After failing to convince venture capitalists to fund Pebble, the Palo Alto start-up looked for $100,000 in seed money from the crowd funding platform Kickstarter. They got $10.3 million. (Feb. 28)
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After failing to convince venture capitalists to fund Pebble, the Palo Alto start-up looked for $100,000 in seed money from the crowd funding platform Kickstarter. They got $10.3 million. (Feb. 28)
