crowdfunding

Unlike the U.K., America’s tea-drinking habits may never overload our electrical grid, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have room in our lives for an electric tea kettle.

Kickstarter has become one of my go-to sources for coming up with new and unique gift ideas for hard-to-shop for friends and family.

For older generations, millennials can be tricky to understand, manage and parent. For millennials, finding happiness in the labyrinth of the adult world can be a real challenge. Author Chris Butsch aims to solve both problems.

Did you know 60% of women say their sleep environment keeps them awake more than their partners, and more than 1 in 4 couples sleep in separate beds because of sleep differences?

There are two types of business travelers in this world: those who wear their blazers on the plane and those who opt to stuff it in their luggage.

Temperatures are dropping, tropical storms are brewing and TV schedules are filled with football, but there’s really just one telltale sign that summer is over: school buses once again fill our city’s streets.

A few months ago I wrote about how BrewDog, a successful Scottish brewery founded in 2007, was planning to raise $25 million to help bring its ales to America.

Every entrepreneur’s worst nightmare is to spend months or years working on a product only to have it launch to crickets.

Imagine a world where instead of being illuminated by electric streetlights, our neighborhoods were lit up at night by genetically engineered “glowing plants.” That is the world Antony Evans is hoping to create.

After watching the fifth runaway umbrella tumbling down Pawleys Island beach on July 4th, I thought to myself, “Why hasn’t someone launched a Kickstarter for a better beach umbrella design?”

When equity crowdfunding opened for business a few weeks ago, I mentioned my first investment in the new asset class was with Cleveland Whiskey, an innovative whiskey distillery that can age a batch of whiskey in a day (compared to the 8-12 year norm).

It’s been over 80 years since normal Americans could invest in privately held startups. It’s also been over four years since the laws intended to change that fact were signed by President Obama.

Kickstarter is a place for bringing new ideas to life, but with large sums of money changing hands on the platform every day, it has become a prime target for a deceptive breed of entrepreneurs.

It is common practice in the auto industry to take good faith deposits from customers wanting to get the latest and greatest models as soon as they roll off the assembly line, but what Tesla is doing for their Model 3 launch is unprecedented.

When over 60,000 people pledged over $13 million to the Coolest Cooler Kickstarter campaign in the fall of 2014, they expected they would be sipping on freshly blended beachside margaritas by the spring of 2015.