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If most of that $148M came in via KickStarter, their cut is 5%, so almost $7.5 million, on a single project.

Really good ROI for a low-to-medium complexity website, and a company of 129 employees.



CIG raised about $6,000,000 on KickStarter if I recall correctly. Almost all of the crowdfunds came after they moved off KickStarter to their website: robertsspaceindustries.com


Off the top of my head, the initial month of crowdfunding raised approximately $6.5M, with roughly $2.5M via Kickstarter and $4M via the RSI website.


There you go, I was thinking of that first month.

Thanks!


The article says only 2 million came via Kickstarter. The rest came through CIG's website.


I think $2,000,000 was the initial Kickstarter target. I remember their finally tally from Kickstarter being higher than that.


No need to rely on memory. From the KickStarter page [0]: "$2,134,374 pledged of $500,000 goal". However, it looks like the graphic showing $6M achieved combines the $2M from KickStarter plus additional funds they raised directly on their site.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen




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