Sep 25, 2021 | Crowdfunding, Cycling, Fitwins Virtual Challenge, Indoor Cycling
For some months now, I have been using the Fitwins Fitness App to log my Virtual Miles. The creators would like to improve the App, by adding new features, including Street View to the Google Maps. To fund this, they are looking at crowdfunding – using the Crowdfunder...
Apr 2, 2020 | Crowd Funding, Crowdfunding, Kickstarter
3 Unsuccessful Kickstarter Projects: Only approx 35% of projects are successfully funded, and go on to full delivery. Here are three projects that I backed, but they did not reach the amount required to go forward. Fortunately, if the amount pledged does not reach the...
Oct 2, 2018 | Crowd Funding, Crowdfunding, Fund Raising, Kickstarter
In Feb 2012 a dock made for the iPhone designed by Casey Hopkins and became the first Kickstarter project to exceed one million dollars in pledges. A few hours later, a new adventure game project started by computer game developers, Double Fine Productions, reached...
Dec 11, 2017 | Crowdfunding, Raising Finance
Crowdfunding is a way for people, businesses and charities to raise finance. It works by individuals or organisations, investing or donating to Crowdfunded Projects in return for a potential profit or reward. Investing in this way can be very risky. The Golden Rule...
Feb 20, 2017 | Crowdfunding, Cycling, Road Bikes, Road Cycling, Road Racing, SpeedX
On a wet Thursday at the back end of January 2017, there was a heavy pounding on the front door… with a very wet TNT driver standing there trying to deliver a very large box…! My new bike had arrived…. I unboxed it and looked it over… it was fantastic… awesome…...
May 20, 2016 | Crowdfunding, Cycling, SpeedX
This short article was first written in May 2016 about the Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and was written as the Admin of the SpeedX Riders Facebook Group. The SpeedX Leopard bikes were delayed, and some backers were becoming very impatient....
