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its4tom

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About its4tom

Videopixie (YCS11)

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    Link to thesis on Scribd in case helpful: https://www.scribd.com/document/362484322/Stephen-Hawking-Ph...

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    Comment #13885004

    The little guy can still succeed on Kickstarter/Indiegogo. We saw many bootstrapped campaigns do well (60% success rate), with videos made in-house or in the $1-$3k range. It's jus…

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    Only a few datapoints, but that's a good area to explore next. My hunch is that the findings will be quite different because there's a wider range of video formats for games. In pa…

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    Comment #13879546

    That's great to hear! We contaced many campaigns, and received answers from 100 of them. We are very grateful to the companies who shared their video info. This kind of transparenc…

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    Comment #13878953

    Totally agree. I think that's what we are seeing from the other comments as well. Video is only part of the battle, and a more complete study would look at all the variables togeth…

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    Comment #13878733

    I agree the video is well made. The quality is on par with what you'd expect for that budget. And it hits on all the recommendations we derived from the video benchmark data. Can y…

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    Comment #13878164

    Author here! happy to answer questions, and curious to hear about your own crowdfunding video stories.

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    Comment #13076138

    It depends how much you are trying to raise. We just did a survey of 100 campaigns, and the majority of successful small campaigns (that raised $100k that you see average video spe…

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    Videopixie (YCS11) | San Francisco | Front-end Software Engineer At Videopixie we are building the largest community of video creators and the tools to hire and collaborate with th…

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    Comment #5907419

    Thanks Cristian, founder here, I think today people mostly go to craigslist or get referrals from friends, to find videographers. It's not a great experience and presents some of t…

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    Comment #5907040

    It was available as an early alpha. And we've had users all along, which helped understand what people need. But today is our public announcement.

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    Comment #3006824

    Yes, retailers need more than just hosting. They need help creating the videos (we offer templates, editing tools and professional services). They need the video to be inserted wit…