[AR] Re: Funding for projects
- From: "neil.jaschinski" <neil.jaschinski@xxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 23:03:44 +0200
Beside Kickstarter are many more websites. E
g. Indiegogo.com. They are aviable in more countries than Kickstarter.
Grettings
Neil
yvan Bozzonetti <yvanbozzonetti@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
If you want to start a campagn with Kickstarted, I can give you some perks for
contributions in the $25 - $100 range. It would be small opals to glue to
smartphone top as a reminder of the contribution.
I have myself some ideas for Kickstarted, yet beign outside USA-Canada-GB, I
can't launch a campagn. If you accept to do so for me, (it would be in the
technological domain, not bfar from your project) I'll give you the opals.
Let me know if you are interested.
All the Best.
Y.B.
2013/10/9 Aidan Sojourner <aidan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
How do you guys get funding for your projects? My team has a wonderful design
that will probably never see the light of day due to lack of funds. We are
expecting upwards of $7.5k for the project, something that none of us can
manage.
We have thought about kickstarter, but I personally don't see the appeal. Why
would someone donate $100 for ANOTHER PERSON to go do something? It's a
donation, sure, but what does the donator get out of it? For Video
Games/Movies/other content, the donate gets the content. This is why
Kickstarter is successful in this category. What exactly does the donator get
in our case, save for a magnificent view of earth from onboard our project? I
would never pay $10, let alone $100 for that, and I don't know anyone else who
would.
Another option is a capital investment from a single source. How would you
convince someone to give you $7.5k to send a sounding rocket to 200,000 feet?
The same with kickstarter, what exactly would they get out of it? CSXT got a
lot of funding from the GoFast energy drink company. How did Ky manage to swing
this? Was it simply because it was a large, historic event? The recent "Aeropac
100k" project in 2012 got funding from Google, I believe since Google wanted to
do a commerical based on the project. In both of these examples, the donator
got their name heard. (google has not yet, although I hear they are going to
release the commerical sometime this fall) Everyone in the rocketry community
heard of the "GoFast Rocket", and the google commercial will likely bring more
revenue in sales than they spent.
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Maybe I seem negative. What have you guys tried/thought about? I am open to any
suggestions, and I would love to get this project started.
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