Last year’s tech news seems like it has no use whatsoever.
Technology teaches us to forget the past. This is an excellent list, if for no other reason that I have actually read 14 of these books.
If big name professional filmmakers and musicians take to the platform this year in the same way that game designers have, Kickstarter funding is likely to grow even faster. As Strickler wrote in a blog post, the funding breakdown for all projects is roughly: While gaming and tech projects have represented the majority of the company’s multi-million dollar projects, they are not the majority of funding on the platform. Here is a chart the company shared when it hit 1 million backers. The stats aren’t actually so shocking when you go back and look at Kickstarter’s growth curve from 2011.
I decided to take a look at all the successful projects funded since the beginning of 2012 to get a sense of how the startup was growing.īased on that data, Kickstarter is on pace to raise around $300 million this year, triple what it did in 2011.įor a young startup, that means serious revenue for Kickstarter, which takes 5 percent of all successfully funded projects. Back in February Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler said the company was on pace to distribute more funding than the $146 million given out each year by the National Endowment for the Arts. The site, which never had a million dollar project before 2012, keeps breaking its own records, with the Pebble smartwatch, which has now raised more than $5 million, leading the pack.īut tech projects represent just one portion of Kickstarter’s funding base. We’ve been reporting on a lot of very cool tech and gaming projects that have found huge success on the New York-based crowdfunding platform Kickstarter this year. Kickstarter funding explodes, on pace to triple this year to around $300M Non-Tech : Binary Hodgepodge - Ignore unavailable to you. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level. Investor in the best interests of our community. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature.
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