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Title:

Funding Your Projects from the Crowd

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Organizer:
Perry Chen, Kickstarter
Description:
Crowdfunding inverts everything that is wrong with traditional funding by breaking down the barrier between creators and audiences, and turning fundraising into a interactive campaign. This panel brings together several crowdfunding startups to explain different approaches to raising money from the audience for bloggers, podcasters, programmers, musicians, and more.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is crowdfunding?
  2. How can I raise money from my fans?
  3. How much money is it possible to raise?
  4. What different tools can assist in fundraising?
  5. What are the benefits of skipping traditional publishers?
  6. How much time will it take?
  7. Are there any risks to asking fans for money?
  8. What different tools are available for fundraising?
  9. How do I craft rewards that will be appealing to my audience?
  10. What genres of creative projects work well for this approach, and which don't?
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Community / Online Community, Funding / VC
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
on 17/8/09
I've been tracking Kickstarter for a while now and was lucky enough to be given beta access. I would love to see where this business model is at 6 months from now. I'm most interested in number 7. Since we haven't seen a lot of this, we also have seen lawsuits (and past rulings) around it.
on 18/8/09
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on 18/8/09
Apparently SXSW doesn't like the heart symbol...

Anyways, what I tried to comment was:

I *heart* Kickstarter :)
on 19/8/09
Looking forward to this.
on 19/8/09
Hope you get this one.
on 20/8/09
This is gonna be good. Also interested in thinking/talking about the difference between crowdfunding your own project and crowdfunding a commission -- the idea of being a "meta-patron" (just made that up) the way Andy was with Kind of Bloop.
on 21/8/09
thumbs up!
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