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Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, Charles Adler, and Kickstarter (Internet Biographies)
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About Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, Charles Adler, And
Product Description Crowdfunding is not a new concept—it was actually used by the Medicis and Walt Whitman in the funding of the arts. However, crowdfunding through the Internet is a new phenomenon. This book introduces readers to the concept of funding creative projects through a group of people, explaining its benefits and how it works. The history of crowdfunding is covered to the present day. Once Kickstarter came along, the company itself had to raise funds to get started. This book highlights the efforts of Chen, Strickler, and Adler to sell their idea to investors. It reveals how Kickstarter went through growing pains but finally emerged as one of the most successful Internet companies today. Readers learn about what it takes to make a start-up a lasting enterprise. With fact sheets on the founders and the company, this book serves as an inspiration for anyone interested in one day starting his or her own Internet company. From Booklist The titles in the Internet Biographies series feature people who are far from household names, but the Internet businesses they began should be very familiar to a young adult audience. Aside from a few pages covering the early life of each entrepreneur, the books are devoted to each subject’s professional ups and downs in beginning and running their companies, with little attention to their personal lives. Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, Charles Adler, and Kickstarter supplies plenty of information for would-be Kickstarter project designers with some background on the company’s three partners. Each book includes color photographs and sidebars on related topics and concludes with a fact sheet with biographical information and a thorough time line. While not the most exciting reads, these succeed in showing how ordinary people can take a good idea and turn it into a business used by people all over the world. Grades 7-10. --Susan Dove Lempke
