February 17, 2014 @ 11:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

@konklone @xor @knowtheory it’s a complex situation that is fortunately new for us. We are working hard to respond, with hopefully more soon — Fred Benenson (@fredbenenson) February 17, 2014 Kickstarter engineer Fred Benenson was vocal on this Hacker News thread about revelations that Kickstarter… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

After raising over $160,000 on Indiegogo, the iQi wireless charging device is now available online through fonesalesman.com. The device was reviewed on TechCrunch yesterday and was hit with some hard criticism about the reliability of the device, although it seems uncertain as to whether shortcomings should… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 11:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If we were tallying states up today, Kansas, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin have made equity crowdfunding legal and are in some stage of implementation. Alabama, Washington, Maine and North Carolina are all considering exemptions. Of course, that may change tomorrow. Amidst all the hoopla about a… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 10:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Tomorrow YouTube content creator crowdfunding platform TubeStart will begin a new weekly tradition by holding a Google Hangout. It’s called the “Weekly Crowdfunding Crash Course for YouTube Creators,” which tells you just about all you need to know. If you’re on YouTube and you’re interested… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 10:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Every day, 4,000 people die from AIDS. 35 million people around the world are currently living with HIV. It’s one of the great tragedies of our time. Now a group of scientists have gathered under the Immunity Project in hopes of eradicating the disease by… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 11:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’re moving full steam ahead with Inside Crowdfunding, and we’re excited to announce that the guest for episiode #2 will be Adam Draper, CEO and founder of Boost VC and fourth generation venture capitalist. Why am I excited to have Adam on the show? Because… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Maine House of Representatives have approved an intrastate crowdfunding bill by a vote of 129-1. The bill now heads to the Senate for final approval. Rep. Ricky Long (R-Sherman) cast the only nay vote. We’ve reached out to the bill’s primary sponsor, State Senator Justin… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 11:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

CircleUp, a crowdfunding platform for connecting investors with consumer brands, is partnering up with Virgin America in an initiative that hopes to generate some real-world business for consumer-facing brands and products that crowdfund on CircleUp. According to TechCrunch, Virgin America will use CircleUp as a… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 10:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Washington State has been on the march toward an intrastate crowdfunding exemption, and yesterday the effort took one more step toward becoming reality. House Bill 2023 was approved with an 89-9 vote. The nine nay votes all came via House Republicans. The bill itself was… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 11:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

According to reports, French President Francois Hollande came away from a recent visit to Silicon Valley bullish on equity crowdfunding – so bullish, in fact, that he is rumored to be considering an executive order in March that would allow startups and small businesses the… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A Kickstarter campaign with some serious star power behind it is dangerously close to losing out on over half a million dollars in crowdfunding cash. Of course, that also means they’re on the precipice of closing a huge $600,000+ crowdfunding round. The next 33 hours… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo’s stats show that the platform (and crowdfunding in a more general sense) is a powerful tool for directing capital toward female-founded businesses and endeavors… In fact, we’ve found that about 47% of campaigns that reach their funding goals on Indiegogo are run by women…. Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundersClub has announced the launch of the FundersClub Theme Series, a series of managed funds focused on early-stage companies in specific verticals. The first three funds will focus on health & wellness, Bitcoin & payments and hardware. FundersClub is an invite-only equity crowdfunding play. Just last month the… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 10:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could you imagine being able to visualize the sheer size of Wikipedia’s English articles? The free online encyclopedia has been in the works for well over a decade now, and – according to itself, ironically – it now nets 500 million unique visitors and 18… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s one of the top 1,000 web sites in the world. It’s been used to fund small, personal pet projects and it’s been used to spur enormous companies. It creates jobs. It’s a platform, an idea, and now even a verb. Do you start a… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 1:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

TechCrunch has an awards series every year called the Crunchies, and Kickstarter just won the biggest Crunchie of them all. Kickstarter is TechCrunch’s “Best Overall Startup” for 2013. Kickstarter wasn’t the only winner from the wonderful world of crowdfunding in 2013. Oculus VR took home… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 12:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

When Invested.in co-founder Alon Goren approached me a while back with an idea to launch a periodic live show about crowdfunding, I was really excited about it. Now I can announce that we’ve completed episode one. We’re calling it Inside Crowdfunding, and we’ll be holding a… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 12:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

On this week’s episode of Inside Crowdfunding, we interview Tubestart co-founder and CEO Josef Holm to get more information about his crowdfunding platform for YouTube content creators. We also discuss Tubestart’s new charity-related initiative and Holm’s recent ReelSEO article about MCNs participating in the crowdfunding… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google, Bloomberg, Xiaomi, Dropbox, Netflix, Airbnb, Nike, Zipdial… DonorsChoose.org? You read that right. DonorsChoose has become a staple among the annual list of most innovative companies compiled by Fast Company, and this year the site has muscled into the top 10. DonorsChoose.org is a donation-based… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 10:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Changes of address have been one of the most painful things project creators and their backers have had to deal with on Kickstarter. Now the world’s largest rewards-based funding platform has released a new feature to help backers deal with that very problem. This comes… Read More