What happens after a successful Kickstarter campaign? What’s the best way to deal with order fulfillment and expanding a business and brand once you fund? Today Michael Finizio is back to share Fonde’s post-Kickstarter strategies to retail and ecommerce based success. If manufacturing and scaling up are your thing, this interview should help your startup grow.
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[one-half-first][/one-half-first][one-half][/one-half] [clear-line]Key Crowdfunding Takeaways
- What happens after a successful Kickstart campaign
- How to figure out where post-Kickstarter customers are coming from
- Why funding above and beyond expectations can be detrimental to startup success
- The reason you should plan for success before launch
- Why automation procedures can drastically speed up manufacturing production
- When is it time to call it quits on the day job
- Why crowdfunding can create incredible post-campaign momentum
- What goes into wholesaling to retail stores
- Why NYC is a challenging place to bootstrap a start
- The reason retail can overwhelm any entrepreneur
- How crowdfunding can create startup TV exposure
- The reason a day job can hold a business back
- How backer rewards and options can create a logistical nightmare for fulfillment
- Why crowdfunding creates a unique opportunity for additional product development
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