Women 2.0 is a proud partner in Innovating Women, a groundbreaking project aimed at crowdsourcing a book detailing women’s contributions to STEM and innovation. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Women’s contributions to entrepreneurship, innovation and science and engineering are impressive, but their voices are often muted and their stories fade into the background. Innovating [...]
Posts Tagged "IndieGoGo"
Why Crisis-Hit Portugal Is the Perfect Place for Us to Start Up
April 23, 2013 – 11:00 am
Two German entrepreneurs living in crisis-hit Portugal explain why they think now is the perfect time to start their business and why they’ve turned to crowdfunding to get it off the ground. By Judith Asamoah (Co-founder, Boleiaponto.com) It all started in 2010. Sitting at the Guincho beach, one of the marvelous places just around the [...]
Getting Your Startup Funded Online (Infographic)
February 22, 2013 – 9:00 am
Four proven options online that can get you as much as $10 million in funding (that’s the record so far). By Anna Vital (Co-Founder, Vash; Founder, Funders & Founders) For all the hype that crowdfunding has caused, there are very few startups that have been crowfunded. Yet. The future is looking very good for crowdfunders. [...]
3 Lessons On Crowdfunding From uBiome, A Citizen Science Startup That Raised $200,000 In Less Than 3 Months
January 29, 2013 – 7:00 am
The world’s first citizen science campaign to sequence the human microbiome has raised almost $200,000 from 1500 people in over 30 countries in less than three months on Indiegogo – the largest successful citizen science project in history. How did we do it? By Jessica Richman (Co-Founder, uBiome) The microbiome are the bacteria that live [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Inspiring & Crowdfunding The Next Gen
December 21, 2012 – 8:00 am
Celebrating women entrepreneurs “doing well by doing good”, as microfinancing guru and entrepreneur Candace Klein would say. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) It’s been a good week for the passionate entrepreneurs who work to improve the lives of the next generation – Adafruit CEO and founder Limor Fried was announced as Entrepreneur [...]
Cheftabl Wins Hearts And Minds Through Indiegogo
December 1, 2012 – 3:40 pm
Making a pivot and focusing in on our core product in the Washington D.C. market and wanted to engage our community early. By Jill Richmond (CEO & Co-Founder, Cheftabl) My startup Cheftabl, a curated marketplace for the best “off-the-menu” dining experiences in each city launched a campaign on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. We, as a [...]
4 Marketing Mistakes Startup Founders Make
December 1, 2012 – 11:00 am
Learn what *not* to do from entrepreneurs in the startup trenches. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A recently list of Startup Marketing Mistakes held some useful tips and advice for startup marketing, tried-and-true from entrepreneurs in the trenches. They asked sage entrepreneurs – “What is the #1 marketing mistake startups make and [...]
Launching The Indiegogo Campaign For EnJai Earbuds
October 9, 2012 – 6:00 am
“With the help of my family and many years of R&D… over three additional years, we had a product that worked.” By Nancy Vartanian (Founder & CEO, shenYon) When I was 19 years old, I had a dream (literally) about a product idea. I quickly woke up and wrote it down in my notebook. I [...]
Turning Big Ambitions Into Reality: Dramagame Indiegogo Campaign
September 11, 2012 – 7:05 am
In Finland, we have this term “sisu” which means an attitude of not giving up. You do what it takes go forward. By Elina Arponen (Co-Founder & CEO, Tribe Studios) Dramagame is a whole new interactive experience, a type of social storytelling that has not been seen before. When we started to develop Dramagame, we [...]
Get A Better Smartphone Case On Crowdfunding Platform Indiegogo
August 3, 2012 – 9:20 am
Entrepreneur Susan Wilson is raising funds for Life-Case on Indiegogo – one week left to fund her! By Amy-Willard Cross (Editor, Vitamin W) You can’t really walk around with just a phone and a $20 bill. But most phone cases don’t let you stash more than that. Susan Wilson realized she didn’t want to carry [...]
