Kickstarter has quickly become one of the premier crowdfunding platforms on the internet. For many different industries, it is a place where ideas once considered impossible to become reality in major ...

The Onion, as only The Onion can, exposed the cesspool of faux-inventions of Kickstarter by calling the folks who start Kickstarter projects, Internet criminals who “bilk friends and families out of ...

In what is best described as a slow-motion bank robbery, it appears that a Kickstarter scam is about to walk away with over $500,000. The iFind, developed by WeTag, purports to be a battery-free ...

Of course this doesn’t apply to the fundraising efforts we’ve posted about here or those of people I know, but I’m pretty sure The Onion is right about all the other Kickstarters.

In early December 2021, employees at the crowdfunding startup Kickstarter got news of a windfall: An investor group wanted to buy some of their shares. The news came as a surprise. While the workers ...