In January, Funding Launchpad is going to power a rewards-based crowdfunding project for Victory MMA Gym in Killeen, Texas. Killeen is the home of Fort Hood, which is the largest Army base in the United States. In the 2010 census, Fort Hood had a total population of 53,416! Victory MMA Gym is a mixed martial [...]
View Post 2013, crowdfunding, crowdfunding feature, fort hood, Funding Launchpad, january, small business, startup, texas, victory mma gym, wounded warrior projectSo, what does crowd funding look like? We have shared the stories of a lot of companies who have chosen to be at the forefront of the crowdfunding wave. We have told you about sports teams, breweries and distilleries, musicians, tech companies, and companies creating new green technology, just to name a few. To look [...]
View Post community, community owned, crowdfunding, general store, jefferson county, quimper peninsula, small town business, trailer, video, washington stateEarlier this week mobile scanner manufacturer Couragent Inc. announced they were launching an equity crowdfunding offering. Legally able to raise money from residents of Colorado, Illinois, New York, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, this makes Couragent the first American company to legally use investment crowdfunding. We are excited and thankful that Couragent chose to use Funding Launchpad’s [...]
View Post Colorado Companies to Watch, couragent, couragent.net, courinvestor.com, crowd funding, crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding, equity-based crowdfunding, flip pal, Fort Collins, Ft. Collins, genealogy, Gordon Nuttall, growth companies, heritage, investment crowd funding, investment crowdfunding, mobile scanner, mobile scanning, Northern Colorado, scrap booking, scrapbookingTired of having losing your headphones? Or spending 10 minutes untangling them every time you want to hear some music? Today’s crowdfunding feature, Flux Headphones, may be your answer. Flux Headphones have small, lightweight magnets that allow your headphones to stick to itself. Whether you wrap it to your wrist or stick it to the [...]
View Post BookEndz, crowd funding, crowdfunding, earbud, Flux Headphones, headphones, in-ear, iPhone, Just Dock It, Matt Scandora, pre-order, rewardsAre you an undiscovered American Idol? Better at singing than drawing? Today’s crowdfunding feature is Sing Me Something, an app where players sing a famous song while their opponents try to name the tune. Like many entrepreneurs who use crowdfunding, Askin Akhan, a programmer and student at University of Brighton, and Thomas De Vos, the [...]
View Post American Idol, appbackr, crowd funding, crowdfunding, Draw Me Something, investment crowdfunding, revenue share, Sing Me SomethingIt’s a show… It’s a video game… No, it’s IRL Shooter, a Melbourne-based production house that specializes in live action, videogame events. IRL Shooter is crowdfunding their next event, Patient 0, a zombie survival shooting game. And wow has the Patient 0 crowdfunding project been successful. It has raised AU$102,237 against a goal of AU$10,000 [...]
View Post art, Australia, crowd funding, crowdfunding, culture, film, games, gaming, horror, moviesToday’s crowdfunding feature is about acoustic solo artist James Hersch. Hersch is a pioneer user of Gig Funder, a donation-based crowdfunding platform that allows musicians to fund their tours. Hailing from Minnesota, Hersch has also spend time in music meccas Los Angeles and Nashville. He has played the college/church/community concert circuit for 33 years, including [...]
View Post 52 Songs, crowd funding, crowdfunding, crowdfunding feature, donation-based crowdfunding, James Hersch, music, reachwithme, tourImage you live in a rural location. Two of your greatest concerns are access to energy and water. Now imagine a technology that combines ambient air with solar energy to create inexpensive off grid electricity, with clean water as the only by-product. That is the technology behind Antecy, today’s investment crowdfunding feature. Antecy already has [...]
View Post Antecy, community, crowd funding, crowdfunding, green, investment crowdfunding, Netherlands, solar, sustainability, sustainable, Symbid, technologyToday we feature a crowdfunding project which recently successfully funded. Ubooly is a cuddly critter powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. Using a custom voice recognition app, Ubooly delivers educational and entertaining activities for children. Monthly WiFi updates keep the content fresh. Carly Gloge and Isaac Squires, founders of Ubooly, got production quotes [...]
View Post crowd funding, crowdfunding, donation-based crowdfunding, UboolyThe rest of the Perfect Earth investment crowdfunding feature… Crowdfunding is About More than Money Christian was delighted when two people separately approached him about potential large investments. Both also want to play a role in developing the project. Like Christian, both are willing to work for no salary [...]
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