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Tag: kickstarter
Sep 26
Boon and Bane of Crowdfunding
(Article taken from http://mypaper.sg/ on 19 Sep 2012) Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, IndieGogo and Quirky are letting designers connect with audiences who want to finance their dreams… But, for the creators of these projects, getting the money is sometimes the easy part. They then have to turn their dreams into reality, with crowd keeping an …
Aug 19
Crowdfunding using KickStarter
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/aug/18/website-can-become-inventors-windfall/ In April, three-person startup Pebble Technology sought to raise $100,000 to make 1,000 wristwatches that can be programmed with different clock faces. Donors on Kickstarter showered them with more than 100 times that amount: $10.3 million. Kickstarter is the largest of dozens of sites devoted to crowdfunding, in which donors contribute small sums of …