IndieGoGo

When You Try to Raise $30K and Instead Get $1.8M (And Counting)

Liz Gannes in News on February 25 at 4:30 am PT

The creators of 3Doodler say they were totally unprepared for its success — but that doesn’t mean they’re not able to fulfill the demand.

Liz Gannes in Mobile on January 26 at 6:00 am PT

A mobile broadband rental company called RovAir is trying to apply the “sharing economy” to its business.

News Byte

Liz Gannes in News on January 8 at 2:07 pm PT

We’ve written before about unreliable estimates for the size of the total crowdfunding market, but here’s one that’s a bit more concrete. Kickstarter, which is thought to be the largest player (some others, like Indiegogo, don’t release stats) said today that 2.24 million users provided $274 million in funding for 18,100 successful projects in 2012, with total funding up 238 percent from the year before. There were also a bunch of great Kickstarter parodies last year.

Liz Gannes in News on January 8 at 12:01 pm PT

It’s certainly the largest online crowdfunding campaign I’ve ever seen.

Liz Gannes in Commerce on December 6, 2012 at 4:00 am PT

Still waiting on that Kickstarter product you backed? Christie Street says it has a better solution.

Liz Gannes in Product News on December 5, 2012 at 10:33 am PT

It’s an expensive group of stocking stuffers, to be sure.

Liz Gannes in News on November 21, 2012 at 8:30 am PT

Crowdtilt says it is the first crowdfunding site to fully support charity fundraising.

Liz Gannes in Commerce on July 28, 2012 at 6:30 am PT

The global market for crowdfunding in 2011 was likely not anything close to a widely cited estimate of $1.5 billion.

Liz Gannes in News on June 21, 2012 at 11:41 am PT

Kickstarter projects are all beautiful and unique snowflakes, but the crowdfunding platform is impressive in aggregate.

Liz Gannes in News on June 6, 2012 at 4:31 am PT

Kickstarter may be the best-known brand in crowdfunding, but Indiegogo now has the biggest war chest.