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Watsi Turns Two
On December 3, 2010, Chase was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica. A woman boarded a bus he was on and asked the passengers for donations to pay for her son’s healthcare. The experience inspired him to start Watsi, a crowdfunding platform for healthcare, and name it after the town he was traveling through at the time.
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Indiegogo Campaign Never Delivers Product; Founder Spotted with New Ferrari
Crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter can be a great place to make impossible dreams come true. Some campaigns are total pipe-dreams, sure, but at least they often have a few working test models and a real plan. Others are simply empty promises and total trash.
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Kickstarter lays down new rules for when a project fails
Kickstarter announced several updates late Friday to its terms of use and policies for crowdfunded projects, according to a blog post at the company's site. The terms of use are not changing much about the spirit of the platform, but the update provides more detailed guidelines for setting expectations, both between Kickstarter and users, and project creators and their backers.
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After Kickstarter to Make Potato Salad, Columbus Prepares for Potato Stock
The potato salad Kickstarter ended in early August, but it has been a busy time since then for Zach "Danger" Brown. ABC 6/FOX 28 broke the story on July 4th when Zach, a Columbus native, asked for $10 to make some potato salad. When ABC 6/FOX 28 interviewed him he had a few hundred dollars already donated, but the story took off like a hot potato.
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This bizarre bendable phone wears like a shirtsleeve
A California startup is crowdfunding a flexible phablet that you strap to your arm and it might not be totally ridiculous. Maybe.
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Kickstarter cancels Anonabox campaign amid controversy
Crowdfunding site Kickstarter has canceled a campaign for Anonabox amid controversy. Kickstarter will not be collecting money from its backers.
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Coolest Crowdfunded Projects of the Week
Each week, we’ll showcase the hottest new products from Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
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The Internet’s Going Crazy For a Mechanical Pencil That’ll ‘Last You a Lifetime’
Attention anyone who—like us—has a weird fascination with shiny new office supplies. A sleek, metal mechanical pencil that'll purportedly "last you a lifetime" has recently crushed its $4,000 Kickstarter goal. With 56 days still remaining in the campaign, the pencil has already raised over $19,000, and we expect that number will keep on climbing.
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Indiegogo Life lets you fund personal causes for free
Indiegogo launched a standalone service Monday that lets users raise money for anything from medical expenses and tuition payments to vacations and parties — without charging them a fee. The new service also claims to offer a more simple set-up process, and one-on-one support for users.
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Kickstarter for Exploding Kittens Asked for $10K Over a Month. It Got $2 Million in 24 Hours
In another crazy viral Kickstarter phenomenon, Mathew Inman, creator of the popular webcomic The Oatmeal, fully funded his Kickstarter for a game called Exploding Kittens in just 20 minutes on Tuesday. In less than an hour, it was 1,000 percent funded. And within just seven hours, it was 10,000 percent funded with over $1 million raised.
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12 Successful Kickstarters That Never Delivered
All is not right in the world of crowdfunding. For every massive critical success like Shovel Knight or Divinity: Original Sin, there are numerous games or game-related projects that disappoint, under-deliver, or, as has become scarily common, take people's money and never make what they promised in the first place.
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Crowd-Funded 'Lazer Team' May Sneak Up and Zap You
If you've heard of the summer action comedy 'Lazer Team,' it's probably because you donated to its record-breaking crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo. Watch the first trailer.
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Galactic Battles
Support the Galactic Battles project on IndieGoGo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/galactic-battles-open-movie-project
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Indiana pizzeria raises $500,000 after saying it wouldn't cater a gay wedding
A crowdfunding page in support of Memories Pizza, the Indiana pizzeria that drew criticism this week for saying it wouldn't cater gay weddings, has raised nearly $500,000 in 24 hours. A GoFundMe page was set up this week after the restaurant's Yelp page was flooded with negative reviews. On Tuesday, one of the pizzeria's co-owners told a local news affiliate that "if a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no."
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Chris Hansen is using Kickstarter to revive To Catch a Predator
Chris Hansen is heading to Kickstarter to create a new version of To Catch a Predator. The series, which involved Hansen confronting men who sought out underage sex partners, ended in 2007, but now Hansen is looking for $400,000 in funding to bring a new version of it online. According to the Los Angeles Times, the new show will be called Hansen vs. Predator and will debut online before later being sold to TV networks.
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Second crowdfunding campaign for SC police officer suspended [Updated]
IndieGoGo representatives have confirmed that the site has pulled a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a former South Carolina police officer's legal defense fund. The "Michael T. Slager Support Fund," which appeared at IndieGoGo after a similar campaign was pulled from the site GoFundMe, no longer exists, and its page was replaced on Friday by a generic 404 page with no explanation. In a statement to Ars Technica, IndieGoGo confirmed that the campaign "did not meet"...
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ZPM Espresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder
“Thank you all very much,” Update 57 concluded, by way of goodbye. “Working on this project was the most ambitious and meaningful undertaking any of us have ever attempted. Getting to know all of you, and working to create some seriously cool technology, was one of the most rewarding things we’ve ever done. We are deeply and truly sorry that despite our best efforts, we were not able to get this machine across the finish line. Love, Gleb, Igor and Janet, Team ZPM.”
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Got $600? You can choose an enlightening book or film to smuggle into North Korea
If you could secretly introduce any film, documentary, podcast, or book of poetry or prose to a North Korean audience, something that would resonate with them and perhaps open their world in some way, what would you choose? A Canadian activist group hoping to inch North Korea into the Information Age has just launched an Indiegogo campaign offering donors who pledge $600 or more the option to customize 20 USB memory sticks...
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Open-source “MMO for makers” aims to crowdsource manufacturing design
Industry-government partnership could jump-start digital manufacturing collaboration.
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Ultimate Night of the Living Dead
A new generation of creators tell stories set in the universe of the cult classic Night of the Living Dead.
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