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motters on Jan 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I raised $24,000 on Kickstarter (for a text ad...

It sounds as if he had already built up a reputation within a certain community, and is now just capitalising on that. Without that reputational factor, he probably wouldn't have been able to raise much funds.

steveklabnik on Jan 7, 2011 [–]

Yep.

"Without running every day, he probably wouldn't have been able to run that marathon."

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