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How Seth Westphal Allegedly Attempted To Scam Kickstarter
Seth Westphal allegedly attempted to scam Kickstarter. He launched a campaign called MYTHIC: The Story of Gods and Men, but he was ousted by users at Reddit, SomethingAwful, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun. The creators of this project claimed to be an indie studio called “Little Monster Productions.” They claimed to have done work on the World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, and Starcraft.
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Categories Alfonzo Burton, Kickstarter, Seth Westphal
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Pebble Watch Passes $7 Million On Kickstarter With 18 Days To Go
Eric Migicovsky, one of the engineers behind the Pebble Watch, had a desire to build a line of wristwatches that would display information from an iPhone like a caller ID and incoming text messages. He attempted to contact venture capitalists for his idea, but it was shot down so he turned to crowd-funding website Kickstarter.com instead. The Pebble watch project now has over $7 million in funding with 18 days left in the crowd-funding website . As a matter of fact, the Pebble watch hit their $100,000 goal in less than two hours after the project went up on Kickstarter.
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Categories Eric Migicovsky, Kickstarter, Pebble Technology
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Pebble Breaks A Kickstarter Record At $3.3 Million With A Month To Go
Pebble was looking to raise only $100,000 when putting their project on Kickstarter, but fans of the product wanted to make sure they had enough capital to go really mainstream. This is why Pebble has hit $3.3 million in funding with a month still left to go on Kickstarter. On Friday, they were at a bit over $1.8 million.
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Categories Kickstarter, Pebble Technology
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Pebble Watch Hits Over $1.8 Million On Kickstarter
The Pebble is a smart watch that talks to your iPhone and Android device using several open-source apps. They were initially looking for just $100,000 on Kickstarter, but they ended up raising over $1.8 million so far.
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Categories Kickstarter, Pebble Technology
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Kickstarter Believed To Be Providing Funding To The Arts Rather Than The NEA
Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler said that the company is on track for distributing over $150 million to the projects of its users in 2012, which is more than the entire fiscal year 2012 budget for the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA). The NEA’s budget was $146 million.
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Categories Kickstarter, Yancey Strickler
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WATCH: Full Girl Walk//All Day Music Video Is Released [6 VIDEOS]
In December 2010, Jacob Krupnick came up with the idea of making a feature-length dance music video and he approached Anne Marsen about it. In January 2011, they created a trailer and put together a campaign on Kickstarter. Between January and February, Jacob received a lot of attention for the cause and Anne Marsen went to India to explore and study Bollywood dance.
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Categories Anne Marsen, Daisuke Omiya, Girl Talk, Jacob Krupnick, John Doyle, Kickstarter
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Elevation Dock Raises Over $360,000 On Kickstarter [VIDEO]
Elevation Dock is a project that went live on Kickstarter. Undocking an iPhone on many other different docks can be rather difficult. Most docks do not work with iPhones with a case on them, but the Elevation Dock does support iPhones with a case. The Elevation Dock is made out of solid aluminum and it has a gorgeous surface. The product was just a concept with a prototype until it was posted on the fund-raising website that everybody loves called Kickstarter.
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Categories Elevation Dock, Elevation Lab, Kickstarter
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Kickstarter Has Successfully Funded 10,000 Projects
Kickstarter has reached their 10,000th funded project! In addition, TechCrunch reports that Kickstarter has funded as many projects in the last month as in the company’s entire first year, and there are more than 300 projects submitted each day. For a little over two years as a company, Kickstarter is performing beautifully. Their celebratory blog post announces a 44% success rate for Kickstarter projects, most of which are music or film & video.
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Mathai Leaves Yahoo to Build OpenPhoto, a Flickr Rival
Jaisen Mathai used to work as an engineer at Yahoo, and has left the company to start his own photo service. The service is called OpenPhoto, and Mathai has been securing funding through Kickstarter because, as TechCrunch notes, photo apps have not been popular with venture funding lately. Mathai believes that users should be in control of their photos and that any uploaded photos are the property of that person and not of the company. As a result, OpenPhoto lets users choose what service they use as a cloud data storage provider.
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Categories Github, Jaisen Mathai, Kickstarter, OpenPhoto, Yahoo!
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Kickstarter Raises $10 Million From Union Square, Betaworks, and Angel Investors
Kickstarter is a New York based startup company that helps projects raises money. Kickstarter has raised $10 million in funding from Union Square Ventures, Betaworks, and several angel investors. Kickstart takes a commission from each funded project. One of the most noteworthy projects that Kickstarter funded is a Robocop statue for the city of Detroit. [BusinessInsider]
Categories Betaworks, Kickstarter, Union Square Ventures
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