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.

What Do You Wish You Had Known Before Launching Your Kickstarter Project?

https://medium.com/kickstarter/what-do-you-wish-you-had-known-before-launching-your-kickstarter-project-3a493cf12437
Hard-fought lessons learned from running a kickstarter 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.

The Manufacturing Mistakes You Don’t Have to Learn the Hard Way

https://medium.com/kickstarter/the-manufacturing-mistakes-you-dont-have-to-learn-the-hard-way-fefe5db296c3
How to get stuff manufactured.

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:

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.