by Camden Watts | Jan 21, 2014 | Crowd funding, Directing, Kickstarter, Learning
Last weekend I spent some time in Brevard, N.C., with friends. It was a much needed girls weekend full of nail painting, gabbing, laughing, and — of course — some craft beer drinking. Last year we toured Oskar Blues (remember this post?), so this year we...
by Camden Watts | Jan 14, 2014 | Crowd funding, Encouragement, Family, Film Festival, Fundraising, Health and wellness, Kickstarter, Leading, Learning
These past few weeks have been wild! So much is happening. It’s all really exciting. We recently started sharing details on the documentary I’ve been working on over the past year, Brewconomy. I’m so thrilled that the cat’s out of the bag now....
by Camden Watts | Jan 8, 2014 | Crowd funding, Film, Fundraising, Kickstarter, Socializing
Hello, friends! You’ve seen countless crowd funding posts from me in the past year. Now it’s high time you get to see the results of all that research — my very first Kickstarter campaign for my next film, Brewconomy. To celebrate the momentous...
by Camden Watts | Dec 18, 2013 | Crowd funding, Industry, Inspiration, Kickstarter, Leading, Learning
It seems like a long time ago that I watched Amanda Palmer’s TED Talk titled The Art of Asking. I loved it then and I love it now even more, since I’m on the verge of launching my own Kickstarter campaign. When I saw Palmer’s TED Talk for the first...
by Camden Watts | Dec 16, 2013 | Crowd funding, Industry, Inspiration, Kickstarter, Leading, Learning
Last Friday I posted some thoughts on Kickstarter Math. Since then, Kickstarter shared (via email) a link to an NPR discussion on the cost of a t-shirt. How timely. It’s a wonderful break down on estimated costs of getting a t-shirt created. Listen to...
by Camden Watts | Dec 13, 2013 | Crowd funding, Kickstarter, Leading, Learning
Kickstarter has been on my mind for a long time. It was launched in 2009, about a year after I started my first feature-length film. Since then I’ve been watching, researching, participating, and observing so that I could one day run my own campaign. As that day...
