It’s kind of a fuzzy line,” Kickstarter cofounder Yancey Strickler has acknowledged. “The idea of a creative project is a made-up one. Plenty of companies have been born because Kickstarter funding helped them produce their first gadget, or game, or clock, or smooth stones that control the temperature of your cup of coffee (this last was a real Kickstarter, called Coffee Joulies). ![]() Early in 2012, Kickstarter announced that it expected to fund creative projects to the tune of $150 million for the year, a slightly larger sum than the 2012 fiscal year budget for the National Endowment for the Arts. The 2012 Sundance Film Festival, a major showcase for independent films, featured seventeen movies that had received Kickstarter funding, amounting to 10 percent of the festival’s lineup. 3 publisher of indie graphic novels in the United States, in terms of the number of book projects it funded. By 2011, Publishers Weekly magazine calculated that Kickstarter had become the No. IT’S EASY TO HEAR THE TALES of Kickstarter hauls so gargantuan that your eyes light up like silver dollars while the cash-register sound from Pink Floyd’s song “Money” plays in your head.īorn as a so-crazy-it-just-might-work notion, Kickstarter was quickly becoming a breeding ground to nurture more such outlandish ideas.īut even then, Kickstarter had barely shifted into second gear. As one Kickstarter campaign creator might say: there’s no time like the Present. ![]() So what are you waiting for? Let’s get this dance party started. Most of the rest of the stuff that happens on Kickstarter can be described using normal, everyday English, and we don’t anticipate any confusion. Hey, it’s a flexible word, and the author and publisher of this book don’t have to pay a royalty every time we use it, so there you go. People who are hip about all things Kickstarter occasionally refer to a campaign as, simply, “a Kickstarter.” A person who launches a campaign may also be called “a Kickstarter.” So, yeah, a Kickstarter can launch a Kickstarter on Kickstarter. The Kickstarter Handbook: Real-Life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs
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