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Building and Running a Successful Kickstarter Campaign
Created 9 years ago in Funding / Kickstarter

Crowdfunding is a powerful alternative to traditional funding methods, but it's not a magic bullet. Running a successful campaign takes planning, strategy, and follow-through. I know firsthand because I crowdfunded my startup (Storium) via Kickstarter in what was one of the most successful campaigns in its category for 2014, raising over 10x our funding target. Since then I've spoken about effective Kickstarter techniques at numerous industry conferences and have informally advised on a number of campaigns. I can help you devise an effective strategy for your own campaign and give you practical advice for what to expect and how to handle it.
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Stephen Hood
San Jose, CA
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Founder, product manager and designer who has been working in Silicon Valley for twenty years. I am co-founder and CEO of Storium. Prior to Storium I co-founded and successfully sold Blockboard, a mobile social network for neighborhoods. I was director of product for social bookmarking pioneer del.icio.us, oversaw R&D efforts at Yahoo that produced search breakthroughs later copied by Google, and was a product manager for BEA Systems' WebLogic family of Java technologies. I've bootstrapped, crowdfunded, and venture funded my way across this industry, and have loved every minute of it.
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