Ranger Ralph Graphic Novel by Steven Oerding If this donation amount fits your budget, we will feature your head (from a provided photo) in the Ranger Ralph graphic novel, either in a picture frame somewhere in the color comic portion, or as a driver in the panel featuring a freeway scene. There you will stay for all of eternity. Receive 6 copies the Ranger Ralph graphic novel hand signed by the artist to share with your friends, the Elda Lady- 5" x 7" collector card, a Ranger Ralph T-shirt, a set of Ranger Ralph playing cards that appear in the comic.
Fund Your Impact Dreams Through Crowdfunding - VolunteenNation Details 07 July 2013 by Kushaan Shah Fundraising is one of the best ways to make a difference on a large scale. How exactly does Crowdfunding work? The most effective Crowdfunding campaigns not only require careful planning for goals and rewards, but also have more holistic qualities that make them huge hits in the community. Shareable - Concise enough to have backers understand your goals Tangible - Realistic enough to make backers believe in your goals Personal - Establish an emotional connection with your backers Rewarding - Offer fun and eclectic rewards to incentivize backers The best crowd funders are the ones who take an active approach, connecting early with friends and fellow students, and also maintaining persistence through the length of their campaign. As a teenager, Jared embraced the benefits of Crowdfunding and encourages other teenagers not to be intimidated. StartSomeGood echoed this message. The benefits of Crowdfunding are multi-faceted. How do you get started?
Justin Freeman's answer to Life: What are the top 10 things that we should be informed about in life True To Its Roots: Why Kickstarter Won't Sell Bing bing bing. "Attention! Excuse me! It's well past midnight in Park City, Utah, at the Sundance Film Festival, when Karim Amer hoists himself onto the bar, stands up straight, puffs his chest, and starts tapping his glass. "We just had our premiere," Amer begins in a booming voice. Kickstarter, the New York crowdfunding website, is hosting this party. "I just wanted to make sure you saw that," the company's cofounder Yancey Strickler tells me after Amer steps down from the bar. Kickstarter has only been around since 2009, but the concept behind the site is centuries old, dating at least to the days of the House of Medici. But this excitement hasn't all sat well with Kickstarter, which lately has been getting attention for banning dozens of project categories. Perry Chen, the company's mercurial cofounder and CEO, took an especially aggressive stand against gadget makers--erecting rules that have made it more difficult to launch a new product on Kickstarter.
Kickstarter Is About To Crowdfund Its $1 Billionth Dollar How much money would you guess the Internet has collectively thrown at Kickstarter? Don’t bother whipping out the ol’ graphing calculator — Kickstarter actually shares that number regularly. Sometime quite soon, Kickstarter will surpass $1 billion dollars pledged. This comes from Kickstarter’s own statistics page, where the company regularly provides a breakdown of where the money is going on the site. As of this morning, Kickstarter has seen $999,209,752 dollars pledged to projects — or roughly $791K shy of the big B. They’ll likely pass the billion mark some time in the next few days. One thing worth noting: this is dollars pledged across “Successfully Funded” projects, projects in progress, and those that didn’t meet their final goal. Other interesting stats that can be gleaned from the page: 135,270 campaigns have launched on KickstarterOf those, 57,052 (43%) reached their funding goal. (For the curious: Kickstarter takes a 5% cut of successful campaigns.
10 Productivity tips for software developers After attending a few seminars on the topic of productivity and time management and reading a couple of books on the subject, I was introduced to some profound concepts and made some great realizations about the way I used to work. With this new knowledge, I completely redesigned my workflow framework something that lead in a tremendous boost of my productivity. I would like to share with you the most important tips that will help you boost your productivity, increase your overall output and, perhaps most importantly, free you time to spend in other activities. Note that the following tips can be applied to both personal and professional aspects, the principles are essentially the same. So, let’s hit the road… Never, ever, ever read e-mails first thing in the morning If there is one thing to keep from this article, then this is it. Check and respond to e-mails only in predefined time windows within the day. Avoid meetings if you can Yeap, this pretty much sums it up. Eliminate distractions
Online Printing Services | Digital Printing Companies | PrintRunner.com Your Crowdfunding Campaign Is Doomed Without This To be successful in rewards-based crowdfunding, effective use of social media is critical. Gaining financial support through social media is not as simple as posting a picture of your lunch on Facebook or retweeting the latest joke from Jimmy Kimmel. Successful crowdfunding through social media requires planning, dedication and determination. A few tips from your favorite crowdfunding expert also can’t hurt. The process of using social media for crowdfunding starts weeks before a crowdfunding campaign launches. Having up-to-date profiles on the three major social media sites (Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) is imperative. Related: Before You Launch a Crowdfunding Campaign, Do These 6 Things In the days before a campaign launch, successful crowdfunders do two things. Facebook. Facebook posts should include photos from the campaign, links to the crowdfunding video, “thank you” posts for donors and posts detailing each reward. Related: Your Crowdfunding Cheat Sheet (Infographic) Twitter.
Prickles and Goo - Essays - Quora You probably know someone like this: Daniel is a 25-year-old software engineer described by his friends as someone who "likes to have things his own way."Food: he's picky and sticks to what he knows. Clothes: he wears the same type of outfit every day (the style he adopted in college). Plans: he likes to make them and stick to them, and gets anxious when they change at the last minute. I know a lot of Daniels. Today we're going to dig into Daniel's approach to personal identity. To crack this nut, let's turn to drugs. Drugs and alcohol By now I'm sure you've guessed: Daniel's a bit of a teetotaler. This isn't a moral imperative or a fear of breaking the law. No, his fear comes from a different place. This isn't a metaphysical concern. It is, rather, an aesthetic concern. In a way, he's right. Prickles and goo As armchair psychologists, we might 'diagnose' Daniel with something like Asperger's -- and he would likely agree. Here's Watts contrasting "prickly" people with "gooey" people:
The Ultimate Beer Infographic Just Got Even More Ultimate What happens when you’re a Brooklyn-based illustration studio that releases an absurdly, ridiculously, profusely detailed chart of beer? Unable to top this perfect intersection of high-minded design and sudsy, sudsy illustration, do you just pop a cold one and close up shop? Or do you put a fresh coat of wax on that handlebar mustache, grab another cronut, and get back to work? Pop Chart Lab did the latter, doubling down on their design that’s been in the works since 2010 to create this 60-by-40-inch malty monstrosity called The Magnificent Multitude of Beer. Yet at the same time, this ever-ballooning print is like an unintentional visualization of the last three years of the U.S. beer industry--we now have as many craft breweries as we had in the 1880s, with two more opening every day. As the company’s co-founder Patrick Mulligan puts it, “I think we can be happy at 60-by-40 for a while, but soon enough I'm sure we'll be looking for a printer that can print 100 inches wide.”