Crowdfunding

Funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and of alternative finance.

Interview with Narimasa Makino, CEO and Co-Founder of Makers Boot Camp

In advance of our next Asia Innovation Tour, we reached out to Narimasa Makino, CEO and Co-Founder of Makers Boot Camp based in Kyoto, Japan and a member of the expert community on the HWTrek platform. Makers Boot Camp is co-host of the Kyoto segment of the tour with HWTrek. Makino-san generously spared some time [...]

By |2016-10-11T23:59:19+00:00October 11th, 2016|Crowdfunding, Experts, Feature Story|Comments Off on Interview with Narimasa Makino, CEO and Co-Founder of Makers Boot Camp
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Makuake crowdfunding platform eases Japan market entry for global hardware companies

Our friends at Business Next published an article about Ryotaro Nakayama's (CEO of Makuake) appearance at an event while he recently visited Taiwan. Tokyo-based Makuake, a subsidiary of CyberAgent, is one of the top crowdfunding platforms in Japan. Unlike other sites, Makuake specializes in physical products from IoT devices to consumer electronics, fashion to food created [...]

By |2016-10-06T17:17:53+00:00October 6th, 2016|Crowdfunding, Feature Story|Comments Off on Makuake crowdfunding platform eases Japan market entry for global hardware companies
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Interview with Jesse Vincent, Co-founder and CTO of Keyboardio

We reached out to Jesse Vincent (Co-founder and CTO of Keyboardio) to learn more about the development of Model 01. They successfully raised more than US$650,000 on Kickstarter for Model O1 and it is available for pre-orders. Support them here. In August , HWTrek sponsored 30 hardware creators and accelerators to visit Taiwan, Beijing, and Shenzhen on Asia Tour 2015—and also in [...]

By |2016-02-11T23:22:40+00:00February 11th, 2016|Creators, Crowdfunding, Feature Story, IoT Case Studies, Lifestyle Technology|Comments Off on Interview with Jesse Vincent, Co-founder and CTO of Keyboardio
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Enter China’s smart device market with HWTrek and JD+ Program Spice

JD+ and HWTrek have partnered together to launch Program Spice to assist hardware startups – as well as small and medium-sized enterprises (SME / SMB) – with the knowledge, expertise, and tools necessary to successfully enter the Chinese consumer market for smart, connected devices. You can think of Program Spice as your Gateway to China's market. The program [...]

By |2015-09-08T22:39:20+00:00September 8th, 2015|Business, Crowdfunding|Comments Off on Enter China’s smart device market with HWTrek and JD+ Program Spice
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6 Questions: Adam Kell, Stower Co-founder

Last year, HWTrek sponsored 30 hardware startups and creators to visit Taiwan and Beijing on the Asia Innovation Tour 2014. We’re doing it again this August. We reached out to Adam Kell (Co-founder of Stower), a participant in the tour last year, to see what he’s been up to during the past year. Candle [...]

By |2015-07-15T22:01:48+00:00July 15th, 2015|Crowdfunding, IoT Case Studies, Lifestyle Technology|Comments Off on 6 Questions: Adam Kell, Stower Co-founder
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Meet Indiegogo + Demo Day, Taipei: Get a Chance to Pitch Your Hardware Project to Indiegogo!

We’re hosting a meetup and demo day with Indiegogo on Monday, June 8th. Ben Bateman (Director of Design & Technology categories) of Indiegogo and Liz Wald (VP, Technology & Design) are coming to Taiwan for a short visit to meet hardware technology creators and startups that might be interested in crowdfunding their projects as well [...]

By |2015-05-28T11:06:53+00:00May 28th, 2015|Crowdfunding, Events, Hardware|Comments Off on Meet Indiegogo + Demo Day, Taipei: Get a Chance to Pitch Your Hardware Project to Indiegogo!
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From Idea to Execution: Why Do We Need a Crowdfunding Platform for Hardware? Why HWTrek?

You have a product idea that you believe will change the world. It’s Hard. Here and again, the oft-spoken notion with regard to hardware is that it is hard. Keller Rinaudo of Romotive, the maker of Romo, told VentureBeat’s Dylan Tweney: “It is so hard to produce stuff at scale,” Rinaudo said. “You don’t appreciate Apple [...]

By |2023-12-15T14:16:23+00:00September 10th, 2013|Crowdfunding, Manufacturing|Comments Off on From Idea to Execution: Why Do We Need a Crowdfunding Platform for Hardware? Why HWTrek?
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