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Extracted 25FEB2013 from http://www.newgamernation.com/category/news/kickstarter-news/ [This is a interesting site to track] [Feb 6, 2013] Ex-Civilization 5 Lead Designer Jon Schafer just announced that he is starting a new indie studio called Con...
Read MoreExtracted 05APR2012 from http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/04/05/hbss-noam-wasserman-brings-... Harvard Business School (HBS) professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Si...
Read MoreExtracted 05APR2012 from http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mark-duplass-jeff-who-lives-at-home-car... Duplass Brothers... turned down flawed studio opportunities for an independent, DIY career, and it's paying off big time... With close ups, e...
Read MoreExtracted 04MAR2012 from http://www.ripten.com/2012/04/03/takedown-kickstarter-campaign-proves-to-be-a... As we reported earlier last week, the Kickstarter campaign for a Serellan, LLC’s new tactical shooter Takedown was winding down on April 1, 2...
Read MoreExtracted 27MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/bom3rh2 Social games company Mob Science has raised $1 million in a new round of funding, as a means of accelerating the growth of its social games portfolio. The company has released over a dozen games ...
Read MoreExtracted 21MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/83lltwo Developer and publisher Wargaming.net has revealed that World of Tanks, its client-based, free-to-play game, makes somewhere in the low end of "double-digit" millions in profits every month. The ...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/7vlmy9n Allen wants to make a shooter. An old-school tactical shooter (first person or third) like he used to develop at Red Storm. A game like the old Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon... This is what it would...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/769pklq Paul Graham’s Trough of Sorrow... the diagram which has become very well known among alumni and fans of Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley-based startup incubator. It describes, using feelings an...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/769pklq I'm working with a few startups right now that are in various phases of Paul Graham's startup curve: Many people think startups are up and to the right all the time. But more services exhibit thi...
Read MoreExtracted 12MAR2012 from http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-08/facebooks-payment-whales Looking to diversify its revenue beyond ads, Facebook has focused on trying to use its social network to create a payments network. While payments ma...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 from http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/06/deanbeat-game-companies-raised-a-record-bre... data for these fundings from the internet at large, the Internet DealBook, Digi-Capital, and the National Venture Capital Association... This...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 from http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/06/deanbeat-game-companies-raised-a-record-bre... Game fundings destroyed the record book for fundings this year as 145 companies raised more than $1.540 billion in 2011, not counting initial...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 from http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/29/game-fundings-and-acquisitions-rise-130-per... Video game acquisitions and funding deals rose 130 percent to $1.89 billion in 2010, up from $819 million in 2009, according to market resear...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 from http://venturebeat.com/2010/12/22/venturebeats-2010-funding-list-game-compani... 91 companies raised more than $1.05 billion in 2010. That number is up 58 percent from [2009], based on VentureBeat’s own research... Major V...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 from http://www.rockethub.com/ RocketHub is a launchpad and community for independent artists and entrepreneurs. We offer an innovative way to raise money (Crowdfunding) and tangible opportunities to take creative products and ...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickstarter Kickstarter (at www.kickstarter.com)... One of a new set of fundraising platforms dubbed "crowdfunding", Kickstarter facilitates gathering monetary resources from the general public,...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_funding Proponents of the crowd funding approach argue that it allows good ideas which do not fit the pattern required by conventional financiers to break through and attract cash through...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 from http://www.smallbusinesscrowd.com/news/finance-und-insurance/despite-populari... ...under current federal and state securities laws, crowd funding in exchange for an economic interest in the issuer is currently impermissib...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 from http://www.smallbusinesscrowd.com/news/finance-und-insurance/pros-and-cons-of... Pros:Crowd funding take advantage of the social nature of the crowd and not only allows you to get money from, but also as your crowd spreads...
Read MoreExtracted 05MAR2012 from http://smallbiztrends.com/2011/01/is-crowdfunding-next-big-financing-thing.html The Wall Street Journal recently took a look at the crowdfunding phenomenon, and talked to some experts who believe it’s about to take off. Us...
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