Flex funding, for example, allows authors who procure over $ 500 to retain their money even if they do
not reach their funding goal, since every bit can help an author bring their book to life.
Worst case, if our project doesn't reach the funding goal, you won't have to pay your pledge and we'll release Giana some other day, if we find a publisher with good conditions or save up enough money.
Not exact matches
One of the major attractions of using these crowdfunding portals in the first place is the promotional element: Create a buzzworthy campaign and you can
reach your
funding goal in a matter of days or weeks,
not to mention garner a loyal base of fans.
Currently, almost 37 percent of projects that launch on Kickstarter do
not reach their
goal, and therefore
funds are
not dispersed.
And, of course, if you're on an «all or nothing» crowdfunding website, you have a bigger chance of
not reaching your
goal and therefore losing all the
funding you do attract.
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.
Most reward - based platforms charge the same success fee (5 percent) on
funds raised, although some charge a higher rate (usually 8 or 9 percent) if you don't
reach your
goal, so be sure to check the fine print!
If you're running a «fixed
funding» campaign, in which you don't receive any money unless you
reach your
goal, then you risk investing months of work and walking away without any capital.
Without it, backers won't want to invest in you and your campaign will stagnate and won't
reach it's
funding goals.
If the entity raising
funds doesn't
reach its
goal, it costs the investor nothing.
In case you haven't heard by now, From Software's popular Souls series is getting an official board game adaptation, and the board game's Kickstarter campaign
reached its original
funding goal mere minutes after it first went up, proving that fans are still very much prepared to die, and die, and die again.
In many schools, despite increased
funding and efforts, the
goals of NCLB have
not been
reached.
I read up on «Flex
Funding» and I'm confused: it seems to be for campaigns that can deliver perks even if the
goal isn't
reached.
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).
If you haven't started building an emergency
fund yet, making a consistent effort to save could help you
reach that
goal.
Your
funds will be automatically transferred to Qapital from the outside bank account that you select, and you can cash out your money whenever you need it, whether you've
reached your savings
goals or
not.
Throw in the fact that you are starting to
fund an IRA at a time when some experts are predicting subpar returns — for example, ETF guru Rick Ferri has forecast a 7 % annual long - term return for stocks and roughly 4 % for Treasury bonds, assuming 2 % inflation — and I think it's fair to say that this isn't a
goal you should expect to
reach quickly.
One of the problems with socially responsible
funds is that they are
not always a financially responsible way to best ensure that you
reach your
goals.
Precursor Games» Kickstarter campaign to
fund Shadow of the Eternals for the Wii U & PC did
not reach the required $ 750,000
goal, but the team plan to pursue other methods of
funding the game.
I haven't played the game yet, but the Kickstarter made it very clear what kind of extra content you'd get when they
reach funding goals.
With this amount of exposure, you guys
reaching the
funding goal shouldn't be a problem really!
After an excellent weekend for the campaign, Battle Princess Madelyn
not only managed to
reach its
funding goal, but also a ton of Stretch
Goals!
After a month, the project had
not only met their
funding goal, they shattered it,
reached several stretch
goals by raising a total of $ 311,503.
All additional payments will be put towards stretch
goals as they can
not be accounted for to
reach our
funding goal.
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.
We would like to extend a big congratulations to local developer Jacob Janerka, as the game has
not only
reached its
funding goal, it has smashed its target,
reached several stretch
goals, and been Greenlit on Steam!
In the unfortunate event that your campaign doesn't succeed in
reaching its
funding goal, you can always try again.
Often times there are other debts that would be left to a beneficiary, college
funding goals that might
not be
reached, lost income, etc that need to be considered.