Battery Muncher
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Thank you for your incredible work Anne, Bob, and all else involved so far (my brain fails me)
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A quote from the latest project update email from Jen Brea on Canary in a Coal Mine:I think that the effort might be more effective if it was using one of the mainstream sites like indiegogo or even a more science focused one like experiment.com. It would expose the project to a much larger audience of members looking to fund projects via their emails and recommendation engines, those sites have more virality baked into them, and they get a lot of media coverage. For whatever reason those established crowdsource sites lend a bit of legitimacy to the projects they host, especially for people not already familiar with the cause.
It would be no exaggeration to say that it would be sheer lunacy for us to give 10% of a potential $1 million to Kickstarter if we had used one of these sites. It would be lunacy even to give Kickstarter 10% of how much we've raised to date ($15K+). There really is a reason behind the choice not to use one of these crowdfunding platforms.However, there are other reasons why winning competitive grants is awesome. First, the money we raised on Kickstarter is not the money we actually raised for the film. Not only are there the roughly 10% in processing fees from Kickstarter and Amazon, the costs of the rewards, and the cost of the campaign, we are stilling trying to collect a substantial number of both very small and very large pledges (e.g., sometimes a credit card charge was rejected). Unfortunately, it's much more than a rounding error.
A quote from the latest project update email from Jen Brea on Canary in a Coal Mine:
It would be no exaggeration to say that it would be sheer lunacy for us to give 10% of a potential $1 million to Kickstarter if we had used one of these sites. It would be lunacy even to give Kickstarter 10% of how much we've raised to date ($15K+). There really is a reason behind the choice not to use one of these crowdfunding platforms.
Hi Anne,
I fear we may have lost it, Anne. If we can revive the post, then we will. I understand how annoying this is for you.Darn, it seems to mean that all the posts I managed to get people to post are gone as well...
If there's any chance you could revive the picture, which had this link address:
https://www.facebook.com/microbedis...9692043766500/755199457882424/?type=1&theater
then maybe all the Scandinavian posts relating to it will come back as well (???) (hard to do it all over again)