{"id":1565,"date":"2014-03-23T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2014-04-13T12:31:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T17:31:52","slug":"kickstarter-project-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter Project evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talked about<a href=\"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=1167\"> Kickstarter and \u00a0crowd sourcing<\/a> a couple of years ago on this site, the idea of a group of people contributing to an effort just for the satisfaction. \u00a0Kickstarter is a web site that has taken it a step farther. \u00a0Kickstarted got started to fund artistic projects like plays and art exhibitions but after they put it out there the Internet made it their own and know it&#8217;s high profile campaigns are products (hardware) and companies trying to launch. \u00a0A little less altruistic but quite a bit more useful than the original vision. \u00a0It continues to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine uses it to launch games. \u00a0He has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apegames.com\/\"> a business developing and selling board\/card games<\/a>. \u00a0He now uses Kickstarter to fund new games. \u00a0If he doesn&#8217;t raise the desired amount of money it raises a red flag that perhaps the game needs to be modified to make it more appealing. \u00a0So much better to find this out BEFORE you invest your capital and launch a new product. \u00a0It is also another way he has 2-way communication with his customers.<\/p>\n<p>Kickstarter campaigns (the term they use for projects) have been getting more and more sophisticated and have been gathering more and more money. \u00a0Below is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/m3d\/the-micro-the-first-truly-consumer-3d-printer\">campaign to launch a new 3D printer<\/a>. \u00a0They hoped to raise $50k and so far they have almost $3M pledged and they still have several weeks to go. \u00a0Their product seems cool    , their campaign is very professional and the people have said &#8220;I want one and here is my money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It makes you wonder, what would have happened to these ideas 10 years ago? \u00a0What ideas will be see come to light that wouldn&#8217;t have stood a chance without these options we have now?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/m3d\/the-micro-the-first-truly-consumer-3d-printer\/widget\/video.html\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked about Kickstarter and crowd sourcing a couple of years ago on this site, the idea of a group of people contributing to an effort just for the satisfaction. Kickstarter is a web site that has taken it a step farther. Kickstarted got started to fund artistic projects like plays and art exhibitions but [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,24,22,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}