The Three Ways to Get Funding from the Crowd
Contrary to popular belief, there is not a crowd of people out there in the world just waiting to hear about your awesome idea and give »
Impossible Products: Crowdfunding for Hardware Startups (VIDEO)
Crowdcast Webinar - Impossible Products: Crowdfunding for Hardware Startups. Last week, Crowd Supply’s CEO Josh Lifton gave our first public webinar on how crowdfunding and »
Best Practices for Delivering Your Product on Time
Greg Fisher is the founder of Hardware Massive and CEO of Berkeley Sourcing Group. A serial entrepreneur with over 10 years experience, he has helped more »
Crowd Supply-Side Economics: Here's the Money
After spending months developing a new product, launching a crowdfunding campaign, and seeing the pledges come in, creators are understandably anxious to get started actually manufacturing »
The Anarchist’s Organic Cookbook for Product Development
The way new products are designed, manufactured, paid for, and delivered is rapidly changing, driven by the same forces at play in the slow food, sharing »
Crowdfunding & Venture Capital for Hardware Startups
Doing a startup is like cooking - you can adapt along the way. Crowdfunding is like baking - you get one shot in the oven, and »
Short and Sweet Campaign Video Outline
Here's a basic, well-tested outline for a crowdfunding campaign video: Purely visual shot(s) to capture viewers' attention. About 10 seconds. For example, a montage of »
The One True Way to Set a Funding Goal
Setting your campaign’s funding goal is one of the biggest decisions you will make before your campaign launches. Getting it right can make all the »
Raise 40% More Funding with Zero Extra Effort
The Portland Press raised over $50,000 during their 30-day campaign on Crowd Supply. They did this by designing a great product and getting the word »
Friendly Advice When Starting a Company
We’re always speaking with creators looking to start a company based on their product idea, and the question of incorporation often comes up. Luckily, we’ »