On 12/12/2010 01:20 PM, Anthony Blake wrote:
If I do it, I think I should aim for a full years worth of funding, which would be at least 50k. Three months is too short. What do you guys think?
I have plans to use it for my low budget launches of open hardware products, so I've looked at it closely, and see that you are on the high side of successful projects at $50K. If you could think up a deliverable goal to reach with less, it would maybe fund. then you could do another. $10K works for kick-starters. Another thing is, some of your funders are already signed up and don't want the load of kickstarter, which requires using amazon payments that absorbs about 4%, and then kickstarter takes 5% off the top too, so you lose 9%. Instead of the high goal for a kickstarter, go for a low one and get it, then deliver, and keep your funders signed up for more, and do kick-starters only to get the new donors. Yes, to get donors, you need to give them a trinket. Makerbeam was successful making award-trophy-like premiums mark the different funding levels. So some board that doesn't even have to be functional, but looks good as a wall plaque, and then add different level's text to it, a la: $1000 contributor, $2000 contributor, $4000 contributor. but the most important ones for donors is going to be $10 contributor, $20 contributor, $30 contributor, $50 contributor... John Griessen _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
