User:Czar/k/drafts/Kickstarter
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
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 A brief history of Kickstarter, company video on the first five years |
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.
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.