Crowd Funding Insights
Kickstarter is not a store. Indiegogo is not a store. Crowdfunding is not buying something — you’re merely donating some money, and you might get a reward for your pledge. Caveat emptor doesn …
Based on recent media reports, it looks like crowdfunding is now in the “disillusionment” phase of the famous Gartner hype cycle, after peaking a few years back. I will argue that crowdfunding …
crowdfunding’s future as a first-class financing method seems to be fairly certain. It has developed from a niche online-only concept used by game developers and tech companies into a serious …
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. In 2013 a group called NSID (Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery) launched a …
Crowdfunding tech can serve backers poorly, even when the thing gets made Another spate of failed and much-delayed high-profile crowdfunded projects should give pause to potential funders …
and I’m not convinced the crowdfunding landscape is noticeably better now that the platform is live. At TechCrunch, Haje (He/Him) covered general tech news and focused mostly on hardware.
Over the course of the past five years, the crowdfunding industry has grown from a fringe phenomenon, allowing indie artists to monetize social capital, to a multibillion-dollar industry. Now …
Look for major media outlets to incorporate crowdfunding tech into programing, allowing the audience to participate, and even influence the outcome of certain shows. Shark Tank has already …
Editor’s note: Sandeep Sood is founder of Oakland, Calif.-based Monsoon+RainFactory, a product house that conceptualizes, designs, develops and markets mobile and web applications. Ever been to …
In Los Angeles, a new crowdfunding platform called Fund Dreamer, launched in December 2013, aims to bring more women and diversity groups into the tech and business worlds. Their platform …
