One of the tech darlings to come out of the Great Recession of the late 2000s, Kickstarter popularized crowdfunding. Since its founding in 2009, its platform has helped to raise $5 billion, launching ...

Kickstarter, the crowd-funding website, began in 2009 with its first successful project, a small piece of art called Drawing for Dollars. The total amount raised was $35. Since then, site users have ...

Successfully funding a Kickstarter campaign can be a challenge. The hardest part, though, isn’t the fundraising—it’s what comes next. After years of seeing hardware Kickstarters flailing and failing ...

Kickstarter made it so that anybody with a great idea and a little know-how could make products and find customers. That's when the problems would start. It's one thing to make something for a few ...