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82% of Tilt crowdfunding campaigns succeed, raising an average of 192%
“82% of tilts are successful, so that's you're very different than most crowdfunding campaigns where the majority don't reach their goal. The vast majority exceed their goal, and actually you know, if you have a successful tilt on our platform or a successful c…”
Reading blogs creates an illusion of productivity but is passive consumption
“I think blogs, they give you this, like it feels productive, but it's consumption, like watching TV. You feel like you learned something in little tidbits”
Crowdfunding will achieve mass market adoption through simpler second-generation tools
“And our hypothesis is, is that crowdfunding will have a very similar narrative arc to blogging to where, you know, 1213 years ago, blogging was this thing that had a lot of hand waving, had a lot of it was on the tips of you know, journalist tongues of the, yo…”
Going public resets a startup's progress to zero for the founders
“Any company that goes public, it's, it, for the founders, the entrepreneurs, the leaders in that company, for the entire company, it's kind of like it all starts over again. It resets to zero. Now you've got to prove the world that prove the world wrong all ov…”