How Kickstarter generated more than $5bn

How Kickstarter generated more than $5bn

 

The Fed Ex guy is always delivering intriguing parcels to Mini Museum’s headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, but he’s never allowed to see what’s inside. On Wednesday, it was something very cool from Norway, co-founder Jamie Grove explains – though he can’t say any more. But Mini Museum has the fascinating, rare and bizarre delivered every day; it’s a unique startup that collects scientific and historic artefacts from around the universe, meticulously divides them and presents them encased in clear acrylic as a “mini museum”.

Its first edition included part of the Berlin Wall, some dinosaur dung, part of a palm tree from Antarctica and a sample of the oldest matter ever collected – 4,568,200,000 years old, to be precise. It’s an imaginative and eccentric project, but one that would not have been possible without a funding campaign that began on crowdfunding site Kickstarter.

Hans Fex, the founder who first had the idea at age seven, was in something of a rut in early 2014 but, within a month, a Kickstarter campaign had raised $1.2m from more than 5,000 backers, and the idea propelled him and his co-founders into a new life running a thriving business.

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