A curated directory of resources, articles, podcasts, books, VC's, and angel investors to follow that will help you raise funding for your startup or business.
In this interview a Shopify employee interviews Walnut Studiolo founders Valerie and Geoffrey Franklin about how they used Kickstarter to raise nearly $20,000 for their bicycle frame handle.
Product designer and Sunski founder Tom Stewart talks about how his Kickstarter campaign’s video, rewards, and outreach helped him raise $100,000 for his sunglasses brand in just 3 weeks.
In this article a Moment co-founder discusses how his company chose a crowdfunding platform, the pre-launch decisions that had to be made about a Kickstarter campaign, getting early momentum for his campaign, and other things that helped Moment blow through its fundraising goal.
In this article, Jory MacKay, an editor at Crew, discusses how he and his teammates raised $75,000 to fund the Unsplash Book despite the unhelpfulness of most crowdfunding advice on the Internet.
In this article on Tim Ferriss’s blog Soma founder Mike Del Ponte lays out the step-by-step processes he used to raise $100,000 for his company on Kickstarter in just 10 days.
In this article filmmaker Ryan Koo talks about how he raised $125,000 on Kickstarter for his film Man-child by assembling a team, setting a tough goal, the amount of traffic he predicted he would need to hit his goal, and more super interesting information.
In this article a woman named Keren Goldshlager interviews entrepreneur Samantha Harrington about how she raised $50,000 from 234 backers for her media startup, Driven Media, using Beacon (a crowdfunding site devoted to journalism).
In this article a DIKY co-founder talks about how the startup went from bootstrapping to raising $5,000 on Indiegogo, the ups and downs of running a crowdfunding campaign, and more.
In this article 20-year-old college entrepreneur Andrew Russell Birkett talks about how he raised $10,000 for his card game Cul-De-Sac Conquest in 52 hours on Kickstarter.
In this article Ugmonk Founder and Design Jeff Sheldon talks about how his Kickstarter campaign for his product OpenFrame exceeded its funding goal by $28,000 but barely made a profit because of manufacturing problems, shipping costs, and other unforeseen issues.
In this article Lucy Zhao talks about her experiences leading a Kickstarter campaign that raised $56,000 to fund a documentary called Within Every Woman. Lucy talks about how she marketed the campaign and helped it reach its goal.
In this article Ambronite co-founder Mikko Ikola talks about the percentage of campaign contributions that came from each marketing channel, how his company drove traffic to Indiegogo, getting media coverage for Ambronite, and more things that helped his company raise $100,000.
In this article the co-founders of the game The Contender teach you how they raised $142,000 on Kickstarter by giving you the secrets behind their reward levels, stretch goals, making yourself look good with video and page layout, and more.
In this article Tapity founder and Hours co-creator Jeremy Olson talks about how he and his company ran a private crowdfunding campaign to fund the development of the web version of their time tracking app, Hours.
In this article an employee at PretaPousser talks about how the company used Product Hunt to drive traffic to a Kickstarter campaign for the company’s new product. This article is a must-read if you want to use Product Hunt for traffic generation to your crowdfunding campaign.
In this article Y Athletics Founder Arbab Mazumdar talks about how he raised $250,000 for the company on Kickstarter by focusing on his products’ main benefits, getting lots of feedback, and giving early backers great prices.
In this article Tony Sakich, Director of Marketing at Augur, talks about how the decentralized, prediction market platform raised $1,300,000 in 26 hours using crowdfunding.