The latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of living through a crowdfunding campaign. This is the first Kickstarter I have done while living outside the United States, and time is making a fool of me. I like to be up and moving early, especially if there is work to be done or […]
The latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life in a crowdfunding campaign. If there was one lesson write large and often in the invisible-but-not-unspoken curriculum of my early years, it was Don’t ask for help. At school it was a sign of weakness, even of failure, to ask a teacher for help; […]
The latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life in a crowdfunding campaign deals with something close to addiction. Addictive behaviour, I suspect, can inspire addictive feelings in others. Be warned. “I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round/ I really love to watch them roll….” John Lennon A few years […]
The latest in my series of behind-the-scenes accounts of life at the helm of a crowdfunding campaign. There are those who like to plan fundraising campaigns down to the last penny ahead of time—goals, timeline, messaging and whatnot—but I am not one of them. To be sure, having a certain sense of purpose […]
Episode seven in my behind-the-scenes account of running a crowdfunding campaign. We’re starting the second week of the campaign, and as usual the initial surge of interest has waned and the gnawing sense of desperation is growing. The seasoned Kickstarter campaigner has several strategies to call on in this situation. The P.G. Wodehouse strategy: […]
The sixth episode in my behind-the-scenes account of life in a crowdfunding campaign moves into the realm of theoretical physics. At Dartmouth University in New Hampshire, near where I used to live, there is a Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory, where they study the strange physics of crowdfunding campaigns. (You might think these must […]
The fifth entry in my diary of life behind the scenes in a Kickstarter campaign is about things built, things written, things with meaning. Yesterday, partly as an increasingly necessary distraction from the stress of running a Kickstarter campaign, I sat in on a seminar discussing something about which I know pretty much nothing: […]
The fourth entry in my diary of life behind the scenes in a Kickstarter campaign. The attacks by the bots have subsided, and we are finally down to the serious business of fundraising. Though even that is not as straightforward as it might look—and I use the word “look” with good reason. Now […]
The third entry in my diary of life behind the scenes in a Kickstarter campaign. The first two entries recounted being attacked by bots as soon as the campaign started. Today I reflect on the most successful and disastrous Kickstarter I’ve run, the 2020 campaign to fund my Mongolian tabletop game Ulus: Legends of […]
The second entry in my diary of life behind the scenes in a Kickstarter campaign. The first entry recounted being attacked by bots as soon as the campaign started. Now read on… On the second day of the campaign, whose total was actually falling farther and farther from its goal as the fake bot […]
