Funding the Dream

Backers are always worth more than the money they provide for a project. Roger Hicks has created a Back it for a Buck campaign to help Kickstarter projects expand their base to backers willing to pledge a $1 dollar. Listen in as we discuss the strategy around this approach

Charles Luzar is Director of Crowdfundinsider.com as well as a member of the PR committee for the Crowdfunding Professional Association and a member of the CF 50, a Global Think Tank of Crowdfunding Industry Experts. We discuss equity-based crowdfunding and its role in the evolving world of Crowdfunding

Devin Thorpe is the author of the crowdfunding book, Your Mark on the World, and the host of the Social Enterprise & Crowdfunding Conference in Snowbird, UT. He joins me to discuss the coming changes in Equity-based crowdfunding as well as cause-based crowdfunding and how they differ from Kickstarter

Kickstarter and Table Top Gaming have a close relationship. Aldo Ghiozzi, Owner of Impressions, a Table Top Gaming Distribution company, discusses the impact of Kickstarter on the retails and distribution channels of board games and RPGs. He and I disagree on many points but always enjoy coming together to discuss.

Laurence O'Brien, the London Whisperer, returns to talk about Camelot: The Build and how old is becoming new and most of those old game designers from the 80s are still around. We have a fun time, come join us.

Hitting the Launch button on your Kickstarter campaign is usually the last thing you do in the long build up to your campaign. Jeremy Burnham shares the extensive prep that went into their launch of Stack & Attack, currently running on Kickstarter

Tracy Hickman joins me for Episode 161 of Funding the Dream on Kickstarter to discuss the importance of planning beyond the project. Your preparation leading up to your project launch must also take into consideration the bigger picture of what happens after you fund.

Every Kickstarter project faces a dip in the middle. It is the time between the beginning and the end where backers and money slow to a trickle. It is also the time when you have to decide to keep going or cancel the project. It is called the Dip and I discuss it in this episode of Funding the Dream on Kickstarter

This episode covers the 3 P's of Online Branding. We discuss how to become famous and to build your personal brand. Just you and I talking about to use Social Media to build up your identity. And of course, how it helps your Kickstarter campaign

There is a lot of preparation for a Kickstarter campaign. But even when you think you are ready, you still may not be. Nick and Nicole Fink talk about their project and the unexpected delay days before their planned launch.

Funding the Dream returning guest, Jamey Stegmaier, co-owner of Stonemaier Games, joins me to discuss finding success on Kickstarter. We talk about building a fan base and the amount of time and work to be successful with attracting your fans.

For this episode I reach out into the Twitterverse to randomly connect with a fan of the show and a Kickstarter game designer, Tim Duong. We discuss Game Crafter, the process of getting your prototypes made, and the process of testing a game.

Chuck Lawton is a contributor to GeekDad.com. He recently wrote an article called "Kickstarter is Broken and it's all our fault". I invited Chuck to come on the show to talk about how Kickstarter is changing, the impact it is having on industries, and whether or not he thinks it is really broken.

Phil Kilcrease is an experienced Kickstarter Project owner. He shares with us his advice about making changes to a successful campaign to make it a little better. I also share sources of where to go to get Kickstarter advice.

Kevin used local manufacturing and a creative idea to bring his Bocce Dice game to market. Listen in as he and I discuss his journey that has made it easy for him to deliver a simple idea.

How do you find more backers? This is the single most frequent question I'm asked. You do it with the 3 Ps of Online Marketing. Join me for my 150th Episode of Funding the Dream as I discuss what you need to do to find more fans and build your online identity with the 3 Ps

Does Kickstarter help or hurt the local hobby game store. The debate is still out there. I'm joined by Phil Kilcrease from Game Night Games to talk about how their store embraces the Kickstarter movement.

Alys and Victoria set about designing a board game around dating. With Newpaper and TV coverage, they have generated a lot of interest in a board game called Landing Mr Right. They refer to it as Therapy in a Box for mature women who find themselves in the dating scene.

Jarek Smith has created a service to review and video blog about prototype board games. This is needed because many reviewers won't take a look at a game until it is ready or near-ready for publishing. I've invited Jarek on the show to talk about his service and how it helps fledgling board game designers

Is Kickstarter bad for business for Local Game Stores. Some argue that Kickstarter is a pre-order system that robs customers from the Local Game stores. My guest, Josh Githens, co-owner of Boardwalk in Greenville, SC discusses the impact Kickstarter has had on his store.

Devin Thorpe is a Forbes Contributor blogging, writing, and speaking about Crowdfunding for Social Good. Using Crowdfunding to bring meaningful change to the world. He has recently written a book called, Crowdfunding for Social Good: Financing Your Mark on the World. Devin shares with us the many different methods to raise money for causes and non-profits through other platforms than Kickstarter.

Doug Morse joins us again to discuss successful tactics to deploy when in the middle of your campaign. His campaign, Adventures on the Tabletop documentary, successfully funded and he shares his insights.

Three professors, Anindya Ghose, Sunil Wattal, and Gord Burtch, have written a research paper that can be found on SSRN that covers the topic of Crowdfunding. A conversation about the counter intuitive ideas that come from studying crowdfunding

Doug Morse is a professional film maker AND he likes board games. Those two passions come together for Adventures on the Tabletop, his documentary about the board game industry. Great conversation with a lot of insights.

Erick Vallejos has been a Literary Journalism student at UC-Irvine for the past five years. He approached me a year ago for a radio interview on Crowdfunding and Kickstarter. He graduates this month and we take a few minutes to discuss how Crowdfunding and Kickstarter have changed over the past year since we met.