Kickstarting your ideas: A look at crowdfunding
Rachel Bridgewater & Anne-Marie Deitering
Online Northwest 2013
Further reading:
Overview
Mollick, Ethan R., “The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Determinants of Success and Failure” (July 25, 2012).
Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2088298
2012: The year that crowdfunding was Kickstarted into the mainstream
A beginner’s guide to crowdfunding (via Rolling Stone)
25 Kickstarter tips for students (via Edudemic)
Statistics
A look back at Indiegogo’s successful year in crowdfunding(via Mashable)
Planning & the pitch
7 things to consider BEFORE you launch your kickstarter project (via Nathaniel Hansen)
Fund your dream with the perfect Kickstarter pitch (via Wired)
Budget & maintenance
Pricing tiers: Kickstartup (via Craig Mod) – a little old, but still useful
Email pitches: How to pitch film’s crowdfunding campaign to bloggers the right way (via theBlackandBlue)
Kickstarter’s sting in the tail: Tax (via Forbes)
How much does crowdfunding cost musicians (via NPR)
Issues
Kickstarter Controversy! Should Big Name Developers Get Involved?
Amanda Palmer’s Accidental Experiment with Real Communism
Who’s the Shop Steward on Your Kickstarter (via The Baffler)
Future Issues
Fraud: Kickstarter: Countdown to scam city? (via MetaFilter)
Kickstarter Fatigue: We’re done with Kickstarter (via Gizmodo)
Projects
Wired Design Kickstarter of the Week
The Game of Books: A Discovery Game for Libraries
Santa Cruz Public Library Inside Out
Teaching teachers to teach Vonnegut
Street books: A bicycle-powered library for people outside
Seek: A game for information literacy instruction
Save the Atwater Elementary School Library
So you want to be a librarian, by Lauren Pressley (2009)
Your Kickstarter Sucks (via Tumblr)
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