Lester's Time Has Come Today (Thanks, HN, You got this started)

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/24/tech/web/lester-chambers-kickstarter/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

by kn0thing • 14 years ago

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arkonaut• 14 years ago

You've crowdfunded an album on Kickstarter, a bus tour across the country on Indiegogo, and a billboard with friends on Crowdtilt. Nice :)

I don't know if many have used all three like you have - Which one was your favorite? Or least favorite?

kn0thing6• 14 years ago

We (breadpig) have done a few creative projects on kickstarter that have all gone rather well:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/999790007/trial-of-the-c... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/breadpig/to-be-or-not-to...

And now Lester. The founders made a decision to support only creative projects and sticking to it has done wonders for our business, which helps creatives get tangible stuff made with their art, basically. All of our product costs are fully recouped before they even hit the market. It's awesomesauce.

Indiegogo seems to have the branding challenge as a 'we can do it all' platform; I still don't feel like I understand it. Letting campaign managers take the money they've raised even without hitting the goal is an interesting twist. It helped in our case with the bus, which didn't have a very clear, tangible 'goal' (however, our documentary is premiering at CES in January!!)

Crowdtilt (full disclosure I'm an investor) atm works really well for group funding, not crowd funding. That's not just semantic voodoo, it's the difference between getting a beach house among friends funded and a soul legend's album funded with different tiers of rewards.

I'm long on crowdtilt because they're not trying to be another version of kickstarter, rather, a general platform for crowdfunding. I see a lot of reddit in them, which for years heard people making dumb comparisons between us and digg. We opted to make a broader platform for online communities and it's turned out well so far.

e.g., http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/12/12/the-crowdfund...

JacobAldridge• 14 years ago

Kudos again to kn0thing and Breadpig - so many great stories demonstrate a real, underlying commitment to making our world a happier place.

kn0thing6• 14 years ago

Thank you, Jacob! Just trying to make it suck a bit less -- helping Lester and aiding the fight for the open internet at the same time is a pretty great deal.

dutchbrit• 14 years ago

They made some pretty dang AWESOME tunes!!

dbyrd• 14 years ago

Alexis, this is awesome, but why did you do all of this?

jacquesm2• 14 years ago

Because he's clearly one of the good guys!

kn0thing6• 14 years ago

I'm just trying to make up for all the awful stuff I do at NFL games.

kn0thing6• 14 years ago

Because I can. And because it's not enough for me to tell apologists for the entertainment industry that the internet is a blessing for artists, it's better if I just show them.

nthitz• 14 years ago

Wait, you told me that reddit made this possible. :)

kn0thing6• 14 years ago

True. But HN was the first place this story FPed.

jbrooksuk• 14 years ago

Link to the article on one page. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/24/tech/web/lester-chambers-k...

kn0thing6• 14 years ago

Very nice! Thank you!

I just got word that Lester will be on CNN tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 8:45am eastern (5:45am pacific) so set your DVR!

Lester's Time Has Come Today (Thanks, HN, You got this started)

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