Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts

Saturday, January 16, 2016

The Kickstarter - Postmortem

It’s been a little over a week (okay, maybe two) since the end of the Kickstarter campaign for Dad’s Giant Family Organizing, Household Planning, and Event Scheduling Calendar. So here we go with the postmortem analysis of What Happened.

 Not the same thing. But still a pretty fun book.
Buy it and read it because I want Magary to keep me entertained with his writing.

Before that, tho, there are deep thanks to everyone who pledged to the campaign. You are awesome for putting your money where my mouth is. I would also like to appreciate all the folks who campaigned for the campaign. From hitting the share button to passing the link along to interested friends, you all helped tremendously. And somewhat unexpectedly. More on that in a second.

That said, I have a few take-aways from this campaign that I hope helps others in the future. Any sort of situation that requires raising money, from selling scout cookies to first round venture financing, is a difficult and bracing experience. This Kickstarter was quite all of these things for me. So:

Monday, December 21, 2015

The Kickstarter - Day 12

We survived the weekend and the halfway point of the Kickstarter campaign for Dad's Family Organizing, Event Scheduling, and Household Planning Calendar. In and of itself, surviving the weekend is no small feat, particularly this time of the year. First of all, we are looking down the barrel of two long weeks without regular events or school. Second, we voluntarily extended that vacation by pulling everyone out for a sick day on Friday. Ewok flu, it was.

So, a three day weekend is nothing to sniff at. But it means we are going into the week with birthday parties, Christmas events, and obligations to attend. We have to fit preparations for these into an already packed weekend.
Preparations make you must. Weekend you shall have not.
Also, be never tired of Star Wars references will we become.