Archive for the 'kickstarter' Tag
Going Back In Time: Turning The Modern iPad Into An 80′s Toy
Mail Online: Now the Etch-a-Sketch, that beloved toy which started life in the 1960s and amused children for the next three decades, is coming back – thanks to the help of the iPad. Inventor Ari Krupnik has created an almost exact replica sleeve of the Etch-a-Sketch, including those two big twiddly buttons with which you [...]
Funny: Kickstarter Campaign to Create Kickstarter Campaign
Time was, anyone with a webcam and an idea could raise boatloads of cash on Kickstarter. But with increased popularity comes tougher competition. Now, to get support, you need a really standout video or compelling write-up. I have an idea for a Kickstarter campaign that could raise millions, but I need your help to craft [...]
Smart Watch Breaks Crowdfunding Record
BBC: Canadian entrepreneur to work alongside smartphones has raised more than $3m (£1.8m; 2.2m euros) in less than a week on net funding site Kickstarter. It is a record for the site which crowd-sources cash to fund start-ups. Eric Migicovsky initially sought $10,000 over a five-week period but the total, six days in, now stands [...]
Recoil Winders: A Kickstarter Success Story
David Alden is a Kickstarter success. He used to the website Kickstarter to fund his business and to take it from just an idea to tens of thousands of unit sales. Recoil, a plastic device similar to a fishing reel for wires, provides an easy solution to tidy up offices, entertainment centers or the ear [...]
The Kickstarter Effect: My Alibi
The website has been used to market a wide variety of products. Now we can add female cyclist fashions to that list with the addition of My Alibi, reports The Des Moines Register. But raising the money in what she called the “high-capital game” of apparel has not been easy. Durkee said it would cost [...]
New Spin On Aging Art: Ink Dial
Decantur Daily: The Ink Dial addresses what Chouinard said is a common frustration in printing. Jars of colored ink can be expensive, averaging around $75, he said, and owning all the available colors can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead, most printers mix colors according to a sort of universal “recipe book.” The Ink [...]
Another Kickstarter Success: Elevation Dock
OregonLive.com: Casey Hopkins didn’t have the cash to launch his sleek aluminum iPhone dock, but his friend had a nice camera. They made a video, then uploaded it to Kickstarter.com. A month later, he’s raised more than $537,000 through the crowd funding site, and his project is gaining thousands of dollars a day. “I wasn’t [...]
Crazy Ideas That Kickstarter Has Funded
NY Times: So what kind of “creative projects” does Kickstarter enable? Well, a couple of artists raised $2,181 to send funny handwritten letters to every household in Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill neighborhood; someone pulled in $8,441 to help finance the creation of “a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of over 40,000 hip-hop songs”; a [...]
