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Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. It is a great platform for artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers, writers, illustrators, explorers, curators, promoters, performers, and...
With the help of Kickstarter and all of its project backers, Scott Wilson's product idea, the iPod nano watch kit TikTok+LunaTik, will be made possible. From the day this project was posted on...
Crowdfunding is unique because KickStarter requires a minimum threshold. In other words, users searching for funding from a KickStarter campaign have to meet a minimum goal in order to get the...
KickStarter, which makes money by taking a 5 percent cut of raised funds, has evolved modestly in its almost two years. One of the more significant changes was the introduction earlier this month...
Kickstarter is the perfect example of what a brilliant idea can do and how it can affect other ideas. Right now we are seeing many other crowdfunding websites trying to reach a large crowd of ideas...
The Kickstarter campaign, “Libyan Youth in Revolution,” aims to raise $30,000 in one month. That money will go to Anderson’s bare necessities like food, shelter and protection as she ventures into...
Kickstarter presented the following charts on their second birthday (all data represents activity between April 28, 2009 - April 27, 2011): Dollars Pledged by Month Projects Launched by Month...
While entrepreneurship projects such as the ill-fated Diaspora do exist on Kickstarter, they get relatively little attention on the site when compared to the overwhelming popularity of the arts....
Author Ryan Deussing shares the lessons he learned from his own experience with Kickstarter. These are as follows: 1) They treat search as a form of browsing - not as the opposite of browsing....
John and Anthony of ToneLoof needed money to make a feature-length documentary on street photographer, Vivian Maier. To make this a reality, they turned to Kickstarter and have raised $105,042 from...
Spencer Tunick is a world-renowned installation artist whose signature theme is gathering hundreds to thousands of naked people in public places. He wants his next installation to be at...
Self-described "Design Geek," Gary Hustwit, was conducting interviews with his cinematographer for his third documentary, "Urbanized," about urban design, when he hit a...
A camera that allows users of the iPhone 4 to make panoramic videos. This was crowdfunded through Kickstarter - $20,000 was raised from 1,023 backers.
Jennifer Fox produced a documentary film about the relationship between a Tibetan master and his son, called MY REINCARNATION. It was received very well in New York City, but Fox wanted the world...
Inspired by Neil Gaiman's book, "The Price," cinematographer Christopher Salmon wanted to turn the book into a richly animated film. he put the same short video on Kickstarter, and...
According to their pitch, "First, [Joullies] absorb extra thermal energy in your coffee when it’s served too hot, cooling it down to a drinkable temperature three times faster than normal....
Blue Like Jazz, a book on Christian spirituality book by Donald Miller, has sold more than 1.3 million copies since its release in 2003. It was slated to become a movie, but fell $125,000 short...
All 16 of the films shown during the 2nd annual Kickstarter film festival are definitely worth a look, but the four below are standouts: Twelve O'clock; Our Nixon; The Elders; The...
The crowd-funding site, Kickstarter which invites users to invest in various projects with small sum “pledges” that only have to be paid if a project reaches its funding goal has become the go-to...
The duo of TechShop and Kickstarter is really a new paradigm for manufacturing since we all know that Techshop is increasingly helping guys (and gals) with a dream transform prototype into...
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