It’s only a small-scale project, but it’s exciting to see new funding models being tried out for drug development. Here on Techdirt we’ve been pretty scathing about the way... Read more
Crowdlaunch.it takes crowdfunding to a new level, allowing authors and creators to mass market their finished products. Unlike crowdfunding, which raises funds during the early stages of a c... Read more
In the first couple days of its crowdfunding campaign, the Owlet baby monitor raises more than a third of its goal of $100,000. The monitor measures heart rate, oxygen levels, skin temp, sle... Read more
This has opened up an incredible opportunity for social entrepreneurs to raise the funds they need to launch companies which create a better future for their communities. While the world’s m... Read more
“I went on a shopping spree in July and spent four million dollars on girls and women,” Maz Kessler says proudly. As the founder and creative director of Catapult, a start-up nonprofit organ... Read more
ARKYD is an orbiting space telescope that can be controlled by the public – its primary aim is to make space exploration accessible to anyone who is interested. Technology that would normall... Read more
Crowdfunding academic research might be changing, from a near-stunt to an widely used method of filling gaps in a research group’s money supply. At least, that’s the impression t... Read more
The concept of offering a few bucks to help out a project might have started to help your friend’s new album, but new numbers show it’s growing rapidly–and turning into a legitimate fo... Read more
A new crowdfunding platform akin to Kickstarter or Indiegogo will launch this week with a focus on social innovation and offering a membership at an entrepreneurial hub. Toronto’s Centre for... Read more
There is no reason that a Kickstarter project cannot also woo more traditional investors. As crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter continue to be a rising trend in content production, t... Read more
I was searching the web for ideas, as usual, and as I am searching the web for crowd funding information, I stumbled on GoFundMe. At first I thought it would be just yet another crowd fundin... Read more
This new model comes with a host of potential pitfalls An effort to build a sleek aluminum charging dock for the iPhone generated fervor online when it was announced last December. The proje... Read more
It’s one thing to buy a fun new gadget or accessory, another to think up an idea for one, and a whole other thing to bring it to market. Even as actual production is increasingly outso... Read more
Science in crisis Scientists – and science generally – are in a moment of crisis on multiple fronts. The gap between science and society has grown to a chasm, with disastrous conseque... Read more
This is especially interesting when you have an idea for a product. Crowd-funding platforms like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo have become a huge phenomenon in the tech & geek space i... Read more
