For example, online crowdfunding channels like Kickstarter.com and IndieGoGo.com can help start-ups land financing to grow.
Here are nine great examples of neat gadgets or concepts that successfully funded at IndieGoGo.
The device is currently available for "pre-order" on Indiegogo, with an estimated March ship date.
Indiegogo is committed to empowering people with unique missions, to make their ideas a reality.
Indiegogo first went after the indie film market before opening up their platform to other categories.
Note and update: All Axess recently launched their online campaign on Indiegogo (instead of Kickstarter).
Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are the primary crowd-funding services out there, but the two sites differ considerably.
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To see their campaign to change the way playing guitar is taught and learned, visit Indiegogo.
Crowdfunding, available on Kickstarter.com, IndieGoGo.com and other such sites, links fundraisers to a large pool of small-dollar contributors.
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The watch is being sold through crowdfunding site Indiegogo, a popular crowdfunding site for social entrepreneurs.
To help defray legal costs, she is launching a campaign on crowdfunding site Indiegogo this week to raise money.
Today, the two biggest crowdfunding destinations, Indiegogo and Kickstarter, offer different approaches to what gets presented on their sites.
Enter Zuvo Water, which has hopped on Indiegogo to fund its elaborate and tech-centric Stratus water purification system.
Indiegogo is now in his crosshairs, though it has explicitly stated that it will not be discontinuing the fundraiser.
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If you want a broad, non-focused platform, Indiegogo is a good option.
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Generally, those organizations utilize a third party platform (like Indiegogo) which keeps some of the take as an administrative fee.
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The money, collected on fundraising site Indiegogo in the account name "Jackal Anon", will be used for development and hosting fees.
To that end, The Gabriel Institute, which focuses on improving the Teamability of organizations, has started an Indiegogo fundraiser.
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Since the launch of sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, fantasy fans have been awash in worthy projects that need help from fans.
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You can check out the IndieGoGo campaign for GravityLight here .
Deutsch, who says the cost of recording these days is out of whack, has also embraced crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter, RocketHub and Indiegogo.
Slava Rubin is CEO and cofounder of four-year-old Indiegogo, a funding platform (and Kickstarter rival) that takes a 4% to 9% cut of monies raised.
But where Kickstarter focuses on funding projects to completion, IndieGoGo promotes the broad funding of ideas, from for-profit businesses to not-for-profit causes to creative endeavors.
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There was no doubt, he said, that Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sites such as Indiegogo had kicked off a revival of the small gaming studio.
For more details, feel free to check out the video after the break or peruse the project's Indiegogo page by clicking at the source link.
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Oatmeal, The American Cancer Society, The National Wildlife Federation and Indiegogo.
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The tour, partially crowdfunded on Indiegogo, rolled from Colorado to Kentucky and highlighted individuals and businesses whose success has been impacted by an open Web.
Currently being funded through an Indiegogo campaign, the GravityLight hopes to change that by offering a cheap lamp that runs on an entirely renewable resource.
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For donation based crowdfunding sites like IndieGoGo, any person, company or project can raise money, with the prominence of the project dictated by its ensuing popularity.
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Many crowdfunding solutions look and feel like communities first, building a critical mass of people interested in the concept, but IndieGoGo has always been a commercial venture.
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