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Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. They operates by a system of threshold pledges, in which individuals can promise to donate any sum of money but...
Startups #151 with Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter in NYC If you're a filmmaker, photographer, actor, chef or just about any other creative type, you've no doubt heard about the...
Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler kicked off things at the Engadget Expand conference in San Francisco this week with a keynote that traced the history of the crowdfunding platform and reviewed a few "greatest hits" along the way.
Some highlights from the first part of the day of PSFK's fifth annual conference are as follows: The first panel of the day featured a one-on-one talk with the founder of Kickstarter,...
Kickstarter's Yancey Strickler clarifies that about 84% of the money pledged is collected so not all the nearly $20 million pledged will be collected though many great projects were funded.
As Yancey Strickler explained, the milestone is “good” in the sense that it means that Kickstarter may now reach a point where it will funnel as much money to the arts as the federal agency...
Kickstarter cofounder Yancey Strickler just announced a live stats page that will let anyone see the numbers surrounding different projects. The page will display information like total dollars...
Several days ago, Dan Misener unveiled the Kickback Machine, a website that shows both successful and unsuccessful Kickstarter campaigns. The site contains all campaigns that have been posted since mid-June – just over 4,500.
Kickstarter hopes that the UK operation will do the same for inventors and developers here. Unfortunately Yancey Strickler, the cofounder and head of Community at Kickstarter was unable to make the...
Kickstarter presented the following charts on their second birthday (all data represents activity between April 28, 2009 - April 27, 2011): Dollars Pledged by Month Projects Launched by Month...
Ten thousand successful projects is a big milestone. Watching projects from every corner of the creative spectrum come to life has been a wonderful thing, and to see what they've...
But more than the perks, Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler says that crowdfunding taps into people’s inner philanthropist. People want to be a part of new ideas even if they might lack...
Ella Morton interviews Kickstarter Co-Founders Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen about their NYC based company that helps people raise money to fund their creative projects.
Living in an era of unprecedented connectivity, crowdfunding represents a new way for creators, makers, entrepreneurs and social activists to realize their dreams. Moreover, the collaboration...
To celebrate, they’d like to take a closer look at Kickstarter's first million backers. Interestingly the milestones of 1,000,000 backers and $100,000,000 pledged came within 48 hours of one...
In 2011 nearly 12,000 projects were financed through contributions by 960,000 unique donors with a median pledge of $25. Kickstarter's Medici, with the handle "H.T.", supported 724...
Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler says Double Fine's fundraising success "is really going to make game publishers think about what the impact could be of going directly to their...
It was big news when a Kickstarter project broke the $1 million dollar mark for the first time on February 9th. More amazingly, two projects shattered that record in the same day. Now another...
Both Order of The Stick and Double Fine Adventures, which has now passed the $2 million mark on Kickstarter, are projects from creators who spent years building up their fanbases. It has led to...
From the article: One of the company’s three co-founders, Yancey Strickler, said that Kickstarter is on track to distribute over $150 million dollars to its users’ projects in 2012, or...
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