Kickstarter – a crowd-funding initiative designed to give those indie entrepreneurs out there who perhaps haven’t managed to secure funding from venture capitalists or banks, to put up their project for public perusal, announced that – of the 18,000 projects it made possible in 2012 – 17 managed to raise over $1 Million. One of those projects was Pebble, which managed to raise $10 Million in crowd-sourced funds after its – (at the time) – bare-bones concept for a connected bluetooth smartwatch caught the eye of potential backers around the world in mid-April, last year.

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