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Can You Make Money on Kickstarter HW Projects?

Ken Burns has published 7 hardware projects on Kickstarter. He explains how it works.
Chapters:
  • 00:00What is this video about
  • 03:15Starting with Kickstarter
  • 09:00Kickstarter vs. Indiegogo
  • 13:49Calculating price for HW products
  • 18:36Starting Kickstarter vs. Project status
  • 24:11Preparing marketing materials
  • 27:42Getting help with promotion
  • 33:21Shipping thousands of products
  • 37:34Goal amount
  • 40:46Find people
  • 46:02Board vs. Product
  • 50:07Cost
  • 54:51Do it because you enjoy it
  • 58:20About Ken's company
  • 1:06:57How to reach out to media
  • 1:12:04Component sourcing
  • 1:15:45"Just" a board example
  • 1:18:02Product example
  • 1:23:14Community
  • 1:27:28Advice
  • 1:29:21... only lost 60k, but ...