I can still remember the blank stare my low-tech friend threw me in June when I started to tell him about Pebble, the futuristic smartwatch that raised more than $10 million on Kickstarter.
"What's Kickstarter?" he asked. Then I realized he wasn't kidding.
Such was the plight of the largest crowdfunding site on the Internet: Adored by the ones who adored it, ignored by everyone else. If you didn't know a musician who was trying to make an album, it's quite possible that you hadn't ever heard about the wonder that was Kickstarter, a site founded in 2009 and designed to help you fund and follow creative dreams.
To read the original article: Daily Dot | The top 10 most influential crowdfunding campaigns of 2012
