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Kickstarter

6 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Tim Schafer · said 46 times in 18 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Kieran Snyder (8), Sonal Chokshi (5), Mike Hearn (5), Chris Dixon (5), Fred Benenson (4), Sakundala Pantharatna (2), Roman Mars (2), Tim Schafer (1)

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Everything said about Kickstarter, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Schafer: Double Fine Set Kickstarter Record For Fastest $2 Million Raised
“We had like the most, most backers. Most backers. It was like fastest two million bucks.”
Tim Schafer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:22 a16z Podcast | Tech Trends Changing Gaming
Jan 2, 2019
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Snyder: Kickstarter campaigns succeed when formatted like a "ransom note"
“You want it to look like a ransom note, so you want to mix and match types. You want lots and lots of headings.”
Kieran Snyder Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:48 a16z Podcast | It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Snyder: Longer project descriptions perform better on Kickstarter
“Longer is better where Kickstarter is is concerned kind of counterintuitive.”
Kieran Snyder Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:29 a16z Podcast | It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Snyder: Textio predicted Kickstarter fundraising success with over 90% accuracy
“We got over 90% predictive on minute zero of a project as to whether it was going to hit its fundraising goal based solely on things like how long is the text and what kind of fonts are you using and how many headings do you have.”
Kieran Snyder Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:59 a16z Podcast | It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
Jan 2, 2019
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Snyder: Kickstarter success depends on text structure rather than idea quality
“The quality of your idea doesn't matter just looking at the content aspects we could predict.”
Kieran Snyder Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:12 a16z Podcast | It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It -- When Language Meets Big Data
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Andreessen: Crowdfunding platforms stemmed from Obama 2008 campaign fundraising innovations
“A lot of what is now happening with crowdfunding and Kickstarter and CrowdTilt and all these things is kind of, in a lot of ways, sort of derivations of what happened in the Obama campaign.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 42:40 a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
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