Have you ever had an idea you couldn’t let go of, even to your own detriment? I’ve experienced this personally many times over. In fact, just in this past year I spent a huge amount of time trying to design a dragon-themed game (deckbuilding with a board). I went through dozens of iterations, and it […]
I returned from my trip to Oakland for my crowdfunding book to learn that some big news had dropped: As of next week, Kickstarter will no longer be using Amazon Payments. Instead, they’ll be moving to Stripe, a payment processing system similar to PayPal. It’s important to note that it sounds like Kickstarter didn’t have […]
I’ve written a few posts about timing and length of projects (links at the bottom of this post), but I read something in the NY Times yesterday that made me look at crowdfunding projects in a new way. The article is about setting personal resolutions and how timing has an impact on the success rate […]
Last year I reflected on the Kickstarter projects I had backed and studied in 2013 to compile a list of the top 10 things I learned from other projects. I continue to learn so much from my fellow creators–in fact, a few months ago I started a monthly series to future a few projects that were […]
As I mentioned last week, I’m at the peak of “shipping season” for my two 2014 Kickstarter campaigns, Tuscany and the Treasure Chest. It’s a stressful time, and I must admit that I haven’t been my best self. I strive for great customer service, and I think I’ve been falling short on some requests. Here’s a […]
I asked the Board Game Lawyer, Zachary Strebeck, to follow up his “4 Legal Issues Every Kickstarter Creator Should Know” guest post with a detailed post about trademark considerations. Thanks so much for lending your expertise to us again, Zack! *** I am often asked about my opinion on whether one brand name (whether it’s a game […]
Currently I’m knee-deep in what I call “shipping season.” It’s the time when backer rewards are shipping out to backers around the world–in my case, Tuscany and the Treasure Chest are shipping at the same time, so I’m fulfilling rewards for over 8,000 backers in December and January. Because of the various fulfillment services we use, […]
Recently I wrote about a tabletop game project called WordTov. A few weeks into the project, the project creator, Michel Nizon, realized that some people were searching Kickstarter for “Word Tov” (two separate words). The searches were unsuccessful. So Michel did something clever–he changed the full project title to: “WordTov: Word Tov The Board Game […]
This post is going to be a little different than what I typically write on this blog. The purpose of this blog is to help other Kickstarter creators by sharing my mistakes, insights, etc…hopefully this post will serve that purpose. I feel like there is something to be learned by what I’ve experienced over the […]
Shipping Kickstarter rewards to backers in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia has long been a quandary for creators, particularly those in the US. We manufacturer our products in Asia, ship them to the US, unpack them, repack them, then send them back to backers in Asia one by one at a very high cost to […]
