Using Kickstarter, the VLC team aims to turn the open source video player from an ugly duckling into a Metro-fied swan.
A leading academic worries that the ecosystem for entrepreneurs needs a lot of improvement.
Guest Post Today Lumawake launched a crowdfunding campaign for its revolutionary iPhone dock. The company's approach may provide insight into how future product designers should consider approaching crowdfunding.
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Guest Post Dodging the details? Ignoring the risk factor? Here's how to make your Kickstarter a Kickstopper.
Star Citizen developer hopes to blast through to a successful finale on Kickstarter.
Crowdtilt throws the largest crowd funded party ever, when its not saving schools or raising money for wedding gifts.
Pipe-smoking robots hunt humans across the English countryside in Sir, You Are Being Hunted.
"City geek" and entrepreneur creates a crowd funding platform for civic projects.
Star Citizen has raised over $500,000 on Kickstarter. That brings the crowdfunding total to $1.9 million.
Editor's Pick You've seen our top New York City technology influencers, but we also want to spotlight the top 10 most interesting startups the city has to offer.
The programmers on the game have left the developers and production is at a standstill as the project director already spent all of the Kickstarter funds.
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Crowdfunding leader Kickstarter will launch in the U.K. on Oct. 31, giving people outside the U.S. the chance to create projects on its platform for the first time.
Jeff Dee, one of the artists who contributed to the amazing and eclectic Advanced Dungeons & Dragons tome Deities and Demigods in 1980, is re-creating much of the art from that book.
Editor's Pick A growing number of people will attest to the rush of donating their hard-earned cash to projects on crowdfunding sites, and tracking them as they build companies or crash and burn. It's time we took a deep dive into the mentality of the "serial backer."
Project Eternity is one of the quickest-growing RPG worlds, but it's limited to PCs for a reason.
It's like crowdfunding goes pro. Gambitious combines fan contributions with investor participation as well in its crowdfunding platform.
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
With a few changes to the rules, Kickstarter hopes to remind creators and backers exactly what makes the website special.
