Author: Grant Stimmel

“This is hands down the best thing I’ve EVER read, and I’m old as sh*t.” “EVERY Kickstarter creator needs to see this article.” “If you don’t read this 2019 Kickstarter stats guide, you’re making the biggest mistake of your life.” Ok, I came up with those quotes this morning. But that doesn’t mean they’re not true. Here’s every meaningful Kickstarter statistic, updated for 2019.   Kickstarter Stats 2019   1. Your odds of raising $1 million on Kickstarter are 0.08%   “Holy sh*t?! I have an 8% chance of raising a million bucks?!?!” No, you damn fool! That’s 0.08%,...

Of the thousands of Kickstarter projects launched in 2019, only 17 have raised over $1 million. Ok, that’s a lie. Dozens of Kickstarter board games have already topped $1 million in 2019. (But we’re just going to conveniently ignore those.) Here are the most funded Kickstarter projects of 2019. P.S. Did you know there was actually a BILLION dollar Kickstarter project back in 2014? Ok, that was another lie. The most funded Kickstarter project ever was Pebble Time, which raised over $20 million in February 2015.   The Most Funded Kickstarter Projects of 2019     1. Travel Tripod by Peak Design...

Let’s be honest. There’s about a thousand other articles out there about how to launch your own Kickstarter project. But here’s the deal: The vast majority of those articles were written by people who don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.   Sure, there’s some good info mixed in there. Just like there are some relationships on The Bachelor that don’t end poorly. But a lot of those articles contain info that’s either ridiculously outdated or absurdly misinformed. So here’s our list of 11 simple steps that you can take to launch your own successful Kickstarter project in 2019.     How To Launch...