A Look Into The Wild Economy Of Tabletop Board Game Funding

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/05/887283058/a-look-into-the-wild-economy-of-tabletop-board-game-funding
Kickstarter and more

crowdstreet

https://app.crowdstreet.com/properties/?
another crowdfunded reit

Welcome to Modern Real Estate Investing We're leveling the playing field for individual investors

https://www.equitymultiple.com/
crowdfunding real estate

Crowd Supply - for the greater goods

 https://www.crowdsupply.com/
like kickstarter, but for open hardware

How We Raised $1 Million in 7 Minutes

https://medium.com/kickstarter/how-we-raised-1-million-in-7-minutes-178283331d96
Before you build a machine, build a community.

How Do You Spread the Word About Your Project?

https://medium.com/kickstarter/how-do-you-spread-the-word-about-your-project-4c1b3a06ac55
Hints from people who've been there on how to get the word out on your crowdfunded project.

How Font Awesome became the most funded software project on Kickstarter — and what we can learn from it

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-font-awesome-became-the-most-funded-software-project-on-kickstarter-9042897369c6
A breakdown of the wildly successful fontawesome kickstarter.

Kickstarter successes, fails and cancellations by category, between 2009 and 2017

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/948hvo/kickstarter_successes_fails_and_cancellations_by/?st=JKEQ0B4C&sh=92b3398f
Kickstarter successes and failures by category.

9 Kickstarter and Drip Creators to Follow for Advice and Inspiration

https://medium.com/kickstarter/9-kickstarter-and-drip-creators-to-follow-for-advice-and-inspiration-fa738c00c715
Interesting collection of kickstarter creators

OPTIMIZE YOUR KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN ... based on data of thousands of successful crowdfunding campaigns Project name or URL

https://predictify.co/
Add-on to Kickstarter that claims to use BigData to help a campaign succeed.

How A Company Raised $1M In 7 Days On Kickstarter

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jiawertz/2017/03/30/how-a-company-raised-1mm-in-7-days-on-kickstarter/#48f280f41566
Hints on how a Kickstarter raised $1M in a week:

The Cautionary Tale of "No More Woof," a Crowdfunded Gadget to Read Your Dog's Thoughts

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/cautionary-tale-of-no-more-woof-a-crowdfunded-gadget-to-read-your-dogs-thoughts
Crowdfunded gadget to read your dog's mind fails to deliver, but not for the reasons you think:

Bright-Eye Telescopes

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1592946658/bright-eye-telescopes/description
Another kickstarter that learned the hard way about scaling: 

How we turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k in debt. And how we broke even.

https://medium.com/swlh/how-we-turned-140k-on-kickstarter-into-40k-in-debt-and-how-we-broke-even-1f86d80fe50f#.8uujonutn
Another cautionary tale of kickstarter almost-failure. 

New Research Study: 7 Stats from 100,000 Crowdfunding Campaigns

https://go.indiegogo.com/blog/2015/10/crowdfunding-statistics-trends-infographic.html
Survey of 100k #crowdfunding campaigns on what works. 

The Biggest Crowdfunding Project Ever—the DAO—Is Kind of a Mess

http://www.wired.com/2016/06/biggest-crowdfunding-project-ever-dao-mess

What is the DAO? A cross between #bitcoin and #kickstarter, with a good measure of clusterf**k thrown in.