Kickstarter’s 9.5 million users have pledged over $2 billion
You may hate how crowdfunding websites are being used for pre-sales, but Kickstarter’s new numbers report makes it clear that a lot of people don’t mind the practice. The website has announced that it has reached $2 billion in total pledges on October 11th, over six years after it went up in 2009. Moreover, it took four years and 10 months to reach a billion (with users pledging an average of $391 per minute), but only a year and seven months to reach the second billion (pledges per minute averaged $1,182 within that timeframe). The sharp increase in the amount of pledges started around the time the website announced that it’s simplifying its rules of submission.
Source: Kickstarter
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