CrowdfundingNews 9/24/12

Crowdfunding News 9/24/12

$1.3m crowd-funding offers to change a light bulb The Australian Financial Review In one week more than 8000 backers pledged just over $1.3 million on crowd-funding website Kickstarter to pre-order smartphone-controllable light bulbs. But despite having 51 days to go on their crowd-funding campaign, the Lifx Labs team behind the ... See all stories on this topic »

Startups look to SCOR investors through state-level crowdfunding Denver Post Crowdfunding, the buzzword for the past year in tech and investment circles, is expected to explode in 2013 when federal rules are adopted to allow companies to freely sell securities online. But even before then, two Colorado startups have partnered ... See all stories on this topic »

Why crowdfunding can be a terrible investment SmartPlanet.com (blog) ... will raise $2.8 billion. But as more people get in on this trend both on the project creation side and on the investing side, more problems are cropping up, demonstrating the pitfalls of crowdfunding both as a way to seek investment and as a way to ... See all stories on this topic »

UmeNow: CEO Pivots Company to Focus on Creatives, Unemployed College ... Crowdsourcing.org Summary It may come as a surprise that UmeNow is pivoting to support creatives, inviting into its ranks a demographic some would characterize as adept at oversharing. This unexpected pivot, by a company built on encrypted communication, was initiated ... See all stories on this topic »

Old farm turns to Internet crowd-funding for revival Morning Sentinel Rolls of hay dot a field that leads up to a well-weathered barn and an equipment shed with a sagging roof. When Justin Cobb was Lorenzo's age, the farm hummed with activity: dairy cows being milked twice a day, crops growing in the fields and produce ... See all stories on this topic » Morning Sentinel

Policing Amanda Palmer: How crowdfunding has changed expectations for artists A.V. Club In April 2012, Musician-artist Amanda Palmer launched a Kickstarter asking fans for $100,000 to manufacture and promote her new album, Theatre Is Evil. Close to 25,000 backers kicked in, pledging nearly $1.2 million and making her the first musician to ... See all stories on this topic » A.V. Club

Sportfunder – New Online Way To Raise Sport Project Funds Crowdsourcing.org Crowdfunding · Cloud Labor · Crowd Creativity · Distributed Knowledge · Open Innovation · Tools. Content. Article · Blog · Document · Video · Site Question. Category. All; Cloud Labor; Crowd Creativity; Crowdfunding; Distributed Knowledge; Open ... See all stories on this topic »

Crowdfunding begins for London indie game café MCV Crowdfunding begins for London indie game café. Loading has launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance a new London branch. The Cornwall-based indie gaming café started its campaign on IndieGoGo last week. The appeal has already raised more ... See all stories on this topic » MCV

Meet The ReadyCase: The Frankenstein Of iPhone Cases, Plus Extra Stabby Bits TechCrunch One new one debuting on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo today called the ReadyCase packs more features than I think any I've ever seen, all into a low-profile design that actually only adds 3mm of thickness, and will ship in both iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

How Indiegogo Turns Tragic Stories Like Lydia Tillman's Into Interactive ... Fast Company A standout crowdfunding campaign offers donors a chance to participate in justice for the victim of a violent, near-fatal attack. Karen the bullied bus monitor has nothing on Lydia Tillman's survival story (warning: graphic image below). And all she ... See all stories on this topic » Fast Company