Worldly Women, Crowdfunding Works
Kickstarter is becoming the cool way for projects to raise money.
Take musician Amanda Palmer, she managed to raise more than $1 million for a new album through a Kickstarter project, making it the seventh project to break the million-dollar mark in the crowdfunding platform’s history. She ended up with 24,883 backers and did it in three days. Yes, you read that right.
![AmandaPalmerphoto](https://womenentrepreneursgrowglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/amandapalmerphoto.jpg?w=76)
Even before signing up with Kickstarter, Palmer had already spent more than $250,000 (as shown above) recording her new album.
What does all this say? Where there’s a will with talent, there’s a way.
Read the entire article over at VentureBeat.
Related article: Amanda Palmer’s blog (if you have an aversion to profanity, skip a visit to the blog).
Posted by: Laurel Delaney