User:Czar/k/drafts/Kickstarter

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	A brief history of Kickstarter, company video on the first five years

Model[edit]

Through Kickstarter's online platform, creators fundraise from an Internet audience and offer rewards for their support. For example, a film project might feature several reward tiers based on amount pledged: a "thank you" credit in the film, a digital download, a work of art, or a personal experience with the filmmakers. Project campaigns run for a set period of time, generally a month, and money is only exchanged if the project had met or exceeded its all-or-nothing funding goal. Kickstarter collects a five percent fee from the project's total.^[1]

In the early 2010s, commentators suggested this model was the future of the media and finance industries.^[1]

History[edit]

As of 2012, the company had 55 employees and had revenue of $14 million in project fees from $274 million raised in projects.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Chafkin, Max (March 18, 2013). "True To Its Roots: Why Kickstarter Won't Sell". Fast Company. Retrieved November 20, 2017.

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Further reading[edit]

Boudway, Ira (May 26, 2011). "Kickstarter: Financing Small Movies Online". Bloomberg.com.
Brustein, Joshua (June 17, 2016). "Kickstarter Just Did Something Tech Startups Never Do: It Paid a Dividend". Bloomberg.com.
Cohen, Rick (September 25, 2015). "Kickstarter Becomes a Public Benefit Corporation, So What?". Nonprofit Quarterly. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
Dredge, Stuart (April 17, 2014). "Kickstarter's biggest hits - why crowdfunding now sets the trends". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
Dredge, Stuart (February 14, 2013). "Kickstarter? There's now an official iPhone app for that". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
F., G. (May 14, 2013). "Is it unfair for famous people to use Kickstarter?". The Economist. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
F., G. (June 6, 2014). "Kickstarter is a store, after all". The Economist. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
Flanagan, Andrew (March 17, 2016). "Kickstarter Saves 'Future Fan Club' Drip on the Eve of Its Closure, Marking Its First Acquisition". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
Gannes, Liz (November 5, 2012). "Kickstarter CEO: No IPO for Us, and No Equity Crowdfunding Either". AllThingsD. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
Gannes, Liz (May 9, 2013). "Kickstarter: We Don't Have Anything Against Celebrity Projects (cc: Zach Braff)". AllThingsD. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
Garber, Megan (June 29, 2013). "Kickstarters of Yore: Mozart, Lady Liberty, Alexander Pope". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825.
Gera, Emily (June 27, 2012). "Why Kickstarter 'can't' and won't protect backers once a project is funded". Polygon. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
Ingram, Mathew (July 24, 2012). "Could Kickstarter Crowdfund Journalism?". Bloomberg.com.
Isaac, Mike; Gelles, David (September 20, 2015). "Kickstarter Focuses Its Mission on Altruism Over Profit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Kafka, Peter (March 17, 2011). "Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowdsourced Funding Start-Up Has Funding, Too". AllThingsD. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (April 30, 2015). "ZPM Espresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Luckerson, Victor (December 7, 2015). "Here's How Many Kickstarter Projects End Up Failing". Time. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
Mollick, Ethan R. (June 26, 2013). The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: An Exploratory Study. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network.
Mollick, Ethan R. (July 11, 2016). Containing Multitudes: The Many Impacts of Kickstarter Funding. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network.
Newton, Casey (February 15, 2014). "Kickstarter hacked, with data stolen for an unknown number of customers". The Verge. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
Popper, Ben (November 15, 2017). "Exclusive: Kickstarter launches its first new product in 9 years". The Verge. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
Rey, Jason Del (February 15, 2014). "Kickstarter Says It Was Hacked (Updated)". Recode. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
Rey, Jason Del (January 6, 2015). "Kickstarter Ditches Amazon Payments for Stripe". Recode. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
Roeder, Oliver (August 18, 2015). "Crowdfunding Is Driving A $196 Million Board Game Renaissance". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
Ruiz, Rebecca R. (June 11, 2015). "F.T.C. Reaches Settlement in a Kickstarter Scheme". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Shaw, Lucas (October 2, 2012). "Kickstarter Co-Founder Yancey Strickler: 'We Don't Care About Money'". TheWrap. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
Simon, Ruth; Brynildsen, Erik (March 31, 2016). "Who Benefits From Crowdfunding?". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660.
Solomon, Serena (November 13, 2014). "The Pros and Cons of Raising Money on Kickstarter to Launch Your Business". DNAinfo. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
Stark, Chelsea (January 25, 2014). "How to Successfully Fund Your Game With Kickstarter". Mashable. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
Trachtenberg, Jeffrey A. (June 24, 2012). "Giving Book Readers a Say". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660.
Trump, Rob (February 8, 2013). "Why Would You Ever Give Money Through Kickstarter?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Verhage, Julie (December 22, 2015). "Here Are the Biggest Crowdfunding Campaigns of 2015". Bloomberg.com.
Walker, Rob (August 5, 2011). "The Trivialities and Transcendence of Kickstarter". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.

List of highest funded crowdfunding projects

[Fast_won't_sell-1] Chafkin, Max (March 18, 2013). "True To Its Roots: Why Kickstarter Won't Sell". Fast Company. Retrieved November 20, 2017.

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