Kick Starter strikes again

[JasonG]

Originally Posted by magicrobotmonkey

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...is-on-the-move

I may have missed this, but when does Kicksterter back an actual business? I thought they only did product ideas, non profit, movies, etc. Not an A-Z business?

[jetskier]

Originally Posted by JasonG

I may have missed this, but when does Kicksterter back an actual business? I thought they only did product ideas, non profit, movies, etc. Not an A-Z business?

The kickstarter concept is fundamentally to support nascent businesses by either paying for their product (which does not exist) or for some honorarium such as is listed for Hermit Woods Winery. The fundamental issue has been that investors in nascent companies had to be "accredited" meaning that you had to meet either income or net worth levels to qualify and own equity. This is a mechanism to get around that and open up to a wider population. I am an angel investor, entrepreneur and consultant....yes, I have kicked in to a couple of companies on Kickstarter too.

Jetskier

[mikea]

Originally Posted by jetskier

The kickstarter concept is fundamentally to support nascent businesses by either paying for their product (which does not exist) or for some honorarium such as is listed for Hermit Woods Winery. The fundamental issue has been that investors in nascent companies had to be "accredited" meaning that you had to meet either income or net worth levels to qualify and own equity. This is a mechanism to get around that and open up to a wider population. I am an angel investor, entrepreneur and consultant....yes, I have kicked in to a couple of companies on Kickstarter too.

Jetskier

Great comments but I believe that Kickstarter / Indiegogo etc are specifically not allowed to offer any form of equity transaction and therein operate upon a 'gift' or 'perk' scenario... and they can work extremely well!

A number of promotions have raised multimillion $ funds (free of equity vest, interest or repayment) for their businesses via this form of crowd-funding as opposed to peer2peer / equity or donation types...

[JasonG]

Originally Posted by jetskier

The kickstarter concept is fundamentally to support nascent businesses by either paying for their product (which does not exist) or for some honorarium such as is listed for Hermit Woods Winery. The fundamental issue has been that investors in nascent companies had to be "accredited" meaning that you had to meet either income or net worth levels to qualify and own equity. This is a mechanism to get around that and open up to a wider population. I am an angel investor, entrepreneur and consultant....yes, I have kicked in to a couple of companies on Kickstarter too.

Jetskier

I appreciate the input. I am looking at kickstarter/fundable, etc to boost a tropical brand I am in the process of build for a year now. Lots of research, hence the reason this post caught my attention.

[mikea]

Originally Posted by JasonG

I may have missed this, but when does Kicksterter back an actual business? I thought they only did product ideas, non profit, movies, etc. Not an A-Z business?

Kickstarter do not provide any funds... to the contrary, they take a percentage of monies raised! They are a promotional platform (to the general public) upon which virtually anybody can build their own project to seek to raise funds... but it's not that easy and a huge amount of grunt work has to be input to gain success!!!