August 19, 2012 archive

Crowdfunding using KickStarter

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/aug/18/website-can-become-inventors-windfall/ In April, three-person startup Pebble Technology sought to raise $100,000 to make 1,000 wristwatches that can be programmed with different clock faces. Donors on Kickstarter showered them with more than 100 times that amount: $10.3 million. Kickstarter is the largest of dozens of sites devoted to crowdfunding, in which donors contribute small sums of …

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