IndieGoGo Launches Crowdfunding Storefront
Crowdfunding has become the go-to solution for countless startups, providing a channel for effortless marketing, campaign hosting, and engagement with prospective customers and supporters. But once the campaign ends, many crowdfunders are stumped by the question, “What now?” As usual, IndieGoGo has a solution. The San Francisco-based company released a new program called InDemand, which is essentially a storefront for...
Equity Investing Simplified
Though investors must be accredited in order to partake in equity and debt crowdfunding offerings, the beauty of crowdfunding is that they don't necessarily have to have any experience in investing. This inevitably leads to many new investors using equity crowdfunding as a means to diversify their portfolios and get into the crowdfunding/investing scene. So, for anybody who isn't an equity veteran, this article...
The A-B-Cs of Equity
We've heard the term "equity" constantly thrown around; but what is it, and how does it work in the crowdfunding sphere? Equity crowdfunding is both a specific offering and a generic term used to separate what I refer to as “gift” based crowdfunding from “market” based crowdfunding. The gift based offerings include donations and rewards crowdfunding. Market based crowdfunding consists...
SpinPadGrip: Revolutionizing Tablet Technology
It’s a detachable tablet computer handle! Or is it a tablet PC stand? No wait, it’s the versatile & innovative all-in-one SpinPadGrip tablet computer accessory! After years of R&D and product testing the team that designed SpinPadGrip is ready to bring their award winning product to market at a more affordable price for everyone and they need your help to...
Funded Today: Get Rewards For Contributing To Campaigns
A new service called Funded Today apparently gives Kickstarter backers cash-back rewards for their contributions. According to the Funded Today website, users just have to do is sign up and link their Kickstarter account to their Funded Today account. Once this is done, they receive 10 points for every $1 spent on qualifying Kickstarter projects. Every 100 points is worth...
IndieGoGo Life: The Free Personal Crowdfunding Platform
Heads up, GoFundMe. IndieGoGo’s new program, IndieGoGo Life, might just bump you off the top. Raising money for personal causes is often difficult and expensive, and few people have the time or energy to divert away from their cause towards a campaign. IndieGoGo Life, a standalone service branching off from IndieGoGo, hopes to change that with a simple, relatively painless, 8-click...
Why the Passion Planner Got 6,584% of Its Funding Goal
The Passion Planner competes with countless other multi-purpose planners on the market, many of which are stylish and well-known. Its Kickstarter campaign ran for only 30 days. A PDF version of the Passion Planner was offered for free online. And yet it raised 6,584% of its $10,000 funding goal, raising a whopping $658,434. What was the key behind its...
7 Secrets from One of the Most Successful Campaigns Ever
A decade ago, Ryan Grepper decided he wanted to be able to make frozen mixed drinks while picnicking with his friends and family. So, he attached a blender to a weed whacking engine and the rest is history. So how did Ryan create one the most successful campaign ever, pulling in over $10,000,000 for his idea? Read on to...
First Time Crowdfunding? Here’s What You Need to Know.
In the book, Write Your Business Plan, the staff of Entrepreneur Media offer an in-depth understanding of what’s essential to any business plan, what’s appropriate for your venture and what it takes to ensure success. In this edited excerpt, the authors discuss what your business plan should look like if you're crowdfunding for your business. A rather recent entry into...
Crowdtilt: Cut the BS Out of Crowdfunding
No fancy videos, no reward tiers, no long-winded copy: “Sell Something” campaigns are all about one simple product and a single preorder price. Crowdtilt’s latest product is a stripped down, no-bulls*** version of crowdfunding. The crowdfunding startup today launched Sell Something, which enables folks to presell just about anything online: clothing, books, tickets, or anything else (that’s legal, of course). “This is...
