Why kickstarter

Wildlands Features. Dwarven Forge Forum. Why Kickstarter? Each new backer makes the campaign better — Your comments help us improve the campaign, and ever-higher pledge totals allow us to add in stretch goals, introduce cool surprise pieces, and new set choices. So much for herding and the lure of knowing you are backing a winner. Participants were randomly presented with five Kickstarter project categories and asked to indicate the extent to which they would fund projects in each category just because they want to help the entrepreneur.

This allows Dai and Zhang to calculate the average level of prosocial motivation each Kickstarter project category elicits among funders. Dai and Zhang combined the survey responses they collected from Kickstarter funders with their Kickstarter data.

When the prosocial urge increased by one standard deviation, the dynamic to help underfunded projects intensified: funding to get from to percent took 2. Kickstarter does not currently enable funders to sort projects precisely based on how close they are to meeting their funding goal, and only lets backers do a rough separation of projects that are 75— percent completed versus projects that have collected percent funding.

Dai and Zhang posit this could be a missed opportunity to drive more backer engagement. That could entail highlighting the greater good of a given project, and sharing details on how funds will be used.

The research suggests that front-loading marketing dollars and effort might be more effective than waiting until you are near 95 percent. Dai, H. These chocolates are for making the most amazing hot chocolate. By supporting this campaign, I helped them to come to the U. I really love the idea of this little bag. I can envision pulling it out and coming to the rescue. Kickstarter made it possible. We already know we have a great product but more people want it. People are begging us to let them know.

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