Tagged: products

July 8, 2013 @ 9:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Last month we reported on D2M, a design firm based in San Francisco that appears to have raised just under $700,000 on Kickstarter and Indiegogo for two different projects. Both projects are late to ship, although according to recent updates the Stratus is approaching completion…. Read More

June 24, 2013 @ 11:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Production problems have forced delays in delivery of the GameStick to backers of their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. The GameStick is a highly portable Android-powered gaming system that raised just short of $650,000 from over 5,500 backers after receiving press mentions from TNW, Engadget, VentureBeat and… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 7:32 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Daniel Haarburger is a junior at the Institute of Design at Stanford University, and he already has one successful Kickstarter campaign under his belt. Now his second is fully funded. The WINGStand was his first project, and it is both insanely simple and extremely useful…. Read More

June 14, 2013 @ 3:06 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

One company has been involved in two crowdfunding campaigns for two projects that are both late to ship, and this has all taken place on the two largest rewards-based crowdfunding sites in the world. Design to Matter (D2M) raised a staggering $621,000 for the Instacube… Read More

May 1, 2013 @ 7:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding is changing the way products are funded, made and sold to the public. Here we explore how and why this trend is taking hold as well as some of the risks the trend faces long-term.

March 5, 2013 @ 10:52 pm By CrowdCrux  |  

From artists to entrepreneurs, the media has portrayed crowdfunding as a way for individuals like you and me to pitch our greatest ideas to the world in the hopes of securing financing, generating buzz, and building a foundation of early-adopter customers. However, some of the… Read More

February 6, 2013 @ 6:01 pm By Fast Company  |  

When Twine’s creators signed up for Kickstarter, they thought they’d make about 200 devices using the same $20 toaster oven they had purchased for the prototype. Then they raised more than $500,000. Twine is exactly the type of sensor-stuffed, Wi-Fi-connected gadget you would expect to take… Read More

December 6, 2012 @ 2:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The crowdfunding platforms that make the most noise (see: Kickstarter) are becoming more and more reluctant to accept product-focused offerings (see: KickstarterReject.com) for a variety of reasons: patent concerns, fulfillment concerns, liability concerns and the list goes on and on.  Are their concerns valid?  Debatable,… Read More