Tagged: manufacturing

June 8, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal  |  

When Spark Devices CEO Zach Supalla launched the company’s first Kickstarter crowdfunding round in November, the campaign failed. Fundraising fell $120,000 short of the startup’s $250,000 goal. About five months later — with a new, simpler product — the Minneapolis-based company began a second round of fundraising,… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 9:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Buccaneer 3D Printer by Pirate3D is preparing a Kickstarter launch set for May 30th, and they promise the “most affordable consumer 3D printer” on the market. From the press release… The Buccaneer® 3D printer has a list price of $347, and at half the… Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 11:10 am By The Boston Globe  |  

As a young industrial designer fresh out of school, David Laituri worked at General Motors. “There were American cars and there were foreign cars, and if you had a Honda, you had to park it in the far parking lot,” he says. That was the… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 7:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ouya raised over $8 million on Kickstarter last year followed by a $15 million round led by Kleiner Perkins, becoming a darling of the gaming media as an example of crowdfunding’s power to democratize a gaming industry long dominated by large publishers and manufacturers. Now… Read More

May 10, 2013 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Othermill is a product of Otherfab, an engineering group based in San Francisco. The Othermill aims to bring high-precision milling to home offices much the same way consumer 3D printers have done so for 3D printing. Milling is the “opposite” of printing in that… Read More

May 3, 2013 @ 8:04 am By Plastics News  |  

Crowd funding, idea development and product marketing were on the minds of attendees at an Industrial Designers Society of America regional event. “Designer as Entrepreneur” was the theme for the April 12-13 design conference of the IDSA western district in Long Beach. Jason Morris served… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 1:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A big part of the crowdfunding narrative has been centered around the concept of concious capitalism and an increased awareness of the complex relationship between industry and society. Through crowdfunding, backers and investors have an opportunity to vote with their wallets and reward those companies that consider… Read More