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To celebrate, they’d like to take a closer look at Kickstarter's first million backers. Interestingly the milestones of 1,000,000 backers and $100,000,000 pledged came within 48 hours of one...
Mississippi, which doesn't have clutches of major film studios or deep-pocketed film investors, stands to gain significantly from crowdfunding's ability to bring many backers to a...
Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding sites for creative people to showcase their ideas and ask for funding. Serial backers are always testing themselves on their ability to pick...
OUYA, the company behind the Android gaming console that became a Kickstarter sensation when it raised over $8.5 million on the crowdfunding platform, has announced its release schedule for the...
“We saw, almost two years ago, that there was a change in the way people were communicating,” explains de Cabo of the inspiration for the service. “There was a more visual way of communicating –...
In a blog post Thursday titled "Kickstarter Is Not A Store," the company took another step to reinforce investors' confidence. The blog explained that project creators now will be...
Seth Quest launched a Kickstarter campaign in March 2011 for Hanfree, a standing iPad mount he’d devised. The crowdfunding campaign was a success, and he raised $35,000. Production was a disaster,...
“Crowdfunding is the ultimate form of consumer research,” says Scott Popma, an intellectual-property lawyer who advises companies about crowdfunding. “You are not just asking people’s opinions—you...
OUYA, the Android-based gaming console that was successfully funded through an $8.5 million Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, will start shipping to backers on March 28. The company behind the...
A new crowdfunding site called Jump Start City will launch in a few days time and aims to build a community of backers that will differentiate it from established platforms like Kickstarter and...
Emphas.is claims to have reached an agreement with Reporters Without Borders and Escapade Insurances in Canada to offer insurance plans to participating photojournalists.
Cargo, the film that Rachel Perrie supported
Last week a woman named Rachel Perrie became the millionth person to pledge financial support to a project posted on Kickstarter. It's a remarkable feat, given that company hardly two years old, and it comes on the back of another milestone — $100 million has been pledged on the Kickstarter platform.
Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickland and Fred Benenson penned a blog post earlier today to commemorate the dual accomplishment. Far from the self-congratulatory back patting you might expect, the post provides an interesting portrait of the state of crowdfunding: who's contributing; how much money they give; do they come back?
HealthTap will use the money to accelerate growth, recruit talent, and engage more physicians and patients in its online HealthTap community.
Filmmakers / Actors Etta Devine and Gabriel Diani (The Selling) agree that most people think crowdfunding is going to be easy. That by simply launching your campaign, backers from all over the...
Outgrow.me's Sam Fellig explains how crowdfunding is different from simply pre-ordering a product, and why backers are a crowdfunding campaign manager's most valuable asset.
Business owners and just about anyone that needs some traction for projects will find a solution at Peer Backers given the crowfunding platform it offers. With Peer Backers, it will be possible to...
Crowdfunding projects are at the mercy of financial backers to determine whether they will become a reality. Since cash is required, you must put forth your best effort not to waste the monetary...
This is the third year in a row I participated in a panel discussion at Womex, the world’s largest world music conference. Musician and cultural activist Alan Bern was also on the panel. He is the director of a band called The Other Europeans, who was selected from over 700 bands to showcase their CD at Womex. This was as much a challenge as an opportunity for him and his band.
Bern, who needed more than $10,000 dollars to fly his 14 member band to Copenhagen, chose to employ crowdfunding as a way to raise the budget. After a 43-day Kickstarter campaign, he successfully raised the funds, sharing some interesting stats and lessons with us along the way.
Bern wrote three posts, with audio and video, spaced across approximately three weeks. He reached out to his first circle of friends and fans via e-mail (450), Facebook (1075), the band’s fanpage on Facebook (531), and another music fanpage (500). Each posting ignited a wave of support, resulting in 138 backers that contributed $10,971 dollars.
Community Radio for Mining Resistance successfully reached its funding gold of $2,000 from 54 backers on Kickstarter.“Our Kickstarter project is to build a community radio station for the...
Double Fine Productions, the San Francisco-based video game developer behind Psychonauts and Brütal Legend, today broke a number of crowdfunding records in its wildly successful effort to fund a new point-and-click adventure game.
Using Kickstarter, the game development studio raised $950,000 USD in the 24-hour window following the project posting — well over its initial goal of $400,000. At the outset, Double Fine allotted one month of time to reach that funding goal. At the time of writing, the total amount raised stands at $1,001,988 from 26,000 backers.
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