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Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns books
Posted by Tigerlaff on 3/6/14 at 4:11 pm00
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And does so with an included diatribe against capitalism. It sure is easy to hate the capitalist system when "money is a joke," but also not your cash that you're burning.
And does so with an included diatribe against capitalism. It sure is easy to hate the capitalist system when "money is a joke," but also not your cash that you're burning.
This post was edited on 3/6 at 4:15 pm
What an arse.
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Though most of his readers are from out of state or the country, Campbell said he believes there are backers in the Chicago area that gave him $75 two years ago and have not received their copies of "Sad Pictures for Children."
When asked by a reporter if he would be willing to have the donors pick up the books, since he cannot afford to ship them, Campbell said he would "consider it" but the plan is to still burn the remaining books and produce another video.
This post was edited on 3/6 at 4:19 pm
re: Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns booksPosted by idlewatcher on 3/6/14 at 4:28 pm to Tigerlaff
Hopefully he burned himself in the process. Those donors certainly did.
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re: Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns booksPosted by Captain Ron on 3/6/14 at 4:38 pm to Bard
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What happened to the other $15k-ish?
COCAINE
re: Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns booksPosted by PrimeTime Money on 3/6/14 at 4:49 pm to Tigerlaff
Yeah, it's capitalism's fault that people gave him $50,000 and he blew it.
What an idiot.
What an idiot.
re: Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns booksPosted by Captain Ron on 3/6/14 at 4:54 pm to PrimeTime Money
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Yeah, it's capitalism's fault that people gave him $50,000 and he blew it.
He could have started another Kickstarter campaign for a separate project and used some of that funding to ship the remaining books out.
re: Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns booksPosted by deltaland on 3/6/14 at 4:59 pm to PrimeTime Money
I've never heard of this site. Is there one similar to it where you can propose an actual small business rather than a project?
re: Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns booksPosted by Captain Ron on 3/6/14 at 5:13 pm to deltaland
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I've never heard of this site. Is there one similar to it where you can propose an actual small business rather than a project?
Crowd funding has been around for a while.
Here is how to make a successful Kickstarter project.
1. Base the vision of the project on a dead relative.
2. Say the project supports the gay community; whether true or not.
3. Create a short, to the point video. Don't speak to the camera. Do voice overs on dramatic footage that you created.
4. Profit.
re: Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns booksPosted by CroTigerXIII on 3/6/14 at 5:31 pm to deltaland
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ever heard of this site. Is there one similar to it where you can propose an actual small business rather than a project?
Ditto Deltaland
Been looking for something along these lines to find funders for small start ups.
re: Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns booksPosted by deltaland on 3/6/14 at 5:57 pm to CroTigerXIII
I'm currently working with an investment banker who runs an online site for business funding that I got connected with through a social media site I paid to use that links to bankers and angel investors.
I ran a search on them and they've funded projects of up to 15 million dollars worth. (I need at least 1.3 million but the goal is 1.7).
We have many interested investors and that may lead somewhere, but I'm in need of 500k to by a certain deadline in order to obtain the property I want. The crowd funding thing sounds like a good option to raise some of that money if there is a place that exists to do it for businesses. Kickstarter seems like it's just for small projects or technological ideas.
I ran a search on them and they've funded projects of up to 15 million dollars worth. (I need at least 1.3 million but the goal is 1.7).
We have many interested investors and that may lead somewhere, but I'm in need of 500k to by a certain deadline in order to obtain the property I want. The crowd funding thing sounds like a good option to raise some of that money if there is a place that exists to do it for businesses. Kickstarter seems like it's just for small projects or technological ideas.
re: Chicago hipster beats expectations, raises 645% of Kickstarter goal, burns booksPosted by SpidermanTUba on 3/7/14 at 1:10 am to Tigerlaff
"Well, I certainly feel like a chump now." -Kickstarter donor
Considering you profited the exact same amount off your investment as you would have if he had succeeded and become a billion dollar company - you were a chump to begin with.
I fail to get kickstarter. I get charity - and I get investment - kickstarter it seems tries to be the worst of both.
Considering you profited the exact same amount off your investment as you would have if he had succeeded and become a billion dollar company - you were a chump to begin with.
I fail to get kickstarter. I get charity - and I get investment - kickstarter it seems tries to be the worst of both.
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could he be sued for obtaining money under false pretenses???
I don't think so since he printed the copies and made at least SOME attempt to mail them. I think any lawsuit would be more along the lines of breaking a contract (people paid for a certain service/product but did not receive it). I don't know that contract law has gone into the Kickstarter realm yet, so this may be new ground.
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