Need $8,000 to start your dream of a Lebanese food truck in Asheville, NC?
How about $1,200 to print a kids book about a monkey?
or $15,000 to manufacture some ultra-geeky iPod nano watch straps?
Then kickstarter is the place to be. Sure, there’s a lot of stuff there that looks like it will never get funded but I am in awe of the stuff that does. Or, in the case of the watch straps above, how over $136,000 can be pledged so quickly.
Kickstarter is one of the better executed plays on the concept. A more organized, official version of the bulletin board group buy. And while the arts funding is nice, it’s the inventor side that will ultimately garner the most interest. Like that geeky nano watch above.
Yeah, I pledged $70.
Got an idea you want to kickstart?
