February 2012
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Inside A Live Kickstarter Campaign: Part 1
With 15 days to go, Meme Defense has raised 36% of it’s campaign goal and it has 398 likes on Facebook. Most of the campaign money has come from Twitter at 22%.
Feb 10th - Feb 14th: Most all of the pledges were from people I knew. I received a few pledges from Kickstarter’s Discovery and one from Kickstarter’s Search. At this point, I did very little marketing except...
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Facebook Likes are cheap for Kickstarter campaigns
I’m making a game (Meme Defense) about Internet memes, so it’s easy to believe that once Facebook got word of the idea, things started to spread without much force. However, the results were not what I was expecting.
To date, Meme Defense has 39 backers, mostly from friends that I’ve shown the game to and either their excitement or their need for a t-shirt got them to pledge...
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Efficiently Managing Two Jobs (AKA working 16...
When I saw this post in November about Jack Dorsey, I was taken aback at the skepticism the article received, but I had nothing to say to the contrary…until now.
Listen, working 16 hours a day is nuts, and probably not cut out for many people at all, but I do it, and I love it.
Qualifications:
I’m a software engineer for a San Francisco startup called Eventbrite. I spend 8-11...
