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Someone Is Trying to Crowdfund a Greek Bailout, and Donations Are Surging
A new campaign has been set up on Indiegogo, an online funding website with a mission of "empowering everyone to change the world." With a goal of raising 1.6 billion euros, the "Greek Bailout Fund" aims to do what the Hellenic Republic's creditors apparently cannot. And, unlike Greece's actual bailout package there are no (austerity) strings attached. Only 1,599,917,718 euros to go.
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Walk to fight PKD (Polycystic kidney disease)
We need you to walk in 2015 – unite to fight PKD Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is one of the most common, life-threatening genetic diseases. It affects thousands in America and millions worldwide, who are in urgent need of treatments and a cure. The Walk for PKD is the Foundation’s largest annual fundraising and awareness …
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New York art dream comes true for Sydney teen with Down syndrome
A Sydney teenager who was not invited to her high school formal because of her Down syndrome is on her way to a New York City art exhibition featuring her paintings after a large donation from an anonymous Australian expat in Singapore.
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Most-funded European Kickstarter project ever still hasn’t shipped yet
The Zano is a drone that was funded through Kickstarter, and was projected to be shipped in june. We are now way past that date, and no one has seen the drone fly yet.
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Crowdfunding Is Driving A $196 Million Board Game Renaissance
The trend in the number of successfully funded games coming out of Kickstarter is dramatic and shows little sign of slowing.
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Crowdfunding Site Fig Wants To Give You a Bigger Stake In Their Games
Fig will have advisers to help indie games come to market. And you can get not only backing rewards, but investment royalties.
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Help crowdfund the world's first steam ring generator
Professional envelope-pusher Bjarke Ingels launches a Kickstarter campaign. Will other top architects follow suit?
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Zano drones struggle to achieve lift-off
They raised more than £2.3m on Kickstarter but have struggled to meet expectations. This week, the first batch of Zano drones should finally be shipped.
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An Equity Crowdfunding Campaign Just Launched to Create a Private Jet-Slash-Helicopter Hybrid
The TriFan 600 boasts three deducted fans that are slanted horizontally for liftoff and then can flip forward within seconds to generate thrust.
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PKD Awareness Day
PKD affects thousands in the United States and millions worldwide (including many members of my own family pictured here) – and yet, many people have never heard of it.
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Kickstarter Launches Drive To Raise Funds Supporting Refugees
If you have an idea for a film or an invention but you don't have the money to do, Kickstarter may be an option. But if you're trying to handle the most complex humanitarian crisis since World War II, well, the White House thinks Kickstarter could help there too. This week, the crowdfunding site broke its own rules after being approached by the White House. It launched its first-ever charitable drive to help with the refugee crisis.
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Effort to crowdfund a moon rocket lags as time runs short
An effort to crowdfund a moon rocket has until Sunday to raise most of the $1 million its founders say they need to kick the project off. The Moonspike initiative seeks to build a 22-ton, liquid-fueled rocket to launch a small spacecraft to the moon’s surface. As of Friday afternoon, the group had raised about $116,000. The venture’s co-founders are Kristian von Bengtson, who made his name as the lead spacecraft designer and flight director for...
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Star Trek: Renegades, a Tesla coloring book, and 8 more geeky crowdfunding projects that will make you open your wallet
Earn bragging rights by backing these projects before they become reality.
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Kickstarter hires investigative journalist to look into Zano's failed drone project
The Zano nano drone was one of the top 20 most-funded Kickstarter campaigns in history, pulling in over $3.5 million in pledges from more than 12,000 backers. If you read the Kickstarter story I wrote late last month, you already know that Zano is one of two high-profile campaigns that have fallen on hard times. In the case of Zano, the project has folded completely after shipping just 600 of the 15,000 nano drones promised to backers.
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With $100M In Crowdfunding, 'Star Citizen' May Not Be A Scam, But It Feels Like A Cult
Star Citizen, the upcoming space sim from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, has hit a milestone that seems almost too ridiculous to be believed. It just passed $100M in funding. Not just funding, but crowdfunding, as supporters of the game have taken the budget into the stratosphere not just through traditional support through avenues like Kickstarter, but by pre-purchasing ships and founders packages which range from a few dollars to seemingly ludicrous $15,000 bundles. But they’re selling.
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Introducing... Inbetwienerschnitzel
Hi, Kickstarter.
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How my Kickstarter blew up my life
In October 2014, I raised nearly $150,000 on my first crowdfunding campaign. Three months later, when I was in my final year of college and 21 years old, I wished I’d never heard of Kickstarter. I’d committed the cardinal sin of crowdfunding by shipping a shit product to over 2,500 people who’d backed my campaign. It’s now March 2016, and my backers are back to being huge supporters. I’ve built a thriving business and somehow...
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Crowdfunded Game Console Is Made Out of Tape, Cardboard, and Fake Circuits
We’re only three months into 2016, but it’s been a pretty bad year so far for people’s lofty ideas about launching new game consoles. First there was the Dreamcast 2 hullaballoo, which turned out to be a lot of hot air. Now we’ve got the Coleco Chameleon—an ironic name, given that the console’s creators are accused of having something to hide. But let’s go back a bit, to September of last year. Mike Kennedy, proprietor...
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Why people are crowdfunding their funerals
With the costs soaring and government aid falling short, people are turning to crowdfunding to bury their loved ones. By Joe Smith.
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Kickstarter’s Biggest Shitshow Somehow Got Even Messier
A decidedly not chill development for 36,000 Kickstarter backers of the “Coolest Cooler”: Coolest is now considering asking people who haven’t yet received their coolers to pay an additional $97 for “expedited delivery” of the long-past-due all-in-one disaster, a prospect that has allegedly led some backers to threaten Coolest employees. If you’re not familiar, at the time it launched, the Coolest Cooler was the most popular Kickstarter of all time...
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