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" I remember early on, in the first couple of years especially, I would run into some people that would try to put Kickstarter under the 'social good' label. And I actually had this very visceral reaction - I just didn't like that at all. "

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" We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether it's something small they'd like to do over a weekend with friends, or it's the film they've always wanted to make, whatever. "

" I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing. "

" Video is so primal. When you can hear a person talking about the project, and can see his or her passion, it is unbelievably powerful. I don't want to make it seem like projects without a video fail. "

" I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years. "

" Kickstarter has been such a heads-down thing. "

" Kickstarter was already up and going when I got the Fellowship. Spending time with the other Fellows was about camaraderie, and I talked to a lot of amazing and creative people. "

" I wonder if people really know what the definition of crowd-funding is. Or, if there's even an agreed upon definition of what it is. "