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: […]
