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Design SHIFT Introduces World's Most Secure Personal PC ORWL is a secure PC (photo courtesy of Design SHIFT) Are you looking to secure your data? ORWL (pronounced Orwell) designed by Design SHIFT is a palm sized secure PC and has features something that the CIA or NSA would kill for, eh I mean drool for. This comes from Design SHIFT's learning in the banking industry when they designed Clover  point of sale system. The case is physically protected against unwanted intrusion and provides NFC key for power up so that unauthorized users can't use the system - similar to modern car key systems. ORWL is a current active project on Crowd Supply . Check out Daniel Nelson's interview about what ORWL is all about.

Crowdfunding Help Comes in Many Sizes and Platforms Crowdfunding in a Crowded Place (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Just like the app market, the major crowdfunding platforms are over-saturated. Though, c rowdfunding has changed the way were invest and micro-investing is the new stock certificate, crowdfunding today does have its issues - Promotion,  Fraud , Order fulfillment to name a few.  Is traditional crowdfunding broken? Some think so. We list some alternatives or some different ways to go about funding your project. We talk with Sjoerd Geurts of Gambitious , who has an investment portal for Indie gamer developers, Nick Tommarello of WeFunder who does equity crowdfunding, Josh Lifton of Crowd Supply who manages development to fulfillment platform and lastly DMM-make who helps promote curated products via standard crowdfunding platforms and a provides a post-crowdfunding fulfillment store. These new platforms and their founders are different - humble, focu...

Crowd funding has changed the way were invest. Micro-investing is the new stock certificate. There are a lot of alternatives out there. However, crowd funding does have its issues - Fraud , delivery delays, and order fulfillment itself are a few. So, it was refreshing to talk to Josh Lifton , co-founder of Crowd Supply . Crowd Supply manages the whole spectrum - from concept to sales. In fact, they call it Product Development as a Platform. Watch Josh as he discusses Crowd Supply and their uniqueness.