Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Ken Burns has published 7 hardware projects on Kickstarter. He explains how it works.

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Chapters:
00:00 What is this video about
03:15 Starting with Kickstarter
09:00 Kickstarter vs. Indiegogo
13:49 Calculating price for HW products
18:36 Starting Kickstarter vs. Project status
24:11 Preparing marketing materials
27:42 Getting help with promotion
33:21 Shipping thousands of products
37:34 Goal amount
40:46 Find people
46:02 Board vs. Product
50:07 Cost
54:51 Do it because you enjoy it
58:20 About Ken's company
1:06:57 How to reach out to media
1:12:04 Component sourcing
1:15:45 "Just" a board example
1:18:02 Product example
1:23:14 Community
1:27:28 Advice
1:29:21 ... only lost 60k, but ...

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