Many
Kickstarter projects reach their funding goal at the very last second, and the success of these campaigns can often be attributed to the pressure of all - or - nothing funding.
«Forty - three percent of
Kickstarter projects reach their goal, but of those projects, only one percent are books,» explained Amanda Barbara, Development Director of PubSlush.
But a new alternative is on the way, and if
this Kickstarter project reaches its goal, straws made from actual straw could be another way to get the plastic out of our lives.
Not exact matches
Research shows that only a quarter of
Kickstarter pitches in the technology and design categories were delivered on time, and even after an eight - month delay, 75 percent of
projects with
reached goals then delivered.
Currently, almost 37 percent of
projects that launch on
Kickstarter do not
reach their goal, and therefore funds are not dispersed.
And according to an analysis of 47,188 randomly selected backers of successfully funded
projects 9 percent of the time a
Kickstarter campaign has
reached its funding goal, the
project creators did not deliver the reward that was promised.
According to stats reported by
Kickstarter, while 12 % of
projects concluded having never received a single pledge; once a campaign
reaches more than 20 % of their goal, the
project has a 79 % chance of successfully
reaching its funding goal.
It's easy to get overwhelmed with the fine - points of launching your
Kickstarter campaign but with some of the tools and services above, you can leverage technology to
reach a wider audience and achieve your
projects goals.
FUZE Technologies launches
Kickstarter campaign to
reach funding goal for its new coding gadget FUZE Technologies has today launched a campaign with
Kickstarter, in order to bring its latest
project, the FUZEBOX, to life.
Unlike popular sites like
Kickstarter, both LeanPub and PubSlush
reach a targeted audience that is self - selecting for book
projects, as opposed to a wider variety of
projects, which in turn increases their authors» success rates.
Additionally, there are other crowdfunding platforms like
Kickstarter and Rockethub where authors can raise funds for book
projects (Rockethub is similar to
Kickstarter in that a campaign deadline and target goal are set, however, the
project leader is able to keep the funds even if the goal amount isn't
reached by the deadline).
For those unfamiliar with stretch goals, it's basically when a
kickstarter project says that they'll add stuff to the
project if they
reach certain funding goals beyond their original.
That's no exaggeration: the # 50,000 goal was
reached within three minutes, according to an update on the
project's
Kickstarter page, and at the time of writing it has amassed # 391,644.
Ouya became the most quickly funded
project on
Kickstarter to
reach one million dollars, and went on to become the eighth
project in
Kickstarter history to raise more than a million dollars.
According to
Kickstarter, in
reaching its goal, Ouya holds the record for best first day performance of any
project hosted to date.
The
Kickstarter project for it began last year and
reached over 5 million dollars of funding in just a month.
The
project kickstarted back in August 2015 and
reached a fund of one million dollars on its 4th day on
Kickstarter.
Battalion 1944 is seen as one of the best
Kickstarter projects as it was able to
reach its initial fund goal of # 100,000 on
Kickstarter in just 3 days.
There have been a lot of people saying that
kickstarter is a bubble that's ready to break at any time as soon as we start seeing more
kickstarter projects that
reach their goal but ultimately fail to produce a good game.
We
Kickstarted our other
projects,
reached our goals, shipped our rewards, and successfully delivered on what we promised in a timely fashion while keeping our backers fully in the loop.
They revamped their rewards — perks backers get for funding the
project — from physical to digital; stripped out the features that weren't necessary to the story; and set a new goal: to make the game within the budget
reached by the first
Kickstarter campaign.
Fortunately, the
Kickstarter was able to
reach is goal and the
project is well under way to being complete.
Four months after Double Fine,
Kickstarter reported «Ouya's big day» the fastest
project to
reach ONE MILLION DOLLARS, which just demonstrates that
Kickstarter - as a cultural force - was still growing.
If Konami had their way, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night would never have left the drawing board; this seems odd for a
Kickstarter project that raised $ 5,545,992 with 64,867 backers (one of the highest amounts of Backers in
Kickstarter history) however as Koji Igarashi explains it, Konami wanted nothing to do with the
project, which led him to strike out on his own,
reaching out with
Kickstarter in order to fund the
project.
Last year saw crowdfunding come into its own, with 27,500 backers on the crowdfunding site
Kickstarter donating a total of $ 1.7 million to comic book
projects, resulting in 267
projects that
reached their funding goals in 2011.
Like past Pebble
Kickstarter campaigns, the company's latest
project has been immensely popular on the crowdfunding platform; it
reached its $ 1 - million funding goal in an hour.
With nearly a month left until Pressy's
Kickstarter campaign ends, it looks likely that the
project could end up
reaching close to a million dollars in funding, or even more.
The Pebble smartwatch
project on
Kickstarter has
reached its order cap of 85,000 watches, raising over $ 10 million.