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Udashkin: Crowdfunding platforms generate sales but fail to build lasting brands
“It's starting to become, first of all, very, very difficult to build a brand off of those platforms. I think they're good at generating a certain level of sales, but then you never actually build, you know, a brand or any type of marketing funnel or really fig…”
John Frankel Argues Crowdfunding Is Not a Winner-Take-All Market
“It's not necessarily a winner-take-all space. You know, I've heard people describe Kickstarter as becoming the Friendstoper space, but I'm not really seduced by that argument. I think that there's room for more than one platform, and they, their models really …”
Rojas: Easy Kickstarter crowdfunding hurts hardware startups' operational discipline
“One of the things about when you're building, say, raising money for hardware on Kickstarter, for example, is that You can raise money so easily for if you lay out a compelling product vision that it actually takes away some of the constraints that would force…”
Salguero: ButcherBox launched with $215K raised on Kickstarter
“We started with a Kickstarter campaign where we raised 215,000 dollars in pre-orders”
GoldieBlox scrapped its professional launch video to reshoot in Sterling's apartment
“We actually ended up scrapping that entire video moments before we were supposed to launch and reshooting it on my living room floor in my apartment so that I could be comfortable.”
Lumi co-founders raised $13,000 on Kickstarter in 2009
“The first company that we started was a product that we launched on Kickstarter while we were still in school studying industrial design. So back in 2009, when Kickstarter was just months old instead of years old, we posted a project that got funded for a whop…”