![]() ![]() The Death and Life of Great American Cities, These are values that Kickstarter is committed to growing, and The Creative Independent supports with distinction.įuture Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age ![]() The site supports the creative community, provides resources and educational material for creative people, and elevates the work of artists and creators. Kickstarter is listed in the site’s footer as its publisher, but otherwise derives no direct benefit.īecause The Creative Independent is a value-creating project according to the commitments in Kickstarter’s PBC charter. And yet there’s no Kickstarter logo anywhere. The Creative Independent has no advertising, charges nothing for its content, and has a full-time staff. A PBC is a for-profit company that’s legally committed to balancing shareholder interests with producing a positive benefit for society. ![]() It was this same independent spirit that led Kickstarter to become a public benefit corporation (PBC). Kickstarter doesn’t even have a landlord. A bit more than one hundred people work out of Kickstarter’s office, an old pencil factory in Brooklyn that the company bought years ago. Kickstarter began operating profitably in its fourteenth month in business. Unlike Silicon Valley companies burning through piles of cash, we stayed small and lived within our means. We would do what was best for Kickstarter’s mission, not use it to do what was best for us. We said publicly that we’d never sell the company or take it public. All these projects began as ideas just like Kickstarter itself.ĭuring Kickstarter’s first year, I reviewed nearly every project when it launched. Hundreds of restaurants, movie theaters, galleries, and other public spaces are open today thanks to their backers and the platform. Pebble invented smartwatches with its string of Kickstarter projects. So did Oculus Rift, which was a prototype in a garage when its Kickstarter launched. The tabletop game Cards Against Humanity started as a Kickstarter project backed by several hundred people. Many Kickstarter projects underwent a similar transition from new and unproven idea to mainstream acceptance. Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous WorldĬapital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, The brass at Kickstarter feels that even if what you’re really doing is starting a company, and the product in your campaign is its genesis, Kickstarter wants the campaign to be about the product, not the company. It’s kind of a fuzzy line,” Kickstarter cofounder Yancey Strickler has acknowledged. “The idea of a creative project is a made-up one. Plenty of companies have been born because Kickstarter funding helped them produce their first gadget, or game, or clock, or smooth stones that control the temperature of your cup of coffee (this last was a real Kickstarter, called Coffee Joulies). Early in 2012, Kickstarter announced that it expected to fund creative projects to the tune of $150 million for the year, a slightly larger sum than the 2012 fiscal year budget for the National Endowment for the Arts. The 2012 Sundance Film Festival, a major showcase for independent films, featured seventeen movies that had received Kickstarter funding, amounting to 10 percent of the festival’s lineup. ![]() 3 publisher of indie graphic novels in the United States, in terms of the number of book projects it funded. By 2011, Publishers Weekly magazine calculated that Kickstarter had become the No. IT’S EASY TO HEAR THE TALES of Kickstarter hauls so gargantuan that your eyes light up like silver dollars while the cash-register sound from Pink Floyd’s song “Money” plays in your head.īorn as a so-crazy-it-just-might-work notion, Kickstarter was quickly becoming a breeding ground to nurture more such outlandish ideas.īut even then, Kickstarter had barely shifted into second gear. As one Kickstarter campaign creator might say: there’s no time like the Present. So what are you waiting for? Let’s get this dance party started. Most of the rest of the stuff that happens on Kickstarter can be described using normal, everyday English, and we don’t anticipate any confusion. Hey, it’s a flexible word, and the author and publisher of this book don’t have to pay a royalty every time we use it, so there you go. People who are hip about all things Kickstarter occasionally refer to a campaign as, simply, “a Kickstarter.” A person who launches a campaign may also be called “a Kickstarter.” So, yeah, a Kickstarter can launch a Kickstarter on Kickstarter. The Kickstarter Handbook: Real-Life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs ![]()
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