The Best Crowdfunding Books of All Time

NEW & EXPANDED 2ND EDITION. What the CEOs of Kickstarter & Indiegogo say about Crowdfunded... “Many people claim to be ‘experts’ but haven’t actually done the work...LaunchBoom is the exact opposite, they are a results-oriented proven leader in the crowdfunding industry.”. – Everette Taylor, CEO of Kickstarter. “LaunchBoom has helped hundreds of campaigns meet and exceed their goals on Indiegogo over the years. This book provides a roadmap and expert advice to help anyone turn their dream into reality.”. – Becky Center, CEO of Indiegogo. Ready to finally bring your product idea to life?

Maybe your product is ready to launch, but you don’t have a marketing strategy to ensure the best results. Or maybe your first launch failed and you’re wondering what you did wrong. In Crowdfunded, Mark Pecota breaks down the step-by-step system he and his team have used to launch thousands of products in dozens of categories. In the process, LaunchBoom has driven more than $100 million in revenue through Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other e-commerce platforms. Mark will show you:How a crowdfunding launch (versus a “traditional” launch) will drastically reduce your riskThe “test, launch, scale” framework: you’ll be able to launch a product that you know people actually wantWhy the “Four Horsemen of Traffic” are all you need to drive continuous salesHow to create a “reservation funnel” and build a prelaunch email list that’s 30 times more likely to buyHow to have your own “LaunchBoom” and get funded in the first 24 hours (it happens more often than you can guess!)His proven way to leverage your crowdfunding success and scale on e-commerceThis no-nonsense blueprint for product creators, inventors, and entrepreneurs will help turn any product idea into a real business. Apply the lessons you’ll learn in this book, and soon you can say your product was Crowdfunded.

Master the art of crowdfunding to launch your product on Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Whether you’re just starting out or already have a booming business, this is the exact playbook the most innovative companies are using to launch successful products today. What if you could build a community that eagerly counted down the days until they could buy your product? What if you could develop such powerful positioning in your market that you rose above your competition? And what if you could actually feel confident your product was going to be successful before you pressed the launch button?

CROWDFUNDED is not just another "how-to" book on launching products. There is no fluff here. No feel good stories without substance. No claims without data. This is a no BS blueprint for launching a successful crowdfunding campaign. Mark Pecota, CEO and co-founder of the most successful crowdfunding agency LaunchBoom, reveals the system his team has developed since 2015 — a system that has raised over $50 million on Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Stop waiting for the right opportunity to launch your crowdfunding campaign. This is it and this book will show you how. REVIEWS FROM INDUSTRY EXPERTS. “Mark Pecota has been in the crowdfunding space since 2015 and it really shows. The sheer amount of million dollar campaigns that LaunchBoom has been a part of is staggering. Mark’s data driven approach for pre-launch and launch are second to none. If you want to crowdfund an innovative product, you want to have him on your team.”. - Mark Regal, Director of Hardware and Technology @ Indiegogo. “The Internet is riddled with one-off information on how select campaigns succeed, but this book goes over the exact framework LaunchBoom has used to successfully launch hundreds of campaigns.”. – Scott Adamson, Co-Founder @ Kickbooster. "Listen to LaunchBoom. Whether you’re a first-timer or a seasoned creator, this book will teach you something new about how crowdfunding works complimented by proven strategies to reach success.". - Jason Furie, Content and Community @ BackerKit.

From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Abundance comes their much anticipated follow-up: Bold—a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions. Bold unfolds in three parts. Part One focuses on the exponential technologies that are disrupting today’s Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from "I’ve got an idea" to "I run a billion-dollar company" far faster than ever before.

The authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Part Two of the book focuses on the Psychology of Bold, drawing on insights from billionaire entrepreneurs Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos. In addition, Diamandis reveals his entrepreneurial secrets garnered from building fifteen companies, including such audacious ventures as Singularity University, XPRIZE, Planetary Resources, and Human Longevity, Inc. Finally, Bold closes with a look at the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today’s hyper-connected crowd like never before. Here, the authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into ten’s of billions of dollars of capital, and finally how to build communities—armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today’s entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true. Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. Itis today’s exponential entrepreneur’s go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome power of crowd-powered tools.