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More gadget makers will follow in Pebble Technology's footsteps by using crowdfunding site Kickstarter to raise money to make their products, according to Eric Migicovsky, the company's...
Writing on the project’s Kickstarter page, co-founder Eric Migicovsky explained the constant travelling to Taiwan, coupled with the process of developing larger orders of the smartwatch, have...
The watches were due to be delivered in September. The company's going to miss that date, CEO and cofounder Eric Migicovsky wrote in an update on its Kickstarter page: "In terms of...
Eric Migicovsky and his team of six developed Pebble and launched an amazingly successful Kickstarter campaign that raised $10.6 million — its goal was $100,000. Pebble has myriad useful...
Pebble’s user interface engineer, Martijn Thé, had a clear goal: “I figured Pebble should be so easy that our grandmothers should be able to pick it up and use it right away.” The difficult...
Kickstarter records have been dropping like the proverbial flies in 2012 -- too loaded down with cash to remain airborne. Earlier this year game developer set a new record for crowdfunding that seemed like it would be pretty difficult to break -- over $3 million dollars was raised by Double Fine to create a new adventure title in a single Kickstarter campaign. Yet just a few weeks later, the Kickstarter project for a Pebble Smartwatch that can connect via Bluetooth to an iOS or Android device has already raised over $4.2 million... and it's still got thirty days to go.
Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky turned to Kickstarter, posting a video of a Pebble prototype and its various possibilities—including mail and messaging, music controls, exercise data tracking and...
RunKeeper is exactly what it sounds like: a companion app for runners and joggers. Like many of its competitors, it uses a phone’s GPS sensor to calculate distance, time and speed, in addition to...
A new wristwatch got off the ground with Kickstarter – a site where you just need enough people to say 'I'd pay for that'.The Pebble watch is certainly technologically innovative;...
Crowdfunding is a typical case of creative destruction in an unwary and much-criticized industry. The big banks view this opportunity as very small. This is typical of the way old players get...
"Pebble is like the Facebook IPO of crowdfunding—they have to deliver or it will bust the [crowdfunding] marketplace," said Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist at Menlo Ventures, who...
Spark, a Wi-Fi-controlled lighting system, has announced that their product will be compatible with the Pebble smart watch that able to raised $10 million on crowdfunding site-Kickstarter, which...
But after missing its initial ship date of last November, and with few updates from the Pebble team, it also quickly became an example of the dangers of crowdsourcing. A ton of funding, after all,...
Almost a half-year after it was initially expected, the most successful Kickstarter project so far, the Pebble Smart Watch, is finally shipping out to its many thousands of backers.
In this initial release,the SDK will be fairly limited;developers won't yet have access to the accelerometer-or communication between watchfaces-and-smartphones. In a post on crowdfunding...
Pebble, the company behind the eponymous smartwatch, announced on Thursday that it secured $15 million in Series A funding from VC firm Charles River Ventures.
At last check the Pebble Smartwatch has rounded up over $8 million on Kickstarter with two weeks left to go in the campaign. That's a figure that shatters all previous crowdfunding records on Kickstarter and most other platforms.
Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky will be sharing their success story at the next Crowdfunding & Cocktails Event in Palo Alto on May 9th. The gathering is part of the SoHo Loft series of Capital Creation and Crowdfunding events. (You can see a little of Crowdsourcing.org's coverage of the last Crowdfunding and Cocktails event in Manhattan here.)
In a historic day for the crowdfunding industry, the Pebble Smartwatch project today smashed the $10 million barrier on Kickstarter — raising three times more than Double Fine Adventure, Kickstarter’s previous record-holder, and 100 times more than the project’s original funding goal of $100,000.
The watch costs $80 and is far less complex than the Pebble. The watch uses a small CR2032 battery and doesn’t need to be recharged. The best thing? It has a single button on it that can be used to...
For starters, it’s good to know what areas (or categories) should be focused on based on past Kickstarter data. It turns out that “Theater” and “Dance” projects have the highest success rates at...
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