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By Ben Popper 10/11/11 2:23pm

Kickstarter Passes One Million Backers And $100 M. Pledged

Kickstarter’s Fred Benenson and Yancey Strickler are back with another data-rich post about growth at the hot New York startup, which helps creative projects crowdsource their funding needs. The two-year-old company just received a pledge from its one-millionth backer, and is seeing new users pledge for the first time at a rapidly accelerating rate. Read More

By Ben Popper 9/23/11 11:46am

The Open Web

Fred Wilson: Don’t Store Your Personality on a Company’s Platform, Use the Open Web

“Don’t ever abdicate your personal presence on the web to some fucking company, put it on the open web,” Fred Wilson declared today at Smash Summit. Mr. Wilson was debating which platforms on the web are important to brands and marketers, but went on an amazing tangent about the danger of trusting a firm Read More

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