Perry Chen quotes:

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

The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.

Kickstarter has been such a heads-down thing.

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.

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.