The concept of offering a few bucks to help out a project might have started to help your friend’s new album, but new numbers show it’s growing rapidly--and turning into a legitimate form of investment.
This new library-in-a-shipping-container plans on using growing Internet access in Africa to create a new model for making available both electronic information and physical books.
With its two Kickstarter projects, Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera, the small developer focuses on roleplaying games of yore. Here, execs discuss the appeal of brain-candy RPGs and what to do with an extra $2 million in crowd-sourced cash.
Kickstarter doesn’t want to be a store or cater to gadgets. By doing both, a crowdfunding startup called Crowd Supply hopes to build a new product development path for small and big companies alike.