Kickstarter

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Using Crowdfunding To Start A Company With A Cause

Melinda F. Emerson | New York Times | October 23, 2012

Two sisters, Kara Gorski and Kristin Gembala, have developed a bra designed to help breast cancer survivors who have had mastectomies and reconstructive surgery. So far, the sisters, who invested $25,000 from their savings, have designed and patented two styles and built a Web site. Currently, they are trying to raise money to begin manufacturing through a new crowdfunding platform. Read More »

Why Crowdfunding Is Set To Explode In Size Over The Next Few Years

Mark DeCambre | Nextgov.com | April 24, 2014

The type of social-driven lending that helped fund flashy startups such as virtual reality goggles maker Oculus VR could more than double over the next few years, according to research from the Tabb Group. Oculus was scooped up by Facebook for a cool $2 billion less than a month ago after receiving its original funding through the crowd-funding company Kickstarter.

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With Kickstarter Funding, FOIA Machine Wants To Help Fix Public Records

Miranda Neubauer | TechPresident | July 19, 2013

FOIA Machine, a platform that aims to streamline the process of tracking of filing and tracking public record requests, has raised more than $29,000 on Kickstarter — exceeding its funding goal by more than $10,000. Read More »

‘The Internet’s Own Boy’: Brian Knappenberger Chronicles Tragedy Of Web Activist Aaron Swartz

Daniel Eagan | Film Journal | June 20, 2014

When Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11, 2013, he was facing a possible 35-year prison sentence and a million-dollar fine. Federal prosecutors had targeted him for using an MIT computer network to download 4.7 million documents from the JSTOR database...

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