December 5, 2013 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Technical Machine is a startup that up to now has been based at Olin College. They’re also the outfit behind the Tessel, a device we’ve reported on in the past. The Tessel is a small microcontroller that interfaces with real-life objects and can be programmed… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 10:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Using a service like LendingClub for the first time can be a big daunting. The peer-to-peer lending platform can offer interest rates lower than many credit cards for some borrowers. Having said that, where do you start? How hard is it to apply for and… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BrewDog is in the midst of an extremely aggressive period of growth now that the Scottish brewery has managed to raise millions of euros via equity crowdfunding raises. The latest expansion project for the brewery is a BrewDog bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo,… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 9:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Misfit Wearables has raised $15.2 million in a round led by Horizons Ventures. According to an article in TechCrunch, all previous investors in Misfit Wearables also participated in the round. It’s a big vote of confidence for this emergent wearable tech company from Silicon Valley…. Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kano is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter to bring a new PC kit to market. The kit is touted as a “computer and coding kit for all ages, all over the world,” and the campaign to fund it has already crossed $1 million in funding with… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 10:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Adam Chapnick is a high-energy evangelist at Indiegogo, and he was recently featured on an episode of the Innovation Crush podcast. The hour-long interview gives some really interesting insight into topics like the early days of Indiegogo and how the platform formed. Chapnick also shares… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 10:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This week, PBS MediaShift is running a series of articles on various aspects of the topic of crowdfunding. The first article, a birds-eye view of proposed rules for equity crowdfunding, was published today by Paul Spinrad. RELATED | How the SEC Listened to the Crowd for… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 9:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Haytham Nasr is a co-founder of mygroup.me, an entertainment group based in Beirut, Lebanon. In an equity crowdfunding raise, he and his team crowdfunded a “million-dollar bar” in Lebanon called mybar. The bar was a huge success initially, and within a year of opening investors… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 9:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Every year, nonprofit organization Wikimedia seeks funding from the crowd to support initiatives including their free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. This year’s effort has just launched, and Wikipedia is seeking to raise $50 million from the crowd. Wikipedia is the #5 most visited web site in… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 2:08 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We’re growing increasingly fond of Quora as a resource for crowdfunding tips and insights from the likes of future Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler and Yan Budman, Director of Marketing at Indiegogo. Here are a selection of Quora questions and answers we found interesting this week…… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 10:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: At least one crowdfunding platform has stepped forward saying they were left off the list. iFunding emailed Crowdfund Insider to clarify that they have raised about $3 million on their platform since launch. RockThePost has shared a top-ten list of equity crowdfunding platforms currently operating in the… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 9:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier this year real estate crowdfunding platform Prodigy Network and CEO Rodrigo Nino were talking about crowdfunding a hotel in downtown New York just one block away from the World Trade Center. Now we now have details of what that project may come to be,… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 8:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jon Shafer successfully crowdfunded his strategy game At The Gates on Kickstarter. The round closed in May of 2013 after having raised just over $106,000 on a goal of just $40,000. Shafer had some cred in the gaming world from being a designer on Civitization V… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 8:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Think you need a world-changing idea to be successful in the world of crowdfunding? Think again. The COBURNS iPad stand is not world-changing. In fact, it is ridiculously simple. The minimalist iPad stands are made of exotic hardwoods, the lighter being a Bird’s eye Maple… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 7:59 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Today is #GivingTuesday, a day dedicated to charitable giving. This year, #GivingTuesday is also marked by the launch of a new crowdfunding platform that aims to help high-quality charities build communities around their causes and tap into an ongoing source of funding. The platform is… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Misfit Wearables launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in November of last year for the Misfit Shine, a wearable activity tracker that aimed to compete with other stalwarts in the space like offerings from Nike and Fitbit. The campaign raised over $800,000, which makes it… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 11:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

TubeStart recently announced the addition of Google Analytics functionality that will allow crowdfunders using their platform to track their campaign activity using one of the world’s most popular free analytics suites. You can track traffic to your campaign page, see where visitors are coming from,… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Polygon | How devs manage the energy of their crowdfunding communities Managing crowds during crowdfunding campaigns can be tricky business. Polygon explores that reality in this piece by interviewing a dozen game developers who successfully raised money on Kickstarter, focusing specifically on their experiences in… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s enough to make you sick. A UK man named James Howells was cleaning house and decided to throw away an old hard drive he hadn’t used in years, figuring any files he needed were already transferred to his new laptop. The problem? The hard… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The second annual Global Crowdfunding Convention and Bootcamp for 2013 has come and gone. Ruth Hedges was the primary organizer of the event, and she was interviewed by Doug Atkin of “From the Cloud to the Crowd” about her background and how her experience as… Read More