Kickstarted: Crowdfunding Masterclass Edition
In addition to the "Kickstarted" feature film, this Special Crowdfunding Masterclass Edition includes full length interviews with leading crowdfunding creators and experts. This is a great primer for anyone considering their own crowdfunding campaign or for anyone who just wants to learn more about this creator driven revolution. The best part: We will keep adding new, full length interviews for free on a regular basis.
Current Interviews include:
- Amanda Palmer (Musician & Top Grossing Music Kickstarter of All Time)
- LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Raised over $5 Million)
- Eric Migicovsky (Pebble, two of the three top Kickstarter campaigns of all time)
- Chris Roberts (Creator of Star Citizen, Over $100 Million raised)
- Peter Dering (Peak Design, over $8 Million raised)
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Chris Roberts - Star Citizen
Chris Roberts is an American video game designer, programmer, film producer and film director. He created the Wing Commander series while at Origin Systems and is now working on the crowdfunded space simulator Star Citizen. Roberts has raised over $100m through Kickstarter and his own website to ...
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Peter Dering - Peak Design
Peter Dering runs Peak Design, a camera accessory business based in San Francisco. He brought his first product to life using Kickstarter and raised $365k - this established his business and he has gone onto to use Kickstarter to bring to life another 5 projects and raise over $9m. IF anyone is a...
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LeVar Burton
Interview with LeVar Burton just after he'd completed his record breaking Kickstarter campaign for 'Reading Rainbow'. LeVar and his team raised over $5.4m from 105,857 backers.
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Eric Migicovsky - Pebble
Eric is well known for having the first Kickstarter campaign to go over $10m from 68,929 backers for the smart watch 'Pebble'. There was only a handful of pebblers when this happened and fueled by their huge crowdfunding success they have gone on to build a worldwide brand, tech company and becom...
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Amanda Palmer
Interview with Amanda Palmer about why she chose to ditch her record label and go down the crowdfunding route and her experience with Kickstarter and raising $1.2m from nearly 25k backers.
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Kickstarted
Kickstarted follows the stories of three creators who turn to the 'crowd' in order to pursue their dreams. These creators all recognized that crowdfunding has opened the doors of opportunity to anyone who wants to bring an idea to life. Seemingly, all you need to do is ask for support. What they ...