I read that and been following it with interest. Its pretty amazing. I think Kickstarter turned over $50mil last year.
I was going over some of their successful projects today, and came across one of their earlier ones - the Diaspora project, the facebook "killer" or "alternative". It raised $200k and received a lot of publicity. I remember reading this blog post by Ross Hill back in May 2010 (http://rosshill.com.au/right-conditions/) and thinking the same thing as the author. The big winner out of the Diaspora funding was actually Kickstarter. It showed the crowd funding model under the right conditions could flourish and become game changing. Looks like that time has come. Cheers, Matt Ho Native Tongue @inspiredworlds On Feb 13, 3:31 pm, Shane Greenup <s...@1d4.com.au> wrote: > Found this on Friday, the last message about elevation dock reminded me of > it. Anyone hear about this > yet?http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure?re... > > They were after $400,000 to make an adventure point and click game (old > school style), and they got all $400,000 in less than 8 hours. They then > reached $1,000,000 within 24 hours. They are now at 1.6mil with 29 days > left to go on their campaign. > > Looking at Kickstarters blog, it turns out that while the iPhone dock was > Kickstarter's first campaign to reach $1,000,000, Double Fine reached > $1,000,000 just four hours later, and did it in under 24 hours... > > What an amazing weekend for Kickstarter.... (and elevation + double > fine)http://www.kickstarter.com/blog > > Shane > > -------------------------http://www.ImmortalOutdoors.comhttp://www.rbutr.comhttp://www.SportsArbitrageGuide.com/<http://www.sportsarbitrageguide.com/>http://www.TravellersTrade.comhttp://www.ShaneGreenup.com<http://www.shanegreenup.com/> > <http://www.surebetbookies.com/> > > On 13 February 2012 15:06, mikeymacgyver <mikeymacgy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks Oliver, I saw this over the weekend one of the first to crack a > > million. > > > On Feb 7, 10:19 am, Oliver Maruda <o.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Mikey, > > > > Welcome to the entrepreneur life. I'm not exactly sure what you're own > > idea > > > is, but check out these guys, they raised over 800k for their iphone dock > > > idea. > > > What I really like is their video pitch. You relate to the frustration of > > > the problem of using other docks, his solution (and its applications) and > > > how he's going to do it. Very simple idea and it seems to be doing well > > so > > > far. - > >http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hop/elevation-dock-the-best-dock-... > > > > Good luck! > > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:07 PM, mikeymacgyver <mikeymacgy...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > ||||||| THE INTRODUCTION > > > > My name is Mikey. Inspired by finishing an Interaction design degree > > > > I've decided to be a somewhat late in life entrepreneur. > > > > I was very tired making other people money with my good skills, > > > > nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills so quit > > > > my job and have started out on my own. > > > > > So everyone I spoke to around this was saying Silicon Beach was a > > > > great community to bounce ideas off and get a little bit of advice > > > > from past startup experiences. So here I am looking to be involved. > > > > > ||||||| THE IDEA > > > > The idea I am developing is around creating a peripheral for mobile > > > > phones as part of a dock, it touches on a lot of differing skills of > > > > hardware development, electronic engineering and small scale > > > > manufacturing. A big chunk of work for a first time around. > > > > > ||||||| THE QUESTION > > > > My question is does anyone from the community know of any successful > > > > electronics product development and launches within Australia that I > > > > could potentially reach out too? Anyone that has successfully worked > > > > with manufacturers and distributers overseas? > > > > > Would appreciate any help you can give. And look forward to chatting > > > > away. > > > > > My main email is: mi...@mikeymacgyver.com if you wanted to contact me > > > > directly. > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon > > Beach > > > > Australia mailing list. Visthttp://siliconbeachaustralia.orgformore > > > > > Forum rules > > > > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > > > > 2) No jobs postings. 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