crowdfunding
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Reddit Starts Crowdfunding Site To Fill The World With Reddit Baubles
Reddit just launched a crowdfunding platform called Redditmade so moderators can enlist their fellow redditors to fund projects. Why ask outsiders to do something for you when you have your own in-house cabal at your disposal?
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Inside The Booming Business Of Kickstarter Coaches
Here’s a staggering statistic: Kickstarter backers pledge roughly $US1.5 million every day. Crowdfunding is a big business, despite its image as a folksy, grassroots-style approach to money. It’s so big, in fact, that it’s spawning a cottage industry of professionals who can help you cash in on your idea. For a fee.
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The $US1.5 Million Indiegogo Smartwatch Horror Story
Crowdfunding, like any gamble, preys on your hopes and dreams. Sometimes, you get the wonderful dream device you deserve. Other times, you get a million dollar pile of shit, like a smartwatch that can’t tell time. The Kreyos Meteor seems to fall into that second category.
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A Nest Of Copper Foam Lets This Tiny PC Run Silently Without Fans
You eventually tune it out, but the constant whir of a desktop computer’s cooling fans can take a toll on your psyche. It’s like a buzzing mosquito that never strikes, and never stops. So the folks at a German company called Silent Power have created a compact desktop PC that trades noisy fans for a…