crowdfunding

While nobody enjoys cramming themselves into coach, onboard tensions often escalate when cruising altitudes are reached and seats start reclining.

“I wear your granddad’s clothes, I look incredible.” It’s been nearly three years since Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” was released, but thanks to one new Kickstarter project we can continue looking incredible in clothes from fashion-forward grandpas.

I am completely engrossed by the Olympics. While I loved watching the games in person in Atlanta, ’96 and Turin, ’06, I can’t imagine watching a loved one compete for gold and glory.

Every entrepreneur’s worst nightmare is to spend months or years working on a product only to have it launch to crickets.

Back-to-school shopping was never my favorite summer activity as a child, but a slight smile crept across my face whenever my parents let me pick out a new backpack.

Imagine a world where instead of being illuminated by electric streetlights, your neighborhood were lit up at night by genetically engineered “glowing plants.” That is the world Antony Evans is hoping to create.

After watching the fifth runaway umbrella tumbling down Pawleys Island beach on July 4th, I thought to myself, “Why hasn’t someone launched a Kickstarter for a better beach umbrella design?”

Although Keurig coffee systems still dominate many kitchen countertops, it seems their popularity is on the decline.

If you’ve ever been confused (or annoyed) by a stranger who begins speaking to you as if you were a close friend, only to realize they are on a bluetooth headset and are indeed mid-conversation with a good friend, prepare yourself.

When most people talk about investing in a business, they are referring to the purchase of ownership shares (aka equity). That too is the case when it comes to investment crowdfunding, but there are alternatives.

When equity crowdfunding opened for business a few weeks ago, I mentioned my first investment in the new asset class was with Cleveland Whiskey, an innovative whiskey distillery that can age a batch of whiskey in a day (compared to the 8-12 year norm).

It’s been over 80 years since normal Americans could invest in privately held startups. It’s also been over four years since the laws intended to change that fact were signed by President Obama.

Like many crowdfunders before him, the founder of the sub-$100 3D printer Peachy completely misjudged the delivery estimate he promised to the 5,000+ backers who pledged a total of $651,091 CAD to his Kickstarter project in 2013.

If picking a meal that fits our current taste, budget and caloric preference wasn’t already difficult enough, humans face an endless variety of beverage options when dining out. Beer, wine or cocktail? Non-alcoholic? Okay, diet or regular? Sparkling, still or tap?

Even though it has saved me hundreds of dollars in energy costs, my favorite feature of the Nest thermostat is the ability to control my home’s temperature from my phone during weekend-long Netflix binges.

Kickstarter is a place for bringing new ideas to life, but with large sums of money changing hands on the platform every day, it has become a prime target for a deceptive breed of entrepreneurs.

When Virtuix pitched the panel of investors on ABC’s Shark Tank in 2013, they had already raised more than a million dollars in pre-sales on Kickstarter for their immersive virtual reality treadmill, the Omni.

It is common practice in the auto industry to take good faith deposits from customers wanting to get the latest and greatest models as soon as they roll off the assembly line, but what Tesla is doing for their Model 3 launch is unprecedented.

I have backed over 30 Kickstarter campaigns, but I have yet to pledge a single dollar on rival crowdfunding site IndieGoGo.

While studying abroad in Scotland in 2006, I may have drunk my weight in the malty cask ales that have been served in Edinburgh pubs for centuries. But when I returned last May, I was pleasantly surprised by the hoppy Punk IPA from BrewDog, a Scottish brewery founded in 2007.

While Hillary Clinton is still the odds-on favorite to win the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, there is one polling platform where Bernie Sanders reigns supreme: Kickstarter.

Punxsutawney Phil really nailed it this year: last week’s unseasonably warm temperatures have me excited to head out to the great outdoors for some springtime adventures.

When over 60,000 people pledged over $13 million to the Coolest Cooler Kickstarter campaign in the fall of 2014, they expected they would be sipping on freshly blended beachside margaritas by the spring of 2015.

The U.S. recently saw its record-breaking 4,144th craft brewery open. That rapid growth has many asking: Where in the world are all these professional brewers coming from?

When Avatar first hit screens in 2009, moviegoers were blown away by the immersive 3-D world of Pandora James Cameron created. Seven years later though, consumers have already moved on to the next big thing in immersive video: 360-degree virtual reality.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Michael Williamson has dealt with rain his entire life. But when Old Man Winter rears his ugly head, layering a favorite hooded sweatshirt under a waterproof jacket gets too bulky for Williamson, especially when he’s out snowboarding the Cascade Range.

Over the last two and a half years, I’ve shared over 10,000 words (100 words x 100+ posts) about interesting crowdfunding campaigns with readers of The 100 eNewsletters.

Like many other millennials, Hill Schroder spent much of his childhood overly medicated. Yet it wasn’t until he ditched the medication for meditation that he finally began feeling calm and centered.

No matter how many delicious options there may be for a quick lunch near your office, we all know that eating out every day can quickly inflate our waistlines while simultaneously deflating our wallets.

Although MARTA can get you quickly to the airport to catch one of the more than 2,700 flights leaving Hartfield-Jackson daily, what if it was instead one cog in a globally connected subway system? One that connected five continents, 214 major cities and 11,924 subway stations?