Fund Endeavors and Ideas with KickStarter
July 13, 2009 – 10:00 am
Kickstarter is a fairly new way to fund various ideas and undertakings. People who wish to fund a project — say a musician, a filmmaker, an artist, etc. — sign up on Kickstarter and anyone who wishes to pledge toward it can do so and may receive “rewards” (such as products, services or other benefits) in the process.
The site is not an investment mechanism. Those using Kickstarter to fund their projects — the project creators — keep 100% ownership and control.
It’s all or nothing. A goal of “x” amount of dollars is set and after “y” amount of days, if that goal is not met, no money is sent to the Kickstarter project creator and no “rewards” doled out. On the other hand, funding goals can be exceeded so there is no limit to the amount of money that can be raised.
And there are embeddable widgets, (after the jump):
I chose the above project to widgetize solely based on my like of the Kinks. The project blurb is as follows:
Last May, I created my mission: To reunite the brilliant but (in my opinion) under-appreciated band, the Kinks. I decided to make a documentary about the quest, wherever it took me. And it took me… To New York, to Los Angeles and to London. Along the way, I scored choice encounters with fellow Kinks fans named Paul McCartney, Sting, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Weller, Brian Wilson, Robyn Hitchcock and Clive Davis. I also headed to London to search out the original four: Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Pete Quaife and Mick Avory.
So where do you come in?
We need to raise just $5,500 largely to finish the editing. (That’s after already raising about $65,000 to make the film – and what we put in from our own pockets.) The good news is that we’ve already filmed everything we need and I’m confident, from looking over our rough cut, that we’re on the way to creating an innovative, inspiring, exciting film. Did I succeed at my mission? You’ll have to wait and see.
Project location: Boston, MA
Also check out the FlavorWire write up and interview.
Now to find something to pledge towards.
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