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| 8 Kickstarter Alternatives You Should Know About | | | Kickstarter is virtually synonymous with crowdfunding, and it's not hard to see why. Since the platform launched in 2009, Kickstarter has raised $368 million for projects that met or passed their goals and has helped launch nearly 80,000 projects in total. In fact, one month after launching in the U.K., Kickstarter had already generated more than $3 million worth of pledges from 45,000. Just as importantly, there have been several blockbuster success stories ranging from Double Fine's adventure game, which raised more than $3 million in a month to the Pebble watch, which raised more than $10 million by the end of its Kickstarter campaign.
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| Announcing a Live Chat With Likeable Founder Dave Kerpen | | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 3:45 PM | Scott Gerber |
| | Streaming live on Mashable, Likeable founder Dave Kerpen will answer questions from readers, at 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST) Thursday, Dec. 6. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Kerpen will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site. Dave Kerpen is the co-founder and CEO of Likeable, an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing firm comprised of communications and consultancy agency Likeable Media, and software platform Likeable Local. Kerpen and wife Carrie lead a team of over 60 people in working with brands, organizations, governments and small businesses to better leverage social media to become more transparent, responsive, engaged and likeable. Likeable was named to both the 2011 and 2012 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S.
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| College Television Awards Teams Up With Vimeo to Celebrate Best in Film | | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:43 PM | Neha Prakash |
| | The 34th College Television Awards have officially brought Vimeo in as the video platform for this year's competition. The awards, dubbed the Emmys for college students, and presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, will ask participants to use the social film sharing site to submit entries "Since Vimeo is one of the world's largest creative networks, they provide an ideal platform for these students to house and share their content with other creatives," Norma Provencio Pichardo -- executive director of the Television Academy Foundation -- tells Mashable.
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| Lose Something? These Tiny Stickers Will Find It | | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 12:20 PM | Eric Larson |
| | Good news for anyone prone to losing the TV remote A group of developers created a series of Bluetooth-powered stickers that track down the objects you're most likely to misplace. The StickNFind stickers are about the size of a U.S. quarter and sync with a smartphone app. They have a range of about 100 feet and a battery life that reportedly lasts almost a year Using them is easy: The objects you tag with the stickers are displayed on the app's screen, which lets you know how far away you are from them. If you lose something that's tagged, you can tap the object on your phone's screen, and the sticker will buzz and light up.
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| Kickstarter UK Raises 2 Million Pounds in First Month | | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 12:09 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| | Just one month after its launch, 407 Kickstarter UK projects have raised more than 2 million pounds, at a rate of 48 pounds in pledges per minute Thirty of those projects have already been successfully funded. The first project to reach its goal was the Chime Pavillion, an architecture project led by a group of second year students at the Manchester School of Architecture. While the project only needed 300 pounds to reach its goal, it raised 1,500. The first Kickstarter UK project to actually launch was Picade, a retro arcade cabinet for Raspberry Pi. It raised 75,000 pounds -- double what it needed
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