The Kickstarter Handbook: local author Don Steinberg on how to be a crowdfunding success [Books]

If you’re looking to raise a boatload of money on Kickstarter, Don Steinberg‘s got some tips for you.

In his latest work, published by Old City’s Quirk Books, Steinberg spoke with dozens of people behind crowdfunding success stories — we’re talking raising $100,000 or more.

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We’ve seen several local efforts to crowdfund tech ventures, like Connectify Dispatch, which recently raised more than double its $50,000 goal, and Cipher Prime’s Auditorium: Duet, which also reached its goal.

We asked Steinberg, who lives in Yardley, Pa. and has written for Philadelphia Magazine, ESPN.com and the Wall Street Journal, about some of his favorite local Kickstarters. Here are his picks:

• The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive, a campaign to reprint Rich Burlew’s self-published webcomic that pulled in $1.2 million.
• How Philly Moves, which Steinberg says was one of the top-funded dance-related projects on Kickstarter ever. It pulled in $26,000.
• Vault Brewing Company, an unsuccessful campaign to raise $30,000 for a Yardley brewpub. Steinberg says he thinks the team didn’t reach its goal because it was going to open the pub regardlesss of the Kickstarter’s outcome. “Often projects that don’t seem to need the money as much tend not to get as much,” Steinberg says.

Learn more about Steinberg and the book from this Quirk Books Q&A conducted by Geekadelphia’s Eric Smith, who, yes, also works for Quirk.