read More

October 11, 2013 @ 7:31 am By JD Alois  |  

FlameStower, a device that can charge your cell phone by using fire, has beaten their goal on Kickstarter by raising over $38,000 on a $15,000 goal.  The campaign continues to raise funds and is scheduled to close on October 24th.  With the successful funding round… Read More

October 10, 2013 @ 7:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter officially launched in Canada on September 9th – even though they had accepted crowdfunding projects from our friends up North for some time.  The experienced a strong launch out of the gate with dozens of campaigns which quickly grew to hundreds with thousands in… Read More

October 10, 2013 @ 3:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perfect Match for Apple iPad. As soon as we watched the Kickstarter pitch video provided by the ISKN team you could see the product was going to be a crowdfunding hit.  This smart iPad cover does everything you want it to do.  Their goal was… Read More

October 10, 2013 @ 10:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Innovative pens tend to do fairly well on rewards-based crowdfunding web sites like Kickstarter, and the Polar Pen is no exception. The “world’s first modular pen made from magnets” has raised CAD $700,000 with a week left in the campaign. To be fair, this pen… Read More

October 9, 2013 @ 1:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A new project on Kickstarter promises backers an “artificially intelligent robotic bartender.” The Monsieur is like a soda fountain for cocktails, and it has raised almost three-quarters of a $100,000 crowdfunding goal with over a month left in the campaign. The precision of the software… Read More

October 9, 2013 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Independent game developer Digitalis is having another go at crowdfunding their first person space simulator game on Kickstarter.  With a lower goal and re-invigorated project, Skyjacker hopes to raise $150,000 over the next few weeks to be able to help fund a game release date… Read More

October 8, 2013 @ 8:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Below are six fashion campaigns crowdfunding on Kickstarter now.  If you are interested check them out on Kickstarter today where you may be one of the first to enjoy these high quality products.  Otherwise you will have to wait until you see them in a… Read More

October 8, 2013 @ 10:01 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The second campaign for Reaper Miniature Bones is just a week in at the time of writing, but already the campaign has raised almost $1.5 million on Kickstarter. This is especially remarkable when considering the first campaign for these small gaming miniatures raised over $3.4… Read More

October 7, 2013 @ 3:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is the 5th Kickstarter campaign the team at Mantic Games has run and it seems that have it down pat.  Their initial goal of crowdunding $50,000 was crushed on day one within minutes of launching.  As of today they are over $224,000 raised with… Read More

October 6, 2013 @ 1:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Classified:  The Edward Snowden Story” has already raised $87,700 on their own crowdfunding site.  Add to that amount $746,050 raised via Bitcoin and project creators Travis Doering and Jason Bourque are well on their way to crowdfund their $1.7 Million goal. Bourque will be the… Read More