Category Archives: Interview

Jolla Crowdsourced Tablet Raises $2.5 Million+

Jolla Crowdsourced Tablet Raises $2.5 Million+

10 years ago in Interview
Jolla Tablet Campaign: Indiegogo’s  Highest Funded European & Asian Campaign (Ever!)  When the ‘people powered’ Finnish company Jolla wanted to know if the world really needed another tablet, the company turned to crowdfunding to find out. To reach an international audience including people ...
$1,000,000+ Raised in 32 Days on Crowdrise to Save Pets.

$1,000,000+ Raised in 32 Days on Crowdrise to Save

10 years ago in Interview
Seeking Financial Solutions to Reduce Pet Shelter Euthanasia    Reducing the number of animals euthanized in shelters every year is a challenging mission, even for the well-funded Gary Michelson’s Found Animals Foundation. Although the foundation offers cash prizes and grants to animal welfare ...
How Plum $693k raised on Fundable for their smart lighting app.

How Plum $693k raised on Fundable for their smart

10 years ago in Interview
Plum Raises $693,000, more than meeting a $500,000 Goal on Fundable   Advice for Fellow Crowd Funders As a successful crowdfunder, Utz Baldwin receives a lot of information requests from entrepreneurs. His advice includes: Managing the investor pipeline by using spreadsheets and entering people ...
$160,000 raised for Back to the Future documentary: Interview with Jason Aron

$160,000 raised for Back to the Future documentary

10 years ago in Interview
Jason Aron is the visionary behind ‘Back in Time’, the crowdfunded Back to the Future documentary. After a successful Kickstarter to raise the capital to make the movie, interviewing Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Zemeckis and more, Jason and his team returned to ...
$308,000 Crowdfunding raised for an awesome Coffee Grinder: Interview with Brandon Warman

$308,000 Crowdfunding raised for an awesome Coffee

10 years ago in Articles, Interview, Professionals
Brandon Warman is the co-founder of Handground, makers of the Professional Coffee Grinder. Their recent crowdfunder was extremely successful, raising nearly 900% of its original $35,000 target. Brandon was kind enough to answer a few questions for us on his experience. CE: What (if any) progress ...
$160k for ISEE 3 NASA Reboot crowdfunded, appropriately, on RocketHub

$160k for ISEE 3 NASA Reboot crowdfunded, appropri

10 years ago in Interview
In 2013 Dennis Wingo had a dream. That dream was to make contact with the ISEE3 satellite and see if he could bring it home to earth. With the help of a crowdfunding campaign, he began to make that possible. The International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) satellite was launched August 12, 1978, ...
$180k Raised – Crowdfunding Interview with Daniel Haarburger

$180k Raised – Crowdfunding Interview with D

10 years ago in Interview
Daniel is the founder of two very successful crowdfunding ventures: WingStand (a connector for your tablet or phone to a mobile keyboard) and HandleBand (a mount for your phone for the handlebars of your bike or motorbike).    CE: It’s amazing that you’ve been able to raise so much ...
Phone Halo Interview – Crowdfunding on Indiegogo w. Chris & Christian

Phone Halo Interview – Crowdfunding on Indie

11 years ago in Interview
Interview with the founders of Phone Halo, who raised over $400k on Indiegogo.   I got to sit down recently with my friends Chris Herbert and Christian Smith, have a glass of wine, and talk about their great success with their crowdfunding campaigns, ...
Hero-U Interview – Crowdfunding on Kickstarter w. Michael Cole.

Hero-U Interview – Crowdfunding on Kickstart

11 years ago in Interview
Crowdfunding Interview w. Hero-U’s Michael Cole. My friend Michael Cole successfully raised over $400,000 from 6,093 backers on Kickstarter for Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption. A role playing computer game being created by his parents, celebrated game designers Corey and Lori Cole. This campaign is ...