Business Funding
The Craziest Things That Have Been Funded on Kickstarter in 2017
From an air pollution pen to a robot arm -- check out some of these successful out-there campaigns.
By Rose Leadem
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Building a Business
4 Essential Steps for a Successful Kickstarter Campaign
When you launch a crowdfunding campaign, everyone can see if you're successful or not. Make this your motivating factor.
Building a Business
5 Essentials for Your Crowdfunding Project to Succeed
Lots of good projects flop as crowdfunding projects, not because the idea was bad but because the funding campaign was poorly executed.
By Lesya Liu
Building a Business
Is Crowdfunding Right for You? Answer These 7 Questions to Find Out.
Less than a third of crowdfunding campaigns reach their financial goals. Will yours be one of them?
Tech
9 Awesome Travel Gadgets That Got Their Start on Kickstarter
The creators of these campaigns aim to make trips less of a hassle for everyone.
By Rose Leadem
Building a Business
The Top Funded Kickstarter Campaigns of 2016
From customized headphones to fidget cubes, here are the year's most successful campaigns.
By Rose Leadem
Building a Business
Who Needs Venture Capitalists When You Can Crowdfund?
There are now thousands of specialized crowdfunding sites and, cumulatively, they are likely to provide more funding this year than VCs will.
Business News
Amazon Partners With Startups to Sell Crowdfunded Products
The online retailer is partnering with more than 25 crowdfunding platforms such as Indiegogo and venture capital firms to offer 200 products on the platform.
By Reuters
Building a Business
Indiegogo Expanding Beyond Crowdfunding to Be a ‘Springboard’ for Entrepreneurs
The San Francisco-based fundraising platform is pushing into new territory under its new CEO, David Mandelbrot.
Building a Business
Meet the New Breed of Philanthropists Helping Social Entrepreneurs Succeed
A social business needs capital to grow. Find out which organizations are helping to kickstart the new type of entrepreneurial ventures.
By Jason Haber
Building a Business
Amazon’s Plan to Build a Kickstarter Knockoff Turned Into a Site That Helps Startups Sell Products
'What Amazon knows a lot about is going to retail, and we continued to hear that that's a big problem for startups,' Launchpad's senior marketing manager said.
By Eugene Kim
Tech
Your Boring Bike Helmet Is About to Get a Big Tech Upgrade
A new Kickstarter project hopes cyclists can say bye bye to blindspots.
By Jason Fell
Building a Business
This Recent Immigrant Entrepreneur Is Living the American Dream Thanks to Crowdfunding
Hiral Sanghavi and his wife raised more than $11 million to design and manufacture a jacket that aims to solve logistical pain points for road warriors.
Building a Business
These 4 Companies Help Crowdfunding Campaigns Succeed
One secret to successful crowdfunding is hire people who know how to run one.
By John Rampton
Thought Leaders
5 Must-Know Lessons About the Small Business World
Common sense strategies will grow your tribe, if you're consistent.
Building a Business
Coolest Cooler Asks Backers for More Money
After pricing the product too low, backers are being asked to pay another $97 for expedited shipping.
By Steve Dent
Business News
Hungry for ‘Donald Flakes’ and ‘Better Eat Your Bernies’?
A new Kickstarter asks Americans to vote with their spoons.
By Dan Bova
Building a Business
Crowdfunding Won’t Work Unless You Prove Your Product Can Ease a Pain Point
If you work to connect with users on an emotional level and solve one (or more) of their problems, crowdfunding is the way to go.
Building a Business
Analysis of 170,000 Kickstarter Campaigns Reveals 3 Fundamentals of a Crowdfunding Success
Professors from the University of Buffalo School of Management researched the anatomy of a crowdfunding campaign that reaches its fundraising goal.
Building a Business
Kickstarter Makes First Acquisition, Saves Independent Music Community Drip From Closing
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but it was a lifesaver for Drip, which just a few weeks back announced it had to shut its doors.
Building a Business
When Kickstarter Hit Its Tipping Point
Co-founder and CEO Yancey Strickler can pinpoint, to the day, exactly when things blew up for the company.
Building a Business
Kickstarter Wants to Be More Than a Crowdfunding Platform
'Our mission statement does not contain the word crowdfunding,' says Yancey Strickler, a co-founder and CEO of the company.
Building a Business
Get Your Burning Crowdfunding Questions Answered on Kickstarter’s Version of Reddit
Called Campus, the online forum gives crowdfunders a place to get support and feedback about how to launch and run a campaign.
Building a Business
$2 Billion Has Been Raised on GoFundMe
It took the personal crowdfunding site five years go get to the first billion-dollar mark and only nine months to hit that second billion.
Building a Business
How an Engineer’s Desire to Keep His Keys Organized Led to a Business
Here are the five steps Michel Tunney used to take his idea from a Kickstarter campaign to retail stores.
Building a Business
The First 100,000 Successful Kickstarter Campaigns, in 10 Numbers
The crowdfunding platform released a mountain of data to celebrate its latest milestone. We pulled out a handful of the most interesting bits.
Building a Business
This ‘Home Disaster Alert System’ Is Catching Fire on Kickstarter
The Dome Alert promises to detect flooding and freezing conditions along with carbon monoxide and fire threats.
By Laura Entis