Yancey Strickler Says Kickstarter Is Now Raising More Than $2 M. Each Week
That would mean that Kickstarter is seeing more than $104 million in pledges each year, and of course as we reported earlier, funding to the platform is accelerating. The company makes money by taking...
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Kickstarter Sells Out The Masonic Temple For Epic Dance Party
Image via Harrlee on Instagram The crowds of young hipsters were packed in to the rafters at the Mason Temple in Fort Greene last night. They had come for a screening of Girl Walk // All Day, an epic...
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Kickstarter To Make Its Network Television Debut [VIDEO]
The boys from Kickstarter are going to appear on Rock Center with Brian Williams on Monday. Check out a preview clip of them explaining Kickstarter to the norms.
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Kickstarter Announces Live Stats Page So You Can Watch the Numbers Tick
Kickstarter, New York's premier crowdfunding platform, updates the public from time to time with blog posts full of delicious statistics about the number of projects funded, number of dollars raised,...
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The Kickback Machine Surfaces the Failed Projects Kickstarter Doesn’t Want...
(Photo: The Kickback Machine) A healthy chunk of criticism has been lobbed at crowdfunding platform Kickstarter for using a search algorithm which "hides" failed projects. If you want to learn from...
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Citizens of the Internet Gather IRL for a Picnic in Prospect Park
Ms. He's sign On a mild, sun-dappled Sunday, Betabeat applied our sunscreen and ventured to the Long Meadow in Prospect Park for an event aptly named "The Internet Picnic." A few weeks ago, a friend of...
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Backers Better Beware: Kickstarter Says No Refunds, No Way
Basically. (Photo: flickr.com/benhusmann) A series of stumbles--dead jellyfish, burned sandals, iffy iPod docks--has Kickstarter backers wondering whether there's any recourse when they bet on projects...
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The Rise and Fall of New York Founders on Vanity Fair’s ‘New Establishment’ List
(Photo: Vanity Fair) Annie Leibovitz's Silicon Alley photo shoot has finally made its way into print, as part of Vanity Fair’s annual "New Establishment" list. As we'd hoped, the magazine opted to pose...
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Kickstarter Owns Up to Being ‘Mockable,’ Still Doesn’t Care About Deadlines
twitter.com/ystrickler Still waiting around for some sort of weird tchotchke you backed months ago on Kickstarter? Well, at least you've got company. In a big, expansive package released today, CNN...
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Rumor Roundup: Bedhopping at Sundance, Kissing and Telling in the Carribbean
Naptime! Sundancing in the Dark South by Southwest is basically right around the corner, but it seems several techies needed a break before March offers the excuse for a tax-deductible trip to Austin....
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