Singapore — a tiny, city-state archipelago that’s been a leading hub of world finance for years — is now emerging as a leader in Asia in another field: Crowdfunding. From film and technology to art and community projects, Singaporean projects have raised over $134,000 in… read more
One year ago today, President Obama signed the JOBS Act — sweeping, bipartisan legislation that paved the way for equity-based crowdfunding. Though the SEC has yet to provide the regulations that will allow the JOBS Act’s provisions to go into effect, the Indiegogo team is… read more
With the sheer breadth of campaigns on Indiegogo today, there are probably fewer and fewer people who remember Indiegogo’s initial focus on film when it launched in 2008. Also, given crowdfunding’s nascence at the time, there are even fewer people still who were among those… read more
https://vimeo.com/60973711 Last month, Indiegogo CEO, Slava Rubin, joined a handful of campaigners in Las Vegas for the Downtown Project‘s February Catalyst Week, which brought together speakers from a variety of different backgrounds and industries to inspire the downtown community and vice versa. Slava’s talk —… read more
Gadgets have been replaced with guitars. Promotional t-shirts have been replaced with flannel and tank tops. Keynotes replaced with keyboards. Free beer replaced with free beer. SXSW Interactive is over, and the Music festival is just barely done with sound check. Amidst hundreds of bands… read more
Image courtesy SaulPaul Whether in tech, film, or music, Indiegogo campaigners past and present have had a strong presence at each and every day of this year’s SXSW festival so far (and will continue to as we move into the music portion of the… read more
Every week, we give team members at Indiegogo an opportunity to talk about the campaigns that have caught their attention. Here’s what we were talking about this week: Alice YOUR BOX CLUB Location: Toronto, Canada This campaign is awesome because it offers an organic product that… read more
On the eve of the final day of the 2013 SXSW Interactive festival, the Indiegogo team brought together the crowdfunding community, Indiegogo campaigners, and other tech-film-music rockstars for a night of pitching and partying — the result was one-thousand-and-one glassfuls of crowd-fun. The night kicked-off… read more
On Sunday, Indiegogo’s co-founder and CEO, Slava Rubin, took the big stage at the Austin Convention Center for his SXSW Speaker Session, “Go Fund Yourself.” After an introduction by colleague and “Employee 1,” Adam Chapnick, Slava kicked things off with the jarring and fantastically creative… read more
With 2013’s South By Southwest festival still in its infancy, Indiegogo team members have descended upon Austin, Texas to take the pulse on the tech, film, and music worlds while imparting a healthy dose of crowdfunding know-how. We have survived torrential thunderstorms, mountains of startup… read more