https://www.KickStarted.org/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:14:34 +0000 MyBB https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-8.html Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:16:02 -0600 Britta]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-8.html https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-7.html Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:14:19 -0600 Britta]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-7.html
Seriously. If you think you are going to get rich doing your Kickstarter project, hire a friend who has some accounting skills to do the math.

Even Scott Wilson did not make much money off of his Kickstarter project. But both of us did get our businesses kickstarted to one day be financially stable and make some profit.

Just relax, know you are about to take many many many big risks, and practice in the mirror to get a good knowing smirk. ]]>
Seriously. If you think you are going to get rich doing your Kickstarter project, hire a friend who has some accounting skills to do the math.

Even Scott Wilson did not make much money off of his Kickstarter project. But both of us did get our businesses kickstarted to one day be financially stable and make some profit.

Just relax, know you are about to take many many many big risks, and practice in the mirror to get a good knowing smirk. ]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-6.html Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:09:04 -0600 Britta]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-6.html
I have never been good at actually doing blog posts and getting stuff up on the web, even if I am documenting as I go along. I get bogged down in editing and it takes me forever. But it's kind of a lame excuse.

It is really important to my backers that they hear from me. They went out of their way to help get our windowfarms out there.

There were plenty of projects where people were really late and their backers seemed not to care because they told them in detail what was going on all along the way. The backers are in it for the story.

We did not do many updates until we had bad news-- that we were going to be late. For the most part, our backers understood, but some of them were disappointed that we had not communicated, and others were straight up pissed off.

We made a policy to just give refunds to anyone who was really angry or had had some misunderstanding about what they were getting into. We took the hit on the fact that we still had to pay the 7% to Kickstarter/Amazon for their money. But it just seemed the right thing to do. We made mistakes and we owned up to them and got back to a clean slate.

Take away: if you are not a good web publisher, figure out at the beginning what it is going to take to get updates out frequently. Hire a video editor for a few hours a month to publish two updates. That's what I'd do if I had it all to do over again.

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I have never been good at actually doing blog posts and getting stuff up on the web, even if I am documenting as I go along. I get bogged down in editing and it takes me forever. But it's kind of a lame excuse.

It is really important to my backers that they hear from me. They went out of their way to help get our windowfarms out there.

There were plenty of projects where people were really late and their backers seemed not to care because they told them in detail what was going on all along the way. The backers are in it for the story.

We did not do many updates until we had bad news-- that we were going to be late. For the most part, our backers understood, but some of them were disappointed that we had not communicated, and others were straight up pissed off.

We made a policy to just give refunds to anyone who was really angry or had had some misunderstanding about what they were getting into. We took the hit on the fact that we still had to pay the 7% to Kickstarter/Amazon for their money. But it just seemed the right thing to do. We made mistakes and we owned up to them and got back to a clean slate.

Take away: if you are not a good web publisher, figure out at the beginning what it is going to take to get updates out frequently. Hire a video editor for a few hours a month to publish two updates. That's what I'd do if I had it all to do over again.

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I was told that backers who selected multiple rewards were "not supported." Figuring out who to send what for these people was a pain in the @$$ even with a small team helping me out. Frankly, it made us look bad or disorganized when it more a feature of Kickstarter that I consider to be "clunky." ]]>
I was told that backers who selected multiple rewards were "not supported." Figuring out who to send what for these people was a pain in the @$$ even with a small team helping me out. Frankly, it made us look bad or disorganized when it more a feature of Kickstarter that I consider to be "clunky." ]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-4.html Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:13:50 -0600 Forrest]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-4.html https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-3.html Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:54:01 -0600 Forrest]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-3.html https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-2.html Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:29:33 -0700 Matt]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-2.html Welcome to KickStarted.org. Here's the place to find out how best to navigate your crowdfunding projects from concept to achievement. This is the central meeting place for all those wayward souls who have a dream and are just gutsy enough to try to make it happen. Sharing your experience and learning from others will help it become less gutsy, and more optimized with much better chances of success.

Feel free to ask any question at all, and to chime in when you've got something to offer. Crowdfunding is a nascent concept to most of us regular people and it can feel like the wild frontier out there. By sharing with the community we can help each other understand it better, and we'll also be helping to define the path crowdfunding takes in the future!

And above all, we will help ordinary people create the extraordinary!]]> Welcome to KickStarted.org. Here's the place to find out how best to navigate your crowdfunding projects from concept to achievement. This is the central meeting place for all those wayward souls who have a dream and are just gutsy enough to try to make it happen. Sharing your experience and learning from others will help it become less gutsy, and more optimized with much better chances of success.

Feel free to ask any question at all, and to chime in when you've got something to offer. Crowdfunding is a nascent concept to most of us regular people and it can feel like the wild frontier out there. By sharing with the community we can help each other understand it better, and we'll also be helping to define the path crowdfunding takes in the future!

And above all, we will help ordinary people create the extraordinary!]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-1.html Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:53:36 -0700 Britta]]> https://www.KickStarted.org/thread-1.html