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...
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...
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....