September 6, 2013
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One of the biggest headaches on crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo is vaporware: hardware projects that never materialize or arrive much later than their...
September 6, 2013
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What happens after the crowdfunding campaign — after Indiegogo or Kickstart, and after delivering the products that you promised? If you’re NEO3DO, the answer is...
September 6, 2013
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These shenanigans have happened in the past. Skullgirl Studio – Lab Zero – experienced a PayPal freeze out in April 2013. GlassUp experienced something similar just several...
September 6, 2013
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Late Wednesday evening, the founders behind Mailpile, a privacy-centric email client that's already raised north of $130,000 on Indiegogo, received a message no crowdfunder wants...
September 5, 2013
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Mosaic provides a unique crowdfunding platform that allows investors to lend money to support solar power projects and earn a return in the bargain. Once the...
September 5, 2013
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Allison Jo Mercer, a researcher at Georgia Tech, is developing an adhesive based on a brilliantly sticky fish. Her work could some day translate into Band-Aids...
September 5, 2013
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Going by numbers alone, hardware projects should be a win-win proposition for both entrepreneurs and crowdfunding platforms. Seven of the top ten most-funded projects on Indiegogo, a...
September 4, 2013
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Egyptian artists and innovators are increasingly using crowdfunding platforms to raise money for projects, by-passing limitations of traditional fundraising. Egyptian artists, innovators and social activists...
September 4, 2013
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Traditional scientific funding proposals typically do not ask donors to “crowdfund my meth lab, yo,” but then young scientist Ethan Perlstein isn’t taking the traditional route to...