Entries by Joseph Hogue

How Crowdfunding Music can Make you a Star

I recently talked to Jamie Alimorad about the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to launch his new album with music legend Gino Vannelli. Jamie is building off the success of his first album a few years ago and is more than half way to his crowdfunding campaign goal of $20,000 to pay for recording, mixing and duplication […]

Equity Crowdfunding Real Estate Deals

Equity crowdfunding real estate has become a huge opportunity for both investors and developers. Today’s campaign review comes from another equity crowdfunding campaign on EquityNet. Vulcan Investments Global LLC has raised just over a million of its $4.1 million goal for two real estate development projects in Chile. I talked to the company’s Chief Executive […]

You’re Not Done! After the Crowdfunding Campaign

After the crowdfunding campaign ends is when the real work begins. Use the momentum and sense of community from a successful crowdfunding campaign to really kick your idea into high gear. So you’ve successfully crowdfunded your idea and the money is being dispersed by the platform. Congratulations, you’ve joined a small but growing list of […]

Using the Media for Documentary Crowdfunding

Today’s campaign review comes from the husband and wife communications team behind the documentary crowdfunding campaign, Magna Carta: Our Shared Legacy of Liberty. John and Brigitte have spent more than two decades working in Canada’s national media environment as radio and television broadcasters and columnists. This is their first crowdfunding campaign but great planning and […]

Raising $3 Million in Crowdfunding Games

Today’s crowdfunding campaign review comes from Cryptozoic Entertainment, crowdfunders of the Hex: Shards of Fate game in 2013. After raising $2.3 million on their prior campaign, the game-makers are cracking the crowdfunding code again with a board game version of Ghostbusters and have raised more than $3 million with the two games crowdfunding. Here on […]