A small desktop laser engraver has raised more than $3.3 million on Kickstarter on a goal of just $10,000. And the campaign still has 24 days left.

A Massachusetts manufacturer of wooden gaming tables is responsible for one of 2020's most successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns.

A write-able birch surface furniture idea from students in a crammed dorm room has won backing from Mark Cuban and launched a Kickstarter funding campaign.

A new rubberwood table features a topper that divides a kitchen table from a surface completely customized for board games.

The new Woodieful Chair is designed to be functional in adaptability, sustainable in quality and serves to inspire multiple uses to fit a person’s lifestyle. And the furniture project has reached its Kickstarter goal.

A portable stand up desk of Baltic birch and bamboo has brought a business boost to Rob's Custom Cabinetry in Superior, Wisconsin. Launched using two Kickstarter fundraising campaigns, the first netted $118,000 and allowed the two to buy a Laguna CNC router. The StandStand desk has generated $300,000 in added revenue for the cabinetry shop.

It's an indefinable quality, and its origins are not always predictable - but we can say innovation thrives in environments that don't thwart or stifle it. So while entrepreneurs may have an edge in originating an idea - no one to quash a it - they may also suffer long odds against success, bowing to constraints on resources.