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Tag Archives: pre-sales
Chinese Hi-Pee Does It All – Really?
This falls into the category of “I don’t think so.” If Theranos couldn’t do it, would you crowdfund a small Chinese built device that supposedly can “perform 14 kinds of health tests for protein, glucose, pH, occult blood, WBC count, … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, checkbook, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, discrepancies, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, review, technology, VC, Venture Capital
Tagged accurate, blood test, China, Chinese, crowdfunding, glucose, Hi-Pee, hospital, lab test, medical device, pre-sales, technology, urinanalysis, Xiaomi
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Look Back To 10 Biggest Crowdfunding Campaigns
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the 10 biggest crowdfunding campaigns in recent history, including: Pebble Watch (raised $20.3 million) – shut down; Flow Hive (raised $15 million) sold more than 51,000 bee hives so far and is … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, balance, checkbook, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, review, SEC, Uncategorized, VC, Venture Capital
Tagged campaign, Coolest Cooler, crowdfund, crowdfunding, donation, donor, Flow Hive, IndieGoGo, kickstarter, Kingdom Death, online sales, Pebble Watch, pre-sales, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Solo, Star Wars
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A Happy Crowdfunding Ending To A Disaster
Would you crowdfund a motorcycle helmet with an Augmented Reality display on the visor? Over 1,900 backers put up almost $2.5 million at $1,500 a pop, but only a handful of helmets were delivered and tech support vanished and the … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, checkbook, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, discrepancies, fraud, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, technology, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged A&R, augmented reality, bankruptcy, CES, donation, fraud, GasGas, heads up display, helmet, HUD, IndieGoGo, kickstarter, motorcycle, motorcycle helmet, pre-buy, pre-sales, Skully, smartphone
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Crowdfunder Gets Amazon Buyout
Another crowdfunder has hit it big, leaving its donors in the proverbial dust. Blink, one of the first wireless security cameras, raised $200,000 in a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign back in 2014, later to raise up to $1 million there pre-selling … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, balance, checkbook, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, Small Business, technology, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged Amazon, battery, Blink, bootstrap, buyout, camera, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfund, crowdfunding, donor, Facebook, IndieGoGo, internet, kickstarter, Oculus Rift, pre-sales, rewards, risk, SEC, security camera, technology, VR, wifi, Wired
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NYSE Company Crowdfunding New Product
Did you think that crowdfunding was just for startups? How about a 111 year old public company that has a market capitalization of $109 Billion? Honeywell (NYSE: HON) is using Indiegogo to sell a new home security product that will … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, checkbook, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, review, SEC, Small Business, technology, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged Amazon, crowdfund, crowdfunding, feedback, home monitoring system, home security, HON, Honeywell, internet, IoT, iPhone, marketing, Nest, New York Stock Exchange, NYSE, orders, pre-sales, smart home, technology, test, video, wifi
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Crowdfunding Is Really “Crowd Marketing”
Cheryl Clements, Chief Executive Officer of the web platform Pieshell, notes that crowdfunding is really a two way street and the best crowdfunders are also “crowd marketers.” This is due to the fact that the crowdfunding process allows an entrepreneur … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, balance, checkbook, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, Small Business, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged Cheryl Clements, crowd fund, crowd marketing, crowdfunding, debt, donations, entrepreneurs, equity, friends and family, IndieGoGo, kickstarter, marketing, pieshell, pre-funding, pre-sales, publicity, rewards, social media, social network, wantrepreneurs, web platform
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Crowdfunding Site for Writers
A new crowdfunding site helps authors do two things at once: pre-sell their novel and get noticed by publishers. Although some writers have made a lot of dough (Fifty Shades of Grey has earned over $500M in all of its … Continue reading
Posted in accredited investor, balance, checkbook, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, Small Business, technology
Tagged author, bestseller, book, copyright, creative, crowdfund, crowdfunding, Fifty Shades of Grey, film, kickstarter, Kindle, movie, New York, novel, pre-order, pre-sales, pre-sell, press, print, publisher, publishing, Publishizer, rights, self publishing, Tinder, writer
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