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Fast Company
November 2013
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Go Your Own Way After Kickstarter denied his Wi-Fi -- enabled dead bolt, Cameron Robertson created his own crowdfunding platform, Selfstarter. It took off and went on to help the popular lost-and-found app Tile raise $2.6 million.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 12, 2015
Christian Camerota |
Are Experts or Crowds Better at Funding the Arts? Who made better funding choices when it came to backing proposed theater projects? Was it the National Endowment for the Arts or Kickstarter? |
Fast Company
October 2015
Harry McCracken |
Indiegogo Is Getting Ready for Equity Crowdfunding Sites such as Kickstarter and its archrival, Indiegogo, have had a transformative effect on how startups bootstrap themselves. Why shouldn't the masses be allowed to invest in new companies and have a chance at realizing a profit? |
Inc.
July 2008
Ryan McCarthy |
The Get Ahead Guide: Perry Chen Thinks His Website Could Be as Big as YouTube His site, KickStartr.com, is an online community designed to help artists, musicians, athletes, inventors, and filmmakers raise small sums of money from a large number of patrons. But is the concept of a giant website a bit passe? |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Kickstarter CEO: "We Don't Ever Want To Sell Or Go Public" The crowdfunding platform has elected to become a "public benefit corporation" -- in other words, a company that is legally bound to prioritize its societal impact, and must be transparent about its progress year after year. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
April Rabkin |
Chen Guangbiao, China's Charity Champion Chen Guangbiao's model of giving is the philanthropic equivalent of nouveau-riche ostentation: He's fond of publicity stunts, cash giveaways, and media scrums. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
FTC Investigates Failed Kickstarter Board-Game Campaign The FTC is investigating a failed Kickstarter project based on the works of horror author H.P. Lovecraft -- and it's the first time ever the government is taking enforcement action against a project hosted on a crowdfunding program. |
Entrepreneur
July 2010
Gwen Moran |
The Opportunity in Opinion PowerReviews proves the value of filtered, aggregated customer feedback by closing a third round of funding. |
Fast Company
Steven Melendez |
For 3-D Modeling, Startups Say The Pen Is Mightier Than The Printer Creators of new 3-D pens have said for many applications they've gotten printers beat, using a similar technology to extrude plastic and let users actually draw three-dimensional models from the tabletop up. |
