Kickstarter just announced the launch of a new Recommendations feature, which should help projects get in front of the right people (or at least some of them). As the company notes, there are thousands of campaigns at any given time,…
Kickstarter Launches ‘Projects We Love’ Badge
There are a ton of projects launched on Kickstarter all the time, and now, the crowdfunding platform has a new way to highlight stand-out projects. On Tuesday, Kickstarter announced the “Projects We Love” badge, which it considers a simple way…
Kickstarter Finally Comes to Android
It’s hard to believe, but Kickstarter hasn’t had an Android app until now. They launched an iOS app about three years ago, but despite having a much larger share of the smartphone market, Android has once again been an afterthought.…
Fat Guy Across America Hits $12K, Loses 70 LBS.
Fat Guy Across America, Eric Hites, has now raised $12,652 on GoFundMe.com/FatGuy2015. He’s also got his wife back who is now riding with him and he’s lost over 70 pounds and apparently is inspiring people around the world. Eric has…
Etsy Aims To Help Sellers Grow Their Businesses With Crowdfunding
Etsy announced that it is piloting a new crowdfunding platform called Fund on Etsy, which is aimed at helping sellers grow their businesses and create new products. Think of it as a Kickstarter for Etsy products. The company says Fund…
Pornhub Wants $3.4M to Make the First Porn in Space
How does sex work in zero gravity? Pornhub wants to find out, and it’s asking for the internet’s help. Monetary help, that is. The massive online porn empire has just launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for what is calls…
Rachael Farrokh: 40 Pound Anorexic Woman Makes Plea For Help On Crowdfunding Site
Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, indiegogo and GoFundMe have seen their share of people asking support for their latest movies, inventions or what not. But Rachael Farrokh’s crowdfunding page is asking for something more, it’s asking for help in saving her…
Should Entrepreneurs Seek Crowdfunding?
A lot of entrepreneurs in todays landscape must decide whether or not to go the crowdfunding route. If you ask multi-billionaire Richard Branson, you’re probably best off at least considering it. Branson has been an investor in popular crowdfunding platform…
Exploding Kittens Most Successful Games Kickstarter Ever
Exploding Kittens is an analog card game for 2-5 players. It is also incredibly highly aniticipated. Exploding Kittens closed down its crowd funding window last night, earning a historic total of $8.78 million from a record-breaking total of 219,382 backers.…
Anna Cardwell Launches GoFundMe Campaign, Deletes It
Anna Cardwell, of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo infamy, recently launched a vague $20,000 GoFundMe campaign, which she has since taken down. Cardwell’s GoFundMe page presently seems to be missing key information after her cancelling of it, but the page…
Kickstarter Adds Shipping Options
Kickstarter announced the addition of a new feature that includes more built-in options for managing shipping of rewards for contributors. As the company acknowledges, this has been kind of a pain in the past. “There are times when sorting out…
Reddit Launches ‘Redditmade’ Crowdfunding Beta
Reddit announced a new crowdfunding project called redditmade, which is now in open beta. The company says it hopes the endeavor will lead to stronger subreddit communities, and allow redditors to better collaborate and support one another. Reddit says, “redditmade…
Kickstarter Opens Up in Scandinavia, Ireland
Kickstarter has just opened up projects in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Ireland – so if you’re a creator in one of those countries you can launch your kickstarter right now. “People in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Ireland are some of…
Star Trek Town in Canada Crowdfunds Building Functional, Full-Size Enterprise
In the Canadian Badlands, in the province of Alberta, there is a little town called Vulcan. The folks in Vulcan take the responsibility inherent in their name seriously. Every year, they host a mid-summer Star Trek celebration and festival called…
Indiegogo’s iOS App Goes Global, Android App on the Way
Crowdfunding company Indiegogo has just joined the ranks of those with a native iOS app, launching the new version Thursday morning. The app was first launched about a month ago in Canada only – but with today’s worldwide launch, we…
Elon Musk Gives $1M to Nikola Tesla Museum
In 2012, popular internet comic Matthew Inman, better known as The Oatmeal, published his most-viral comic to date – an ode to Nikola Tesla, who he called “the greatest geek who ever lived.” In it, he argued that the only…
Kickstarter Tosses Rules, Human Review for Some New Projects
Here’s the thing about some people–they’re shits. Here’s the thing about the internet–some of those people use it. Here’s the the about Kickstarter (or any other crowdfunding site for that matter)–it’s the internet asking you for money. Kickstarter, although it’s…
Video Explains Why John McAfee Is ‘The Real Most Interesting Man In The World’
John McAfee has a new video out. It’s a parody of the Dos Equis “The Most Interesting Man in the World” campaign in which McAfee is “The REAL Most Interesting Man in the World”. It’s an ad for crowdfunding company…
Heavy Duty 3D Printer Takes To Kickstarter
Crowdfunding is arguably the best thing to happen to 3D printing in years. Instead of just having a number of big manufacturers making all the 3D printers, we now have an explosion of open source and inexpensive printers hitting the…