Sarah Dvorak was desperate. The former retail executive had depleted her savings accounts, borrowed from family members, and secured a microloan from a local development group to launch Mission Cheese, a San Francisco café that would specialize in domestic products like Minnesota-made Camembert and a silky sheep's-milk cheese from Northern California. But three weeks before opening day last spring, she still didn't have refrigerated cases to store and display her fare. Despite having cobbled together $225,000 to start her business, she had come up $12,000 short. So she turned to Indiegogo, a San Francisco-based site that allowed her to appeal directly to the public for money. "Within one month, I had the funding I needed," Dvorak says. "I was in tears." (Read More)

Kickstarter is a tech scene phenomenon.But it's important to know what it really is. (Read More)

Since crowd-funding website and service Kickstarter launched in 2009, a staggering $108.52 million (£71.45 million) has been pledged to games projects, both video and tabletop. (Read More)

The stampede to fund a Veronica Mars movie is "sort of like a perfect storm," according to Kickstarter co-founder and head of communications Yancey Strickler. Kicking off the Engadget Expand event in San Francisco over the weekend, Strickler acknowledged that the Veronica Mars movie is the latest sensation to take Kickstarter by storm, following on the heels of crowd-funded projects like the Pebble smartwatch and the Ouya game console. (Read More)

The stampede to fund a Veronica Mars movie is "sort of like a perfect storm," according to Kickstarter co-founder and head of communications Yancey Strickler. (Read More)

The Top 5 crowd-funded projects on Kickstarter that have raked in over $1 million in donations. (Read More)

Kickstarter is successful and popular. You know that. I want to talk about what it has done to my brain, and may soon do to yours: Kickstarter is turning me into an investor. (Read More)

Kickstarter began three years ago as a platform to fund creative artistic projects, but devices like the Pebble watch have quickly turned the limelight toward hardware innovation and in turn, put the crowdfunding movement firmly on the map. Moreover, Kickstarter’s approximately 35,000 projects, with almost $400 million pledged doesn’t even begin to make up the majority of the crowdfunding industry, which raised $2.8 billion in 2012 alone. Even the U.S. (Read More)

Three weeks early and $359,630 short, Bjork's Kickstarter project to make an Android version of the Icelandic superstar's iOS-only educational Biophilia app has been canceled because few people wanted to give charity to a rich person. (Read More)

After announcing that it had begun mass production of its smartwatch and a shipment date earlier in the month, Pebble Technology — makers of the Pebble e-paper watch that broke Kickstarter records during its funding stage — has today notified some early backers that orders have begun making their way to them. (Read More)

The Pebble smartwatch that excited Kickstarter users and impressed more than a few CES attendees earlier this month has started shipping. Pebble announced the news on its Kickstarter page today, saying that the first batch of its units -- a little under 500 -- are being sent out to its earliest backers. The company said that it had hoped to ship more watches today, but shipments were held up "by documentation at the airport." (Read More)

The Pebble smartwatch will officially begun shipping today, at long last. After a record-shattering Kickstarter campaign, the tidal wave of demand for the device led to delays and production woes. Now, after announcing a hard shipping date at CES 2013 earlier this month, Pebble intends to deliver its little wonder timepiece. (Read More)

How many of you bought into the Pebble Watch Kickstarter last year? At four months late, it isn't as late as some Kickstarters that I've "invested" in, but it is one of the more expensive. Fortunately, we finally know when it'll be shipping! (Read More)

Remember the Kickstarter project Pebble that took the Internet by storm? CES 2013 was the stage for the creators to announce that after a string of serious delays, the e-paper watch will finally start shipping this month. (Read More)

The crowdfunding site Kickstarter doesn't seem to be slowing down in 2013, and plenty of new projects hit the site every day. So, we want to know, do you back Kickstarter projects? (Read More)

Kickstarter reports that its 2.2 million members pledged more than $319 million in 2012, up 221 percent from the year before. But more striking, perhaps, is the scale of some of Kickstarter’s latest success stories. While no project had raised $1 million at this time last year, 17 projects passed that mark in 2012. (Read More)

They weren’t all killer ideas, but the ever-growing presence of consumer tech startups foretells the new shape of CES — and perhaps even the gadget world in general. Major tech companies may not have had many big announcements, but these emerging companies are where the future lies. (Read More)

The Pebble smartwatch, poster child of the new trend for wrist-worn smartphone companions, has entered mass production and will start shipping on January 23rd. 15,000 units per week will be produced and will initially be sent out to the nearly 70,000 Kickstarter backers who were behind the initial funding for the project.The Pebble project broke Kickstarter funding records, quickly surpassing its $100,000 goal and eventually reaching $10,267,000 in total funds. (Read More)

Pebble’s creators have announced that the much-anticipated item has entered mass production and they will start shipping 15,000 units per week starting on January 23rd to the people who were behind the initial funding for the project. (Read More)

The Pebble smartwatch, which enjoyed one of the most successful Kickstarter drives in history, is finally set to reach consumers. (Read More)

"We'll be manufacturing at the top rate of 15,000 Pebbles per week," he said, meaning it will take six to eight weeks to ship products to the project's backers, after which the company will begin fulfilling pre-orders placed via their website. New features announced include a magnetometer for compass-like functions and ambient light sensors, plus an accelerometer so the back-light can be activated by tapping or flicking the wrist. (Read More)

Kickstarter is a notoriously press-shy company. The founders, admirably, prefer the attention go to the projects fundraising on the site and wisely want to avoid the downside of the hype cycle by not encouraging said hype in the first place. But whether Kickstarter welcomed it or not, it was undeniably one of the biggest press stories of last year, playing a central role with two huge trends: The excitement around crowd funding and the resurgence of hardware in Silicon Valley. (Read More)

For the people who placed the 85,000 pre-orders for the Pebble Watch through its $10 million Kickstarter campaign, the wait will soon be over. CEO Eric Migicovsky announced at CES today that the first watches will ship out on January 23. (Read More)

The Pebble smart watch will start shipping to Kickstarter backers on Jan. 23, 2013. Pebble broke Kickstarter records, raising over $10 million for its smartphone companion watch... (Read More)

While Kickstarter’s hardware projects made headlines in 2012, film and gaming ideas (of both the video and board variety) were the real cash magnets for the crowdfunding site, raising a combined $176 million. (Read More)

It’s been a long road for the Pebble team, despite some initial success. After raising more than $10 million on Kickstarter for its smartwatch, and then facing several months worth of delays, the Pebble finally debuted at a CES press conference this morning (the company’s very first). (Read More)

What a year Kickstarter had in 2012. Tim Schafer's Double Fine kicked the crowd-funding website into orbit back in March, raising more than $3 million to make an old-school adventure game. (Read More)

Crowdfunding watch has gone from concept to reality and will reach customers' hands in the coming months (Read More)

Kickstarter saw a lot of action in 2012, and there were a ton of funded projects that ended up being a huge hit, the Pebble smartwatch and the OUYA game console just to name a few. Today, the online start-up service released some crazy statistics and figures of 2012, the main number being almost $320 million in pledges during those 12 months. (Read More)

Kickstarter saw a lot of action in 2012, and there were a ton of funded projects that ended up being a huge hit, the Pebble smartwatch and the OUYA game console just to name a few. Today, the online start-up service released some crazy statistics and figures of 2012, the main number being almost $320 million in pledges during those 12 months. (Read More)

With 3-D printing, makerspaces, and online forums about how to create hardware, it's never been easier to create a new gadget. And crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter have made it easier than ever to fund a new gadget. But selling a new gadget? (Read More)

Though the U.K. edition of crowdfund platform Kickstarter is still brand new, Forbes notes that one project on that platform has shattered some Kickstarter records. The Elite: Dangerous fund, from Cambridge-based gaming company Frontier Developments, asked for £1.25 million (just over $2 million) and successfully reached the fund goal with two days to go. The fund's now rushing toward $2.4 million in its closing hours.Elite, which debuted in 1984, was one of the first and most important pseudo-realistic space games. (Read More)

Pebble, the smartphone-friendly watch that raised over $10 million on Kickstarter -- $500,000 in the first day alone -- will be at CES 2013. (Read More)

Three years in, has Kickstarter lived up to its promise to disrupt entrepreneurship and artistic patronage? We look at some of the top Kickstarter projects from 2012 to find out. (Read More)

There we were, circled around a bachelor party campfire and drunk on keg beer, discussing the viability of using Kickstarter to fund a sex toy startup. (Read More)

Developer versions of the OUYA console were dispatched on Friday to the 1,200 people who had signed up and paid $699 for the privilege. The Kickstarter funded, Android powered new console should be arriving at the doors of developers very soon via airmail. (Read More)

Kickstarter is a place where entrepreneurs and artists can post ideas and raise money from other users. (Read More)

Crowdfunding site Kickstarter launched in April, 2009, and has revolutionized investment ever since. Through micro-funding, the platform managed to turn the internet into an online hub for raising money in small increments from the general public in support of a cause, product or project. In other words, suddenly, backing startups wasn’t just for venture capitalists, it was for everyman (and woman). (Read More)

Half the fun for tech-heads like myself is observing and tracking technologies looming on the horizon. (Read More)

With more than a dozen projects raising more than $1 million (some in less than a day), 2012 was a banner year for Kickstarter. Here are GigaOM's favorite campaigns from the worlds of connected devices, open-source technology and publishing. (Read More)

Kickstarter has successfully changed the way that thousands of inventors seek funding for their projects and in some cases, it’s given the average person an avenue to offer feedback and insight on a particular product well before it reaches manufacturing. (Read More)

If you've ever backed a Kickstarter campaign before, you might have been notified of a delay of some sort. Based on the top 50 most-funded projects on (Read More)

That’s why Peyton and fellow Brooklyn-based entrepreneurs Joe Lallouz and Aaron Henshaw decided to build a site to curate these kinds of products: Grand St., an online store for "electronics with heart." (Read More)

Hello my fellow data addicts. Today I wanted to touch on the progress of the experimental projection cone chart. As some of you may have seen a few weeks ago, I added a tabbed interface to the charts so the experimental charts were a little less top-secret. (Read More)

While whipping up some numbers for a fun contest Aaron over at Custora is running against his own Pebble data, I noticed something tonight is very familiar to my eyes. (Read More)