Sentences with phrase «kickstarter campaigns»

, the inevitable is upon us: dozens and dozens of Kickstarter campaigns thinking they can raise a crapload of money and flood people's inboxes and news feeds with donation requests.

Film and video is the largest category of all the Kickstarter campaigns.

Looking for some sweet Kickstarter campaigns for titles that are making their way to Nintendo Switch?

While Veronica Mars may have been the poster child for Kickstarter campaigns, its theatrical reception leaves plenty of doubt over whether Internet buzz translates to real - world revenue.

Active in the eSports scene, Tanner covers Twitch as well as kickstarter campaigns and Fan boy conventions.

This seemed odd as they had the record for one of the largest European Kickstarter campaigns -LSB-...]

The Kickstarter Fulfillment Report that was released in December 2015 discovered that 9 % of Kickstarter campaigns fail to deliver.

Previously, pre-orders have gone through the company's Kickstarter campaigns.

Kickstarter campaigns typically run about 30 days, for example.

As with all Kickstarter campaigns, the Mars movie gives supporters a certain selection of goodies depending on how much money they pledge.

Where branding pluck like this was once confined to incubators and Kickstarter campaigns, success stories like Canada's Frank & Oak, Australia's Bellroy and American brands like Warby Parker, Harry's and even Tesla are now giving their mainstream competitors some heartburn.

Just ask Dan Provost, 28, co-founder of Studio Neat, a Brooklyn, N.Y. - based product - design studio that recently launched two successful Kickstarter campaigns — raising more than $ 250,000.

(And, presumably, fewer Kickstarter campaigns of the making - potato - salad ilk.)

After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015 based around the ADED Pant, Public Rec is now a full - fledged apparel brand ready to bring its product to a much wider audience.

Nearly a third of those sales came through a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 that raised more than $ 635,000, but Kraft didn't turn to crowdfunding for the money.

Once the money from the Kickstarter campaign landed in the company's bank account, the team was able to finally order fabric, getting the production process officially moving forward.

Since the Kickstarter campaign ended, Sanghavi and Shah re-opened their campaign on rival crowdfunding platform Indiegogo as part of a program the San Francisco - based platform calls «InDemand.»

Entrepreneur.com tracked down Grepper to get his best advice on running a blockbuster, come - from - behind Kickstarter campaign.

That's right — in its first Kickstarter campaign, launched last November, The Coolest failed to make its $ 125,000 goal.

Roberto Torres, co-owner of the Black and Denim Apparel Company, discusses their successfully funded Kickstarter Campaign, how they found out about, and were awarded, several business grants, were featured in Entrepreneur magazine, and got their products in the Oscar, Grammy, and BET awards swag bags.

He launched the Kickstarter campaign as a part of his MBA Summer Internship program at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management following his first year of classwork.

One of the most popular Kickstarter launches of the last several years was the Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow in the dark.

A brief look through the thousand - plus comments on the Kickstarter campaign shows that some backers are satisfied with what they're getting.

After about three months of research and two months of prototyping, the husband - wife team shot a video about the product and launched their Kickstarter campaign on July 7.

Hiral Sanghavi and his wife Yoganshi Shah launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to fund the production of the all - in - one travel jacket they invented together.

The road from Kickstarter campaign launch to ordering the first 80,000 jackets has been nothing short of a sprint for Sanghavi and his team.

Boulder, Colo. - based Ubooly has raised $ 2.5 million in venture capital money and just recently blown its second Kickstarter campaign out of the water.

A Kickstarter campaign followed soon after, which netted 225 percent of the initial funding goal and allowed for an increase in production.

With some help from a 2014 Kickstarter campaign, she launched her business, Ideal Grain Free Granola.

How many would - be smart - watch entrepreneurs are saying to themselves, «oh, well, maybe I won't go ahead with that Kickstarter campaign after all»?

In March of last year, after another successful Kickstarter campaign for a touchscreen stylus called the Cosmonaut, they quit their fulltime - design jobs to focus on running Studio Neat.

These designers could just as easily run a Kickstarter campaign, but Before the Label's business model rewards backers with the actual product once a campaign successfully closes, as opposed to the customary thank you card or small gift from Kickstarter, for example.

As mentioned above, the giveaway tactic helped us secure 54 percent of our pre-launch list — and helped make our Kickstarter campaign successful.

Founded in 2009 by three MIT students frustrated by the prototyping options they found outside their space in the MIT Media Lab, the company raised $ 2.94 million last October in a Kickstarter campaign for its first product, the Form 1 Printer.

Similarly, when Slava Menn, 32, launched a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year to fund the production of a theft - resistant bike light, his backers also helped him improve the product.

If you look at Hettinger's Kickstarter campaign for her «classic spinner,» you'll notice that the prototype looks more like a hatted Frisbee than the toys tormenting teachers in U.S. classrooms.

Nine months later, I launched a Kickstarter campaign and raised more than $ 250,000 — and I was finally able to give myself my first paycheck as GoldieBlox's CEO.»

It took less than a year for Sterling's company to go from a Kickstarter campaign to the shelves of Toys R Us.

Black & Denim was a winner of the MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition Series, Macy's gave them a week in its minority business development program called The Workshop at Macy's, and they recently raised more than $ 35,000 in their Kickstarter campaign.

Bret Gould and serial inventor Christopher Hawker — the entrepreneur whose company, Trident Design, was behind the industrial design of The Coolest cooler, which went on to become the most - funded Kickstarter campaign — has made that dream an awesomely fun reality.

Its first Kickstarter campaign raised half that last year.

Its 2012 Kickstarter campaign raised almost $ 3 million for the development of the Form 1.

With more than a week left in its Kickstarter campaign, Sole Socks has raised almost $ 40,000.

And according to an analysis of 47,188 randomly selected backers of successfully funded projects 9 percent of the time a Kickstarter campaign has reached its funding goal, the project creators did not deliver the reward that was promised.

Sunscreenr launched a Kickstarter campaign in the summer of 2016 and got $ 119,629 after setting a goal of $ 45,000.

Last fall, small startup Arx Pax nearly broke the internet with a Kickstarter campaign that many thought was too good to be true — it was building a real - life hoverboard, straight out of Back to the Future.

In August 2012, 19 - year - old Palmer Luckey launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset for 3D video games.

Great Indiegogo and Kickstarter campaign successes tend, like most best - selling products, to fix a problem that a lot of people have.

In June of 2012, I launched my first Kickstarter campaign for a previous startup I was involved in — iPad - case company Origami Slate.

Even Gori didn't rely on his Kickstarter campaign alone to succeed.