In the earliest days of crowdsourcing, any cool-sounding idea that got enough people talking had a good chance of getting funded. But in 2014, funders are more discriminating, not to mention ...

Zach Braff. Nine-year-olds. Penny Arcade. It doesn’t matter who has a Kickstarter out there… somebody is angry about it. But how angry should you actually be? Here’s a useful guide. Actually, it ...

The proliferation of crowd-funding sites has raised new issues around the ethics of online fundraising. Probably the best-known of these sites, Kickstarter, posted a statement on its blog Friday ...

The team behind the creative crowdfunding site Kickstarter has explained why it didn’t cancel a project offering backers a step-by-step guide to seducing women. The company said that when the page was ...