Maxwell Salzberg of Backerkit knows what it’s like to have a lot of people giving him money who want something in return: he and three colleagues created the Diaspora project, one of Kickstarter’s early blockbusters. He co-founded BackerKit with Rosanna Yau to help people with the problem of managing crowdfunding backers’ responses and… Continue reading Backerkit to the Future with Maxwell Salzberg (Episode 60)
Month: January 2014
Shell Game with Dan Shapiro (Episode 59)
Dan Shapiro with a premium sheet of game pieces. Dan Shapiro created the game Robot Turtles out of scissors, clip art, and a printer to offer asymmetric play: kids and adults can play together and both can enjoy the experience. He brought it to Kickstarter to sell a few hundred copies, and… Continue reading Shell Game with Dan Shapiro (Episode 59)
Gaze Deeply into My Crowdfunding Navel with Guest Glenn Fleishman (Episode 58)
Guest host Jason Snell talks to regular host Glenn Fleishman about Glenn’s recent Kickstarter campaign to fund a book of non-fiction articles from The Magazine. Jason, host of The Incomparable and an editorial director at a major magazine firm, quizzes Glenn about failure, success, fulfillment (product and otherwise), and the reason we solicit funds from… Continue reading Gaze Deeply into My Crowdfunding Navel with Guest Glenn Fleishman (Episode 58)
Through a Glass Brightly with Abhi Lokesh (Episode 57)
Take a picture and put it under glass, but not quite the way you think. The folks at Fracture have a built a business that connects several different technologies into one new way to make large-format photos printed on glass suitable for hanging. Today I talk to Abhi Lokesh, one of Fracture’s founders, about the… Continue reading Through a Glass Brightly with Abhi Lokesh (Episode 57)
Doubling Down with Amelia Greenhall (Episode 56)
Amelia Greenhall. Double Union is a new community workshop in San Francisco designed for women, and intended to provide a comfortable, welcoming environment to make things. In this podcast, I visit the pre-renovation space with Amelia Greenhall, one of the people who helped create the non-profit organization. She explains why… Continue reading Doubling Down with Amelia Greenhall (Episode 56)