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| Jun 19, 2014 | The Bay Lights, The LED Art Project Backed By Big Tech Names, Kicks Off $1.2M Crowdfunding Campaign | Just over a year ago, a large scale art project called The Bay Lights turned the Bay Bridge, the San Francisco Bay Area structure that’s historically been the plainer sister to the famed Golden Gate Bridge, into a glittering destination in ... |
| May 18, 2014 | Porn Star (Re)tweets About Porn, Gets Her Medical Fundraiser Suspended | Image: ancient porn/Simone Tagliaferri
When porn performer Eden Alexander found herself with medical bills she was unable to pay, her friends did what many people do these days and held a fundraiser on GiveForward, a WePay platform service ... |
| May 17, 2014 | WePay Withholds Funds From Sick Woman Due To Offer Of Porn For Donations | Should credit card processors and crowdfunding sites be able to deny funds to adult entertainers and sex workers? That’s the question at the heart of an unfortunate situation where donated medical funds are being withheld from a sick woman.... |
| Apr 30, 2014 | FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Pledges Open Internet in Face of Criticism | Federal Communication Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler vigorously defended his new Open Internet proposal during a speech on Wednesday, following a tsunami of criticism from advocates of “net neutrality,” the principle that consumers should ... |
| Apr 27, 2014 | Alexis Ohanian Wants To Put A Pro-Net Neutrality Billboard “Right In The FCC’s Backyard” | Recent news that the FCC may consider changes to net neutrality that would allow some content providers to pay ISPs for faster delivery speeds to consumers has many worried about the future impartiality of the Internet.
Alexis Ohanian, know... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Silicon Valley heavyweights are helping underprivileged teens make iOS games | MakeGamesWith.Us, a company that teaches mostly high school and college students how to make iOS games, has just pooled together its first scholarship fund.
The cash will bring underprivileged teenagers to SF and NYC for the summer to learn... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Silicon Valley heavyweights are helping underprivileged teens make iOS games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
MakeGamesWith.Us, a company that teaches mostly high school and college students how to make iOS games, has just pooled together its fi... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | Stopping another Heartbleed: This Aussie startup is gathering global developers to squash OpenSSL bugs | There might be even more issues with the OpenSSL software, used to keep websites and your details safe, that we aren’t aware of yet. Australian startup BugCrowd has a plan to fix these problems.
Earlier this month, a flaw was found in the o... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | A Very Flappy Crowdtilted Journalism Experiment | Two weeks ago, I did a small experiment. I put a campaign on Crowdtilt to raise money to go to Vietnam and talk to Dong Nguyen, the creator of the sleeper hit Flappy Bird. At the absolute peak of the game’s hype, Nguyen pulled it from the s... |
| Mar 4, 2014 | TC Cribs: Crowdtilt’s Spacious HQ, Where Ring Toss Rules And Imaginations Run Wild | Welcome back to a new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the show that knocks on the doors of some of tech’s hottest companies to see what the 9-to-5 life is like for the people who work inside.
This time we headed to Crowdtilt, the startup that ... |
| Mar 4, 2014 | The Dating Ring Is Raising Money To Fly Women From NYC To SF, Because Dating | So this is what it’s come to.
The Dating Ring, a Y Combinator-incubated, group matchmaking startup that recently expanded from New York to San Francisco, is running a Crowdtilt campaign with the stated goal of flying women from NYC to SF. H... |
| Mar 1, 2014 | This Industry Is Completely Ridiculous. Let’s Hope It Stays That Way. | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Feb 20, 2014 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) launches open source customizable crowdfunding platform, now CrowdtiltOpen | Fresh off its $23 million in Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz and others, crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt is opening up its open source, white-label platform CrowdtiltOpen to all interested business users as of today. This product,... |
| Feb 20, 2014 | 'Balanced' Integrates Bitcoin Payments for 450+ Online Marketplaces | Balanced
, a San Francisco-based company that provides a payment API for online marketplaces has today announced plans to integrate bitcoin into its system.
The company's co-founder and CEO Matin Tamizi told CoinDesk that its marketpla... |
| Feb 20, 2014 | Marketplace Payments Startup Balanced Partners With Coinbase And Adds Bitcoin Support | Payments platform Balanced has been gradually adding features to enable marketplaces to accept and make payments out to their users. Today the company is announcing that it’s integrated with Coinbase and will allow its customers to accept B... |
| Feb 20, 2014 | Crowdtilt Publicly Launches Its Open Source, Customizable Crowdfunding Platform, Now Called CrowdtiltOpen | Fresh off its $23 million in Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz and others, crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt is opening up its open source, white-label platform CrowdtiltOpen to all interested business users as of today. This product,... |
| Feb 10, 2014 | Edward Snowden’s NSA Revelations Win Crunchie For Biggest Social Impact | Tonight at the Crunchies, Edward Snowden’s massive leak of NSA material won the Biggest Social Impact category.
Besting rivals like Code.org and CrowdTilt, Snowden’s successful efforts to demask the mass surveillance undertaken by the Natio... |
| Jan 26, 2014 | How Cryptocurrency, Crowdfunding And A Little Internet Altruism Saved Jamaica’s Hopes For Bobsled Gold | Just in case you missed it, a heart-warming story unfolded this week involving an unlikely combination of bobsled, Jamaica, virtual currency, crowdfunding and generosity. It has all the makings of an inspiring Disney movie — er, an inspirin... |
| Jan 24, 2014 | It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way | There is a story being told about us here in the tech industry in San Francisco — that we are entitled, or that we are oblivious. I don’t believe that’s true. Or I don’t believe that it has to be true.
I’m worried that if we do not have a c... |
| Jan 21, 2014 | Cool Runnings 2: Jamaican bobsled team raises $130K on Crowdtilt for Winter Olympics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it’s ... |
| Jan 21, 2014 | Cool Runnings 2: Jamaican bobsled team raises $130K on Crowdtilt for Winter Olympics | Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it’s crowdfunding time.
The Jamaican bobsled team has raised nearly $130,000 on Crowdtilt so it can compete in the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Contributions made using the Bitcoin alternativ... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Crowdfunding Site Pozible Offers A Kickstarter Alternative For Asia-Based Projects | Kickstarter is undoubtedly the top crowdfunding site in the world, with over $480 million pledged in 2013. For projects outside of the five countries (the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) the platform is available in, however, ... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Crowdtilt Raises $23M in Series B Funding | Crowdtilt, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform connecting people and payments for group experiences, purchases and causes, raised $23m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from SV An... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Crowdtilt raises $23M to turn crowdfunding into a daily habit | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Crowdtilt is trying to turn crowdfunding into a d... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Crowdtilt Closes $23M Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Technology platform connecting people and payments for group experiences, purchases and causes, has raised $23 million in Series B funding.
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| Dec 16, 2013 | Crowdtilt raises $23M to expand internationally | The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and brings its total funding to $37 million
Over the past few years, crowdfunding has become a more useful tool, especially for those without connections and resources, to find ways to fund their pr... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Crowdtilt raises $23M to turn crowdfunding into a daily habit | Crowdtilt is trying to turn crowdfunding into a daily occurrence.
The startup has just raised $23 million to expand its vision and platform for crowdfunding around the world, making the technology more accessible to a larger group of people... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) Raises Another $23 Million From Andreessen Horowitz & Others | Crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt wasn’t looking to raise another round, but when their Series A lead investor Andreessen Horowitz offered to lead their B round, the team decided it would make sense given their plans. Today, the company is an... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Crowdtilt Raises Another $23 Million From Andreessen Horowitz & Others For International Expansion, Enterprise Tools | Crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt wasn’t looking to raise another round, but when their Series A lead investor Andreessen Horowitz offered to lead their B round, the team decided it would make sense given their plans. Today, the company is an... |
| Dec 3, 2013 | The One Percent Foundation, A Non-Profit, Wants To Help Millennials Turn Philanthropy Into A Habit | “Philanthropist” is a daunting word that conjures up images of Bruce Wayne and other people with so much excess money and time that they have to give it away. Most of us, on the other hand, need to budget carefully and the relatively modest... |
| Nov 22, 2013 | Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht Denied Bail, Supporters Aim to Raise $500k for Legal Defence | Ross Ulbricht, the alleged founder of online black marketplace Silk Road, has been denied bail.
At the 29-year-old's bail hearing yesterday (21st November), defence lawyer Joshua Dratel proposed a bail package of over $1m, pledged by U... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | McSweeney's Publishing House Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for $15. Yup. For $15. | November 6, 2013 2 min read
Aim low and you virtually guarantee success. And if you aim really, really low, then you can orchestrate a reason to bust out the champagne without having achieved much of anything at all.
So it is with the crowd... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | Why Blacksburg, VA is the Best Kept Startup Secret in America | When you think about startups, entrepreneurship, and technology, typically you think of Silicon Valley (“The Valley”), New York City, DC, Austin, and other major cities and towns. However, you are missing one town that is the best kept secr... |
| Sep 25, 2013 | In Search Of The Perfect Polo: Hands-On With Vastrm’s Home Try-On Service | Y Combinator alum Vastrm has been pretty busy lately. In addition to locking up another $1 million in seed funding from A16z, SV Angels, Ignition Partners, and Will Smith (to name a few), the startup redesigned its website slightly modified... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | Growing Payment-Splitting Platform PayByGroup Expands Internationally | PayByGroup, a 500 Startups-backed payments platform that lets friends split the cost of purchase on bigger items like vacation rentals, parties, trips, sports tickets and more, is now making its service available internationally. The San Fr... |
| Sep 13, 2013 | Social Good Summit Austin Seeks to Change the World | The second annual Social Good Summit Austin takes place on Sept. 24th at the Austin Community College Eastview Campus at 3401 Webberville Road.
The event runs from 1:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The keynote speakers include Mina Chang, president of... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Crowdtilt launching mobile app to crowdfund 'from your pocket' | SAN FRANCISCO — Crowdtilt announced today that it is releasing a mobile app onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt.
“We have built the most powerful crowdfunding platform out there,” cofounder and CEO James Beshara said. “But sometimes you don’t nee... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Crowdtilt launching mobile app to crowdfund 'from your pocket' | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — Crowdtilt announced today that it is releasing a mobile app onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt.
“We have built the most powe... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | Crowdtilt unveils Crowdhoster to 'infect the world' with crowdfunding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Crowdtilt CEO James Beshara has a radical vision ... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | Crowdtilt Launches Crowdhoster To Let Anyone Create, Customize And Host Their Own Crowdfunding Campaigns | Thanks to the JOBS Act and the rise of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the parade of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding has gone mainstream. However, according to the minds behind Crowdtilt — the Y Combinator-incubated platfo... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | Crowdtilt unveils Crowdhoster to 'infect the world' with crowdfunding | Crowdtilt CEO James Beshara has a radical vision for crowdfunding, and its a lot bigger than Kickstarter. Today the Y Combinator startup publicly debuted its open source crowdfunding tool called Crowdhoster that lets any person or organizat... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) launches Crowdhoster, the world’s most flexible open source crowd funding platform | Thanks to the JOBS Act and the rise of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the parade of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding has gone mainstream. However, according to the minds behind Crowdtilt — the Y Combinator-incubated platfo... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) launches Crowdhoster, the world's most flexible open source crowd funding platform | Thanks to the JOBS Act and the rise of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the parade of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding has gone mainstream. However, according to the minds behind Crowdtilt — the Y Combinator-incubated platfo... |
| Aug 13, 2013 | ixi-play (YC S13) launches an Android-powered smart robot for your kids for $299, now available for preorder | Isn’t a baby monitor effectively a waste of technology? With a bit more thought and an operating system, couldn’t it do much more with its components than just scope your infant? That’s the premise behind Y Combinator-backed ixi-play, an An... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | Amidst Few Exits, “Dabbling” Investors And Dearth Of Seed Capital, A Growing Digital Health Market Turns To Crowdfunding | Over the last few years, digital health has emerged as a market rife with opportunity, and both startups and investors are beginning to take notice. Investments in digital health startups doubled from 2009 to 2011, for example, and that gro... |
| Jun 21, 2013 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) raises $750K for Soylent and many others: Open source crowd funding with no restrictions | Crowdtilt has been busy this summer, and details its latest on its blog:
It’s been a crazy early summer here at the Crowdtilt office in San Francisco: the first political candidate on Crowdtilt kicked off his campaign for Mayor of Oakland ... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | Crowdfunding Campaign Aims To Reward NSA Whistleblower For His ‘Courage’ | Edward Snowden is being hailed as a hero by some, and now a Crowdtilt crowdfunding campaign is raising money to reward the whistleblower for his “courage” and pay his bills. The campaign doesn’t specify how the money will be delivered to Sn... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | Whistleblower Snowden hailed as a hero across the Web | Petitions have popped up to pay PRISM leaker's bills, and to get the White House to pardon him
In case you somehow missed it, the big news on Sunday was the revelation that 29-year-old former CIA employee Edward Snowden, who has worked... |
| May 21, 2013 | Crowdhoster by Crowdtilt (YC W12) launches custom reward levels, themes, and multiple campaigns | YC company Crowdtilt recently announced its $12M Series A with Sean Parker and Andreessen Horowitz and is on a roll with their latest updates to their open source self-hosted crowdsourcing platform, Crowdhoster.
Their latest updates includ... |
| Apr 18, 2013 | Crowdtilt Raises $12M in Series A Financing | Crowdtilt, a San Francisco, CA-based platform for funding group activities, experiences, and purchases, raised $12m in Series A financing.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sean Parker, SV Angel and DCM, Crun... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Crowdfunding Platform Crowdtilt Lands $12M From Sean Parker, Andreessen & More; Now Acquiring To Expand Into Mobile | After graduating from Y Combinator, Crowdtilt launched in February of last year to become “the Kickstarter for any group.” More specifically, the startup has been on a mission to become the platform of record for all manners of group fundra... |
| Mar 14, 2013 | Aggregift Turns Anything On Amazon Into A Crowdfunded, Group Gift | A new gifting startup called Aggregift is launching an entirely new way to purchase goods on Amazon. The company, which has been quietly running its beta tests with a few thousand users over the past several months, allows users to initiate... |
| Feb 23, 2013 | The Real Top 15 Venture Capital Deals Of 2012 | Editor’s note: Brad Garlinghouse is CEO of YouSendIt, the cloud file collaboration service. Brad previously held senior executive positions at AOL and Yahoo. He’s also an avid angel investor in and advisor to several consumer and enterprise... |
| Feb 9, 2013 | Adolescent entrepreneur will get tattoo in exchange for users | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Entrepreneurs are willing to do some desperate th... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Crowdtilt’s latest product helps those who can’t code, crowdfund | Crowd funding is as hot right now as English-Irish boy band One Direction and everybody wants a piece.
Crowdtilt has released a new product called CrowdHoster that makes it easy to build a custom crowdfunding site without having to write an... |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Crowdtilt Launches Crowdfunding API To Give Developers Easy Access To Group Payments & Social Fundraising | Since launching in February, Y Combinator grad Crowdtilt has been on a mission to become the easiest way for friends and groups of people to raise money for any cause. Last month, the group-funding platform added deeper support for non-prof... |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) releases the Crowdtilt API to let any website crowdfund and tilt purchases | Taking the ax to the silo is Crowdtilt, a year-old crowdfunding company built by cofounders James Beshara, 26, and Khaled Hussein, 28. This morning, the San Francisco startup released the first full-service crowdfunding API, allowing develo... |
| Dec 7, 2012 | Got milk? First ever “Growthathon” will help 7 startups get big and strong | When children want to grow, they drink milk. When startups want to grow, the solution is not so simple. Rather than the slow-and-steady approach of a glass of milk a day, seven startups are coming together tomorrow at the first ever Growtha... |
| Dec 7, 2012 | Got milk? First ever “Growthathon” will help 7 startups get big and strong | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When children want to grow, they drink milk. When... |
| Nov 22, 2012 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) now supports nonprofit fundraising, with half the fees of competitors and immediate transfer | Online group-funding campaign platform, Crowdtilt, has an update to its service. It has become certified to legally secure fundraisers for any registered 501(c)(3) organizations. And on top of that, starting today, it can issue tax-deductib... |
| Nov 21, 2012 | Group-Funding Platform Crowdtilt Opens To Non-Profits, Now Offers Tax-Deductible Donations, Receipts | Since we first covered its launch back in February, Crowdtilt has been on a mission to become the easiest way for groups of people to collaborate around money, specifically fundraising, for any cause. In other words, Crowdtilt wants to beco... |
| Nov 16, 2012 | Y Combinator-Backed Balanced Raises $1.4M To Provide A Payment Platform For Peer-To-Peer Marketplaces | There are a growing number of peer-to-peer marketplaces out there, helping to match up workers and sellers with products or skills, with buyers who wish to take advantage of them. But for those marketplaces to work, they don’t just need pay... |
| Nov 8, 2012 | PayByGroup’s new feature takes the hassle out of group ticket buying | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Nobody wants to attend a concert or a sporting ev... |
| Nov 7, 2012 | Crowdtilt funds pipe dreams into existence | A boat is not normally something you want to tilt over, unless it is a yacht party and you are trying to Crowdtilt it.
Last week, startup Crowdtilt enabled the largest crowd funded party to date. Its Halloween mega yacht party in the San Fr... |
| Nov 7, 2012 | Crowdtilt funds pipe dreams into existence | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A boat is not normally something you want to tilt... |
| Nov 6, 2012 | Given.to Wants To Take The Guesswork Out Of Pitching In Money For Group Gifts | The gifting space has been very hot lately in the web world — Facebook is even seeing gift-giving as having major potential for boosting its revenue — and now another brand new startup is throwing its hat into the ring. Given.to made its of... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | No More Awkward “You Owe Me Money” Reminders: PayByGroup Lets Friends Split Group Purchases | Following its participation in 500 Startups’ fall batch, a company called PayByGroup is now launching a beta version of its new service which, as the name implies, makes it easier for friends to split the payment on group purchases. This in... |
| Sep 18, 2012 | Crowdfunding: risky but rewarding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last month, Amazon pulled the plug on the e-book ... |
| Jul 3, 2012 | Little “Want” Button Code Foreshadows Big Things For Facebook Ecommerce | Last week, developer Tom Waddington uncovered Facebook code that points to the creation of a “Want” button — a plugin that potentially points to a new kind of commercial innovation being developed by Facebook itself, different from “want” b... |
| Jun 29, 2012 | Alexia’s Headphones: How We Used CrowdTilt’s Group-Funding Platform To Replace Stolen Property | On the 25th of June, our dearest Alexia Tsotsis had an incredibly rough day.
First, her car was looted by very bad people in San Francisco, who stole her laptop and a pair of excellent Bose headphones that were near and dear to her heart. A... |
| May 17, 2012 | Kickstarter For Groups And Events: YC Alum Crowdtilt Picks Up $2.1M From SV Angel, YC Partners And More | The rush of interest around crowdfunding is spawning many variations on the theme, and one of the more original of them — Crowdtilt, part of the most recent crop of Y Combinator startups — is today announcing a funding round of $2.1 million... |
| May 17, 2012 | Funding daily: Pin a few millions to your Pinterest board | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Happy Facebook IPO eve! Check out the companies g... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | YC Demo Day Session 3: Crowdtilt, Flypad, Carsabi, Anyperk, TiKL, Dealupa, Priceonomics, Kyte, EveryArt | Crowdfunding, gaming, finding deals, and decorating your office — these are some of the ideas powering the startups in Y Combinator‘s Winter 2012 Demo Day session three. We’re here at Mountain View’s Computer History Museum covering the flu... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Y Combinator shows off 39 companies at Demo Day | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Y Combinator’s semi-annual Demo Day is taking pla... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Crowdtilt lets you pool money among friends | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Crowdtilt wants you to take the pool of money you... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | TechCrunch’s Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator Demo Day | 65 startups showed off today at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, and we covered all 39 that were ready for the public. After talking to VCs and tech moguls, the TechCrunch teamed huddled up and picked these 10 companies as the best. They’re disrupt... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Crowdtilt lets you pool money among friends | Crowdtilt wants you to take the pool of money your friends gather for a vacation and put it online. The company does crowdfunding for small groups of people who already know each other; friends and family looking to pool their money for a c... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Y Combinator shows off 39 companies at Demo Day | Y Combinator’s semi-annual Demo Day is taking place today, and 66 companies are pitching their products at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Twenty seven of the presenting companies are still in stealth mode.
Twice a... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | Does A 'Don't Mess With The Internet' Billboard Violate Texas' Trademark? | We recently covered a plan, hatched at SXSW, to crowdfund a billboard in Lamar Smith’s home district, with the statement “Don’t Mess With The Internet” on it — in response to Smith’s sponsorship of a series of anti-internet bills, most nota... |
| Mar 12, 2012 | Help Fund A 'Don't Mess With The Internet' Billboard In Lamar Smith's District | Lamar Smith has really become the enemy of the internet. He’s the main sponsor behind both SOPA and the very dangerous data retention bill that he disguised as an anti-child porn bill, even though it does nothing to stop child porn. Don’t t... |
| Feb 13, 2012 | Crowdtilt (YC W12) Launches To Become The “Kickstarter For Any Group” | A new startup launching today called Crowdtilt is taking a page out of Kickstarter’s book, riffing on “crowdfunding,” but instead choosing to call itself “groupfunding” or a “Kickstarter for groups of friends.”
What does that mean? Well, w... |
| Feb 10, 2012 | Crowdtilt launches to group fund anything (and it means anything) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Crowdtilt, a new group-funding site backed by sta... |
| Feb 10, 2012 | Y Combinator-Backed Crowdtilt Launches To Become The “Kickstarter For Any Group” | Inherently, we like doing things in groups, as it makes our experiences more social. It’s not about what we’re doing so much as who we’re doing it with that makes our experiences enjoyable. Group messaging took off two years ago, overrunnin... |
