Sentences with phrase «from backers»

«If you have a good story to tell, you'll get support from backers,» he says.

It recently got another $ 30 million in funding from its backers, and now has 250 employees in five offices.

But the money from the backers was gone, spent on engineers and contract manufacturers.

It was the community, the testing, and the feedback from our backers that made our last campaign so valuable to us.

It also means that, on the face of it, the project has less than the $ 145 million claimed to have come from backers.

You can create a project, solicit contributions from backers, and work towards your funding goals.

In the two weeks since it announced the details of its token sale, Current received the equivalent of approximately $ 150 million in interest from backers looking to participate in the private sale.

Current also states that it received the equivalent of approximately USD 150 million in interest from backers looking to participate in the private sale.

Today they lead a company whose platform has generated 1.3 B from backers in over 200 countries for over 800,000 campaigns.

The game recently hit the $ 18 million mark, and continues to rack up an impressive pledge amount from backers.

In his campaign for mayor, he touted their success and received funding from backers.

Together, the incidents, deadlines, and departures raise questions about Magic Leap's ability to timely deliver a much - hyped technology that has attracted billions of dollars from backers including Google and Alibaba.

«As you can imagine, our support team gets tons of support requests from backers of various products.»

And while you think this cast would be a no - brainer for anyone looking to finance the movie, the filmmaker reveals he actually had to fight to prevent Blunt's role from being rewritten for a man, following a request from the backers of the movie.

For sometime now, despite overwhelming evidence pointing to the fact that the Star Citizen project is FUBAR, not only are we still seeing and tracking various spikes in funding, as well as the sales (not illegal btw) of digital items from the game, but also CIG has recently started asking for ID from backers who want a refund.

Crowd - funding portals vet projects before posting them, and Mollick speculates that because communities tend to form around projects, the constant dialogue and scrutiny from backers discourages and weeds out fraud.

As it turned out, feedback from the backers for the original 6 - inch e-reader campaign resulted in a second campaign, this time for a 13.3 e-reader which many of the original backers really wanted.

The company, which is funded by $ 1 million in seed capital from backers including Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, wouldn't disclose its traffic or usage numbers.

Even after successfully claiming the pledges necessary, trust can be a huge factor with enquires from backers about their reward, consuming countless hours that could be spent on more productive tasks.

Crowdfunding is also a great way to gather comments and feedback from backers while you are in the process of developing your product.

Her campaign said in the last four days it has received 2,214 contributions from backers giving her $ 200 or less.

Arcade racer Formula Wincars has started its funding campaign on Kickstarter, hoping to raise $ 42,000 from backer pledges.

To fund the new project, Out of Print turned to Kickstarter which garnered an enthusiastic response from backers and bibliophiles.

I'm also slightly wary of some of the alpha - funding horror stories I've heard: seems like people get a sense of entitlement with that kind of funding that I'm keen to avoid — I spoke to one sobbing indie dev who said he was in «perpetual crunch» because being seen to take a single weekend off got him hatemail from his backers.»

The amazing enthusiasm from our backers was heartwarming, and the feedback we have been getting so far from the readers is more than positive!

Only time will tell if this mixture of visual novel story telling and old school dungeon crawling will be enough to raise Undead Darlings from the grave, and $ 50,000 from backers pockets, but as the game did manage to net over 10,000 in just three days.

The game was funded through Kickstarter, and the project gained massive media attention and over # 2 million which equates to almost $ 3 million USD from backers.

So, has CIG started requesting ID for refunds because they too suspect that some fishy business is going on, or is it a ploy to discourage refunds from all backers alike?

«There's no investment, necessarily, in terms of stakeholder share from the backers.

Glad you love the landscape and the ATB queue, Ben has worked really hard on those the past few weeks and we love the positive feed back from our backers.

After over 4 million dollars, several delays, and growing contempt from its backers, Keiji Inafune's Mighty No. 9 finally launched last week on most promised platforms.

The Guardian has rounded up apologies from backers of the effort, but hasn't apologized itself yet (unless I missed it).

Anderson continues by taking on the claims from backers of Keystone XL that it will improve US energy supply and make the nation more energy independent, finding all these claims lacking.

One memorable ICO, Tezos, generated $ 232 million (which it described as donations) for options on tokens on a network that has yet to exist — as well as four class - action lawsuits from its backers.

It raised $ 500,000 from backers via Kickstarter to fund the development of the game.

In every instance, Pebble took money from backers months in advance, promising a product and playing on people's trust to give them an advance.

For all the bipartisan appeal of having conservatives flock to his side, Mr. Cuomo also risks losing support from backers of traditional Democratic causes.

With an injection of more than $ 9 million in funding from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Chao and Wingeier are partnering with the U.S. military and professional athletes to build evidence that supports their claims.

Xirrus raised more than $ 120 million in venture funding from backers including Canaan Partners, InterWest Partners, and August Capital.

Until now, crowdfunding has come from backers who donate money with no expectation of a financial return, but that's about to change.

Crowdfunding sites have long been plagued by instances of designers and entrepreneurs collecting money from backers and then failing to deliver their product; more ominously, Indiegogo has hosted a series of campaigns that some believed were outright scams.

Despite not offering a physical version during the Kickstarter campaign, we heard the requests from our backers and worked hard to offer the best possible solution.

Before this investment round, Kraken had raised $ 6.5 million from backers such as Hummingbird Ventures, Blockchain Capital and Digital Currency Group.

The company has raised a total of $ 67.1 million from backers including Andreessen, Sean Parker, Chi - Hua Chien's Goodwater Capital, and Ron Conway's SV Angel.