In March of 2008, Perry Chen contacted me to ask for my help with fundraising--not the kind of crowd fundraising that he specializes in--but venture capital. It was before Kickstarter got its "e" and it was spelled "Kickstartr." I don't think it had even launched publically at the time.
I wasn't at a venture capital firm at the time, but since I had worked for USV and had also raised an angel round myself, a lot of people used to ask me about how to raise money.
When Perry first pitched, Kickstartr was about bands raising money to cut their next album. That didn't sound like a huge business to me, because the dollar amounts raised wouldn't be very big and I didn't want to count on a bunch of bands to be successful fundraisers.
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