Kickstarter

“And with tools like Shopify, Substack, MailChimp, Etsy, Patreon, Kickstarter, and all of these different creator platforms, the cost of failure in business today is really, really low.”

“He used that grant to launch the idea of Allbirds on Kickstarter, where he raised 119,000 dollars in five days.”

“In 2012, they launched Pebble on Kickstarter for the first time. They raised ten million dollars from 68,000 people around the world, and they went on over the next few years to sell two million watches And did over two hundred thirty million dollars in sales.”

“The average Kickstarter campaign gets 30% of their traffic from Kickstarter.”

“Kickstarter's raised seven billion dollars. Twenty-two million people have backed a project”

“They have found that, that people who do the one dollar reservation are 30 times more likely than just an email address you put in.”

“Kickstarter's three biggest, biggest categories are games, design, and technology.”

“It gets thirty million hits to the site a month.”

“There have been 581,000 projects that have been launched on Kickstarter, and 230 of them, 230,000 have been successfully funded, so it's a 40% hit rate.”

“March of 20, 22 was the biggest, most successful Kickstarter campaign of all time... It was an author. So there's this guy, Brandon Sanderson... He raised forty-one million dollars. 20, twenty million of it came in the first 72 hours”

“They have found that someone who puts down a dollar is Is 30 to 40 times more likely to ultimately back the Kickstarter campaign than say someone who just puts in their email address”

“The plunge is going live on Kickstarter in June. I know how many reservations we need in order to have, to raise 300,000 dollars on Kickstarter. It's like, basically, we need, ah, 400 reservations a week. Right now, for context, we're at 45.”

“Our goal is to raise 300,000 dollars on Kickstarter, which means we need 4000 people who have put down a dollar reservation by all measures relative to that.”

“Table games are the number one category on Kickstarter.”

“The average number of supporters for a successful Kickstarter project is 241 funders, far less than a thousand.”