That would be The JOBS Act. It is for any kind of small business, but definitely has major implications for low-budget fundraising.

A worst-case Kickstarter scenario in the news today...  will be interesting to see what the fallout may be.   

Kickstarter Project Canceled After Dude Spends All the Money

As I've heard, having Amazon handle the payments is due to their relationship to credit card companies. Putting holds and guarantees on funds to move at a later date was a really novel idea when Kickstarter first started, and a startup couldn't swing those kinds of negotiations.

And Brian, yes, the author of that manual was advocating for sexual assault. It's like, exactly what sexual assault is.

http://www.doctornerdlove.com/2013/03/e … c-consent/

I was introduced to Kickstarter by our very own Eddie Doty, and my first funded project was his One More Round short movie (which looks to be picture locked!). I was fascinated both by the concept and the passion and because it's in dollars, rather than pounds, it felt less like a burden to donate helpful amounts.

I've now kickstarted 5 computer games (2 released), 3 short movies (1 released), a space telescope and a documentary.  I love it.

The only negative I can think of is that the website makes it quite difficult to really browse and find things, almost every project I've donated to (funded or not) I've heard about outside of the website - from here and on other sites. So from that perspective, it's definitely something to keep in mind should one ever try kickstarter as a means for funding.

ArsTechnica did an interesting interview with harebrained schemes - the company behind the Shadowrun Returns kickstarter

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/f … d-schemes/

There's an interesting, and relevant point made during the interview which comes back to people being but hurt about Zach Braff - or celebrity projects:

This is pretty much the crux of Kickstarter - you have to be able to sell. If you can't, get someone who can to do your pitch video, and manage the updates and community interaction. Your indy film may be high art, and tell a story which changes peoples lives, but at the end of the day you're asking strangers to give you money. That's called sales.

I've seen good projects fail because they have a terrible pitch, and I've seen successful projects under-perform because they didn't know what to do once hitting their funding goal. Before starting you need a strategy for getting people's interest, selling them your solution, then getting the hooks in to increase their commitment.

Yeah, I was a bit confused on Brian's dismissal. Perhaps if Dorkman had lead with this quote?

Note how misguided the thinking is. Making a woman want you becomes akin to training a dog—establish yourself as a "leader"; keep forcing the creature do what she's supposed to do until she gets the idea. Treating someone like that is supposed to turn her on? Suffice to say it will make her feel unsafe and out-of-sync with the other person—exactly the opposite feelings than those associated with arousal. You don't need to be a behaviorist to recognize that. It's obvious. Unless you're a sociopath.

Just that little quote, alone, is pretty dangerous. Imagine if every male college student in the U.S. had that software running on his brain, the one that says "Don't ask permission" and "Ignore her protestations when you whip your ding-a-ling out. She is letting you do this. Because you are a leader."

Scum, yeah, total scum. I just hate the thinking that explicitly asking for permission is a lame-ass, unmanly thing to do. Or that it's somehow impractical when you're "in the moment." You know what's lame-ass and unmanly?—not asking because you're a big wimp who doesn't want to risk rejection.

A lot of this shit comes down to being a grownup, not acting like a little boy. The pick-up artists believe they are clairvoyant, able to know what a woman is "really" thinking when she says x, y, or z. That's childish. Adults use their words.

Yes, no really does mean no...*rolls eyes*

So... it's on the internet.