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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Eric Migicovsky recently appeared at the LeWeb conference in London. We share two videos from the conference, in which Migicovsky talks about his watch, the Kickstarter campaign, as well as a variety of other interesting topics related to crowdfunding.
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...
Speaks in Boston at the World Congress Leadership Summit on Telemedicine at the Colonnade Hotel , Eric Migicovsky, Founder and Lead Designer at Pebble Technology, described years of fruitlessly...
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.
The team had a little over a month to raise the money before their Kickstarter pitch expired. To Migicovsky's complete shock, $100,000 was raised in just two hours. It took 28 hours to exceed...
The cookoo™ watch is a stylish extension of your smartphone that helps you manage the hassle of constant interruptions. Now, even if your phone is muted, you can be silently alerted when you get an...
"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...
Clint Arthur interviews Rahul Baghat, COO of Pebble Technology about their company's record-setting product launch on Kickstarter. To get 12 more Success Secrets interviews go to...
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...
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting some of the most successful, interesting, and innovative crowdfunding campaigns of 2012. This week’s category is most-funded campaigns, and we’re kicking the series off with the most successful project to date – the Pebble smart watch.
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...
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...
Unlike some of the other smartwatch concepts that have been dreamed up in recent months, the Strata is the brainchild of a known quantity. MetaWatch has been tackling the problem of putting...
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