crowdfunding

As many high school students wait on pins and needles to see if they got into the college of their choosing, others are far more anxious about finding a way to pay for that schooling. To avoid the multi-decade financial burden of student loans, soon-to-matriculate seniors are flocking to crowdfunding as an alternative financing solution for their studies.

“Variety is the spice of life,” they say.

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?

When Alice Min Shoo Chun and Stacy Kelly created SolarPuff, they knew their solar-powered LED lights would be perfect for disaster-relief aid.

There’s a new toy for sale on Kickstarter that wants you to click it, flip it, rub it, roll it, spin it and glide it.

While nobody enjoys cramming themselves into coach, onboard tensions often escalate when cruising altitudes are reached and seats start reclining.

Back-to-school shopping was never my favorite summer activity as a child, but a slight smile crept across my face whenever my parents let me pick out a new backpack.

Although Keurig coffee systems still dominate many kitchen countertops, it seems their popularity is on the decline.

Even though it has saved me hundreds of dollars in energy costs, my favorite feature of the Nest thermostat is the ability to control my home’s temperature from my phone during weekend-long Netflix binges.

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.

Over the last two and a half years, I’ve shared over 10,000 words (100 words x 100+ posts) about interesting crowdfunding campaigns with readers of The 100 eNewsletters.

No matter how many delicious options there may be for a quick lunch near your office, we all know that eating out every day can quickly inflate our waistlines while simultaneously deflating our wallets.

2016 is shaping up to be a watershed year for crowdfunding. Kickstarter has already helped creators raise over $2 billion…