Guest Posts & Interviews

This is part four of a six part interview series featuring businesses that have taken their crowdfunding success and turned it into flourishing businesses 1-2 years after the completion of their crowdfunding campaign.

This is part three of a six part interview series featuring businesses that have taken their crowdfunding success and turned it into flourishing businesses 1-2 years after the completion of their crowdfunding campaign.

This is part two of a six part interview series featuring businesses that have taken their crowdfunding success and turned it into flourishing businesses 1-2 years after the completion of their crowdfunding campaign.

This is part one of a six part interview series featuring businesses that have taken their crowdfunding success and turned it into flourishing businesses 1-2 years after the completion of their crowdfunding campaign.

For over a decade, board games have been dominating Kickstarter. But making them isn't easy, especially when you need to find someone to handle complex plastic manufacturing for you! So how do you find a company that can manufacture all those beautiful plastic minis? What's the difference between PVC and...

When the creators of board game Catacombs launched the 3rd edition, they turned to Kickstarter. Elzra Games’ Aron West discusses his experience in crowdfunding.

Plan on taking your board game idea to Kickstarter? There are a lot of games out there, and you need a way to prove yours is worth playing! Getting reviews is one way to do this, but it's not the only way. You can also make an online board game...

After running 10 successful Kickstarters, we think it’s pretty safe to say that Don Moyer of Calamityware is something of an expert in running a crowdfunding campaign or two.

Maybe you’re thinking about running a crowdfunding campaign – where do you start? There are a hundred websites and guides which count down the steps to successful crowdfunding, but what about the abstracts, such as building community and engaging with them?

Creating a board game can be really difficult! First, you have to create a design and play-test it until it's a great game. You have to build a business around it in order to raise funds, market, and eventually sell it. Of course, then there's the small matter of actually...

You want to launch a Kickstarter. [ez-toc] And, maybe this goes without saying, but you actually want to fund, right? Everybody’s telling you “build an audience” and “generate leads.” But what if you don’t know how to do that? Or what to do when you’re live? What if you want...

You want to make a board game. But how do you…make a board game? I’m not talking about play-testing or art or any of that. I’m talking about manufacturing. How do you work with a manufacturer to turn that beautiful idea in your head or on some index cards covered...