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Caveat Kickstarter: Beware what you back
On the surface Kickstarter seems unbelievable -- a way for anyone with a dream and a game plan to get the funding they need to make that dream reality. In some cases, from LunaTik to Olloclip, that's exactly what it's turned out to be. For others, many others, it's ended in failure to launch and loss of money to the backers involved. Sascha Segan of PCMag A success rate of 33 percent is good for a venture capitalist, because actual investors expect to hit it big often enough to offset other losses.
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LunaTik Touch Pen seeks Kickstarter funding, an all in one rollerball and iPad stylus
The LunaTik Touch Pen is currently seeking Kickstarter funding and before you assume that it is just another stylus, it does offer something quite unique. The stylus is actually a rollerball pen but with a click of a button, the ink... Read Post
TAKTIK: A rugged case for the iPhone that doesn’t look like crap, from the makers of the LUNATIK
I’m really liking the look of this new TAKTIK project on Kickstarter. It’s a ruggedized iPhone case from the makers of the TIKTOK and LUNATIK iPod nano watches and it’s... Read Post
The iPod Nano Watch Nears $1 Million In Crowdsourced Funding From Kickstarter
About a month ago, we wrote about how the TikTok and LunaTik multi-touch watch kits were about to become the all-time leader in funding through Kickstarter, the crowdsourced fundraising startup. The project needed over $345,000 to g... Read Post