Adventures of Claire NeverEnding by Catherine Brunelle. What is the goal?
To self-publish this amazing book with your support. With YOUR support, we’ve blown past our fundraising goal of $3,000 and I’m cannot be more grateful!!! Now for the underlying goal: Getting as many people to read The Adventures of Claire Never-Ending as possible. So if you haven’t already please order a *copy. Tesla Museum Campaign Ends, Sets Indiegogo Crowdfunding Record. Solar Water Disinfection. Description We are Laurence Gill and Joanne Mac Mahon from the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at Trinity College Dublin and we are currently researching an innovative water disinfection system, which uses sunlight to disinfect water.
The solar disinfection unit is a low-cost, low-maintenance system, which requires no energy to run, and uses one of the most abundant resources in the developing world, sunshine. The Civil Engineering Department implemented a successful pilot project in the remote village of Ndulyani, Kenya, in 2008, serving over 600 people. Crowdfunding Confidential: How a wristband for the iPod Nano raised $1M in 30 days. The following is an excerpt from Scott Steinberg’s new book, The Crowdfunding Bible.
Why Louis CK and Amanda Palmer are the future of content. Record broken: Culture Project "Looking Iran" is the largest German Crowd Funding Project. Mit über 50.000 Euro unterstützt die Crowd auf der Plattform Startnext das Kulturprojekt Das Kulturprojekt “Ein Blick Iran” zeigt, dass sich das Mitmach-Internet zunehmend als Finanzierungswerkzeug durchsetzt.
Dem Projektinitiator von “Ein Blick Iran” ist es gelungen, knapp 52.000 Euro von der Crowd und Sponsoren einzusammeln – damit ist es das größte Projekt, das über eine deutsche Crowdfunding-Plattform bisher finanziert wurde. Mit dieser Summe kann der Initiator Benedikt Fuhrmann jetzt die Idee realisieren, von der er schon lange träumt: Er möchte eine vierwöchige multimediale Ausstellung über das Land Iran und seine Menschen in der Münchner Kirche St. Maximilian realisieren, die am 15. Juli eröffnet wird und bis zum 12. Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android by Pebble Technology. Want your watch to tell you when your next bus is leaving?
Maybe you're jonesing to see your compile status or recent github commits.. Think push notifications, directly to your watch using the data connection on your phone. Want to check-in on your watch, or create an app that can monitor your sleep? Crowdfunding boosts legal fight vs Spain's Bankia. Amanda Palmer: The new RECORD, ART BOOK, and TOUR by Amanda Palmer » COUNTDOWN PARTY &....ALBUM TITLE and....A NEW SONG!!!!! Amanda Palmer: The new RECORD, ART BOOK, and TOUR by Amanda Palmer. The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive by Rich Burlew. Double Fine Day » The Kickstarter Blog. On February 7, a project called Double Fine Adventure launched, and along with it a record-setting 24 hours.
Artemis Visions « The Crowdfunding Rockstars. Jim, Adam, and Kent: Revolights My walkaway impression after my interview with the Revolights team was of pure warmth and authenticity.
This is a team that replied to every single email sent to them, over 4000 messages during their active Kickstarter campaign. Five Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns. With record labels tanking and internet piracy showing no signs of abating, many artists are looking to crowdfunding websites likes Kickstarter, PledgeMusic and IndieGoGo to help them raise money from fans in exchange for a variety of rewards.
Here are five memorable crowdfunding campaigns that reached their goal. Five Overfunded Social Good Projects on Kickstarter. L5: Hot New Crowdfunded Sci-Fi Series, Free-To-Share From VODO « VODO. Crowdsourcing At Its Best: San Francisco-Based Game Studio Raises $700,000 In 24 Hours. By Yaroslav Baronov Feb 13, 2012 A San Francisco start-up game studio is revolutionizing crowdsourcing .
As a concept, crowdsourcing is emerging as a means to achieving various ends, from funding to product ideas and product development. But Double Fine, a San Francisco based game studio, has set the record for crowd funding, raising a whopping US$700,000 in 24 hours. And backers are still coming, the fund still increasing! Creative fund raising Tim Schafer, the brains behind the move, used Kickstarter to spearhead the fund raising campaign, announcing the bid on twitter and Facebook.
Double Fine has suffered from a lack of skeptic publishers who have remained disinterested in investing in his games, mainly because the company isn’t as profitable as other mainstream game manufacturers. Code Hero: A Game That Teaches You To Make Games by Alex Peake. Code Hero's ultimate and most challenging feature to create is multiplayer.
For this to be achievable, this Kickstarter cannot rest till the countdown strikes zero! Spreading the word to new backers and telling your backer friends you're upping your pledge level if you want awesomer rewards are both good ways to encourage growth! READ MORE ABOUT ADDING MULTIPLAYER AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPREADING THE WORD TODAY When you pledge, you get immediate access to create your account and download the Code Hero game beta.
You can try it today and tell your friends to pledge to get their accounts and help fund the development of the full game. Double Fine Adventure shatters Kickstarter record with $1M raised in first 24 hours (updated) Updated at 4:30pm PST for record $1 million amount.
Earlier this week, crowd-funding site Kickstarter set a new record when the Elevation iPhone Dock became the first project to close in on the $1 million dollar mark. But that milestone has officially been bested. In its first 24 hours, gaming studio Double Fine Adventure’s Kickstarter project has raised more than $1 million and it shows no signs of slowing down. Double Fine’s Tim Schafer tweeted the above photo of the Double Fine team celebrating the $1 million mark.
Crowd funding takes off: smarchive collected in 60 hours 100 000 € a "netzwertig.com. Record hunting in seedmatch - "Smarchive" financing in just 12 hours. Smarchive receives funding by 144 investors within 3 days. Crowd funding takes off: smarchive collected in 60 hours 100 000 € a "netzwertig.com. HealthRally raises $400,000 to launch "crowdfunding" health site. Zack Lynch, HealthRally's CEO and co-founder. HealthRally, a San Francisco startup that wants to be the web version of TV's "The Biggest Loser," says it's raised $400,000 in seed money to help get things rolling. The nascent "social health" company is developing a "crowdfunding platform for personal health motivation," which basically means a site where someone's friends and family can make contributions designed to motivate that person to make healthy changes in lifestyle. You know the drill: losing weight, getting off the sofa, turning off the TV, getting more exercise, eating healthier.
The thinking is that folks will be more likely to take those healthy steps if friends and family are putting a little money on the table -- and watching to see if Junior, Wife or Hubby comes through on promises to do the right thing.