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IndieGoGo Raises $1.5 Million For Its Crowdfunding Platform
IndieGoGo, a crowdfunding platform that was founded in 2008, has raised a $1.5 million funding round led by Metamorphic Ventures and Zynga cofounder Steve Schoettler. As with other crowdfunding...
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The Oatmeal Helps New Tesla Museum Raise One Million Smackers
The Oatmeal, who really should freaking start making comics and stop helping museums in Long Island that no one thought about until a week ago, just announced that he and the Internet raised $1 million...
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This Robotic Dragonfly Will Soon Flit Into Your Nightmares For $99
Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a robotic dragonfly that can hover, dive, and climb like a real insect. With the help of a $1,000,000 grant from the Air Force, the team has built multiple...
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Diet Robot, Autom, Now Available On Indiegogo, Will Ship In Six Months
Just in time for post-holiday guilt comes Autom, the diet robot that reminds you to eat healthy, asks you how much you exercised per day, and generally sits there being judgmental as you stuff your...
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2012: The Year Crowdfunding Was Kickstarted Into The Mainstream
There we were, circled around a bachelor party campfire and drunk on keg beer, discussing the viability of using Kickstarter to fund a sex toy startup. My buddy Derk (he goes by Dangerous D at karaoke)...
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The Bonsai Is A Shaving Accessory That Hopes To Be One Designer’s...
The Bonsai is gadget with a soul, one that hopes to make a global difference by changing the way we go about an activity many do on a daily basis. It’s a shaving accessory, and it’s being funded via...
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Indiegogo Founder Slava Rubin Says Crowdfunding Takes Down The “Gatekeepers”
Slava Rubin knows a thing or two about crowdfunding. Founded in 2008, his company, Indiegogo is a major funding powerhouse, bringing together such disparate projects like the Misfit Shine and The...
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Backed Or Whacked: The Highs And Lows Of Smartphone Companion Devices
Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals. Follow...
View ArticleGoatse.cx Is Reborn… As An Email Address Provider
It was nigh on half a decade ago that I first met the fell demon they call Goatse.cx. It haunted my dreams – the ring, the red, the evident pleasure – and even today I am loath to type in those five...
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Backed Or Whacked: Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Laziness
Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals. Follow...
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Meet Buddy, Another Ambitious, Crowdfunded Smart Watch
Haven’t we all suffered enough abuse at the hands of Big Smart Watch? No? Well now there’s Buddy, a Bluetooth smartwatch that aims to solve the problems associated with all those other watches. Buddy...
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LifeBeam Brings Fighter Pilot Heart-Monitoring Technology To Your Bicycle Helmet
LifeBeam is kicking off an Indiegogo campaign for a new smart cycling helmet that uses smart sensors to track your heart rate. LifeBeam is an Israel-based startup that thus far has specialized in...
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Backed Or Whacked: Pursuits Of Pet Peeves
Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals. Follow...
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An Interview With Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin On The Wild Rise Of Crowdsourcing
When you think of crowdsourcing, you usually imagine something like the Pebble smart watch or the Misfit Shine – gadgets that are hard to build in mainstream ways but take off by sparking a...
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U.K. Homegrown Crowdfunding Platforms Band Together To Create Self-Regulatory...
It’s not easy being a crowdfunding tiddler in a pond where sharks like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are known to swim. Which doubtless explains why a group of homegrown U.K. crowdfunding sites have banded...
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Shenzhen Manufacturer Coconut Workshop Gives Back To The Earth With Cases For...
Long-time Shenzhen-based electronics manufacturer Ben Dolgin-Gardner took a look around at what he was building and decided to make a bit of a difference. His idea, Coconut Cases, isn’t particularly...
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Indiegogo Suffers DDOS Aimed At YourAnonymousNews Campaign
When there is no central authority, who has the authority to sell t-shirts? That question came to a head over the past few days when YourAnonNews announced it planned to create something like a...
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Crowdfunding Industry Celebrates First Anniversary of JOBS Act Despite Delays
Editor’s note: Danae Ringelmann is a co-founder of Indiegogo. Prior to that, she was a securities analyst at Cowen & Co. where she covered entertainment companies, including Pixar, Lionsgate,...
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Newbie Social Gaming App WriteOn! Gets An Indiegogo Campaign To Raise...
Israeli app developer golden fingers has taken to Indiegogo to raise cash for its first app: a social game called WriteOn!. The crowdfunding campaign is not to fund the creation of the app itself —...
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JamStik, The Mini Guitar That Connects To Your iPhone, Hits Indiegogo
When we first saw the Jamstik at CES this year we called it amazing. Now you can call it yours. The Jamstik is a MIDI guitar with real strings. It allows you to fret and strum like a real guitar and...
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