Infographic: Kickstarter Dominates Indie Innovation
Become a member: Subscribe
NTS Headlines
Headlines by Category
Headlines by Year
Solari’s Building Wealth materials are organized to inspire and support your personal strategic and financial planning.
Building Wealth
This 6-pillar curriculum teaches the basic literacy we need to be personally and financially successful and to do so in a manner in which together we evolve a culture that supports the emergence of an advanced human civilization.
Missing Money
Articles and video discussions of the $21 Trillion dollars missing from the U.S. government
Connect with the wider network of like-minded Solari subscribers using our in-house social media platform, Solari Connect.
No posts
Infographic: Kickstarter Dominates Indie Innovation
By Cliff Kuang
Like YouTube, Facebook, or blogging platforms, it’s almost hard to believe there was an Internet without Kickstarter, which may be the greatest testament to its success. In 2009, the site generated about $23 million for its projects–an impressive figure by all accounts–but in 2012, Kickstarter pulled in roughly 10 times that, leapfrogging the grant budget of the National Endowment for the Arts. You can find all those facts and many more in this masterful infographic created for Fast Company by Catalogtree and reported by Skylar Bergl, Jeffrey Cattel, and Lindsey Kratochwill:
Of course, Kickstarter is selling the Internet what it wants–and that accounts for a lot more than documentaries and ballet recitals. Video games are its fastest growing category, and gadgets (called “design” here) make up roughly ? of the site’s revenue.
