Kickstarter lays down the law: ‘We’re not a store’

With a few changes to the rules, Kickstarter hopes to remind creators and backers exactly what makes the website special.

Kickstarter dodges responsibility for failed projects

What happens if a crowdsourced project fails? Do contributors get their money back?

In an NPR interview, Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler seems to suggest that has never happened ... that failed projects which are unable to deliver promised goods are "a bridge that has not yet been crossed."

Kickstarter funding explodes, on pace to triple this year to around $300M

We’ve been reporting on a lot of very cool tech and gaming projects that have found huge success on the New York-based crowdfunding platform Kickstarter this year. The site, which never had a million dollar project before 2012, keeps breaking …

Kickstarter gets its third $1M project in the span of two weeks with Order of the Stick

It was big news when a Kickstarter project broke the $1 million dollar mark for the first time on February 9th. More amazingly, two projects shattered that record in the same day. Now another project, The Order of the Stick …