Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt may not agree on much, but they do see eye to eye on back pain. Yang and Schmidt, through his investment fund Innovation Endeavors, are joining with Seattle venture capital firm...
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The LUMO BodyTech wearable sensor to track posture.
Eric Schmidt, Jerry Yang Back Posture Gadget in $5M Round
Photograph by Fragments from Olympus
One of the most successful campaigns on Indiegogo aimed to raise money to buy back Nikola Tesla's old laboratory.
Crowd-Funding Site Indiegogo Is Going International
In many parts of the Eurozone, now is not the best time for an entrepreneur to go to the bank and expect to skip away with a loan. But a growing alternative for some Europeans could be crowd-funding websites, which...
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Why Technophiles Snuggled Up to the Ostrich Pillow
The Ostrich Pillow, a cloth helmet for helping people nap at their desks, has more in common with the Snuggie than with a gadget like the iPhone. Yet, technophiles have been inexplicably drawn to it. The pillow hat, with holes...
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Mark Collins, left, and Jason Giddings agreed to a $3 million investment on a glacier in the Swiss Alps.
After Raising Money on Kickstarter, Side Project Lands Another $3 Million
(Updates to add comment from Kickstarter in last graph.) When Jason Giddings posted his idea on Kickstarter in November to build a glass keyboard and mouse controlled by multi-touch gestures similar to the iPad, he didn’t even have a name for it. The...
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Courtesy OpenVizsla via Kickstarter
OpenVizsla is named after Vizsla dogs, which are known for their ability to be trained and sniff.
After Getting Funded, Some Kickstarter Projects Stall
Kickstarter began in 2009 as a way for entrepreneurs to raise money to get projects off the ground. Though the company’s fundraising platform has been a success, many projects have not. More than a million backers have given $274 million...
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Pebble's new watch is supposed to display messages from your smartphone.
Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter
When it comes to the road to success in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky was definitely on the right path. His idea for creating a watch that can display messages from your smartphone was embraced by Y Combinator, the prestigious business...
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