Campaign Focus: An E-paper Future
We’ve all seen at least one sci-fi movie where a character interacts with a magical display that acts just like paper, but can display new »
Identity: The Killer App of Crowdfunded Open Hardware
In the next 20 years, the notion of a secure, verifiable identity will be the killer app that drives the adoption of crowdfunded open hardware. Good »
Campaign Focus: 1btn to Rule Them All
A few years ago, Anand Tamboli, the creator behind Knewron’s 1btn campaign, found himself overwhelmed. It seemed to him that the veritable flood of new »
Campaign Focus: USBSafe2
Parents know there are some kids who meander their way through childhood, trying out this and that like a butterfly visiting flowers, until they find the »
Road Trip Report: LinuxFest NorthWest
Last weekend, some of the Crowd Supply crew took a road trip up north, to attend LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA. Darrell Rossman and CEO Josh »
Crowdfunding & Open Source: Better Together
A couple of decades ago, open source software was the domain of a small group of activist developers and computer scientists. By and large, they fancied »
Whose Crowd Is It Anyway?
Success Comes from Creating Community One of the most pervasive misunderstandings we encounter from creators is an incorrect idea about where backers come from. We touched »
Finding Your Crowd
For some of our creators, the hard part of crowdfunding is finding the right crowd. From the creator’s point of view, that’s understandable. They »
New Additions to "The Crowd Supply Guide"
We’ve made as couple of useful additions to The Crowd Supply Guide this week. We’ve added a page giving our recommendations for working with »
A New Year's Proclamation!
It’s a New Year, so as per tradition, in this post we’re going to reflect back a little and look forward a little. Year »