Rethinking Kickstarter – A Strategy for Success (the Wrap)
John Hess explores a different way to think of Kickstarter and how to find success in online crowd-funding.
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Press Pause Play: A Feature Documentary on Art in the Digital Age
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What really sucks is you have to be 18 and have a bank account. I tried it for a documentary I was going to do but, no bank account.
You’ll be 18 soon enough and then you’ll have the rest of your life to be over 18.
Patience young one… age is one thing you can achieve by doing nothing.