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Exhibit A For those of you that have been part of IgnitionDeck since the early days, you know the ‘IgnitionDeck Widget’ has come a long way since then. As part of this transition, we’ve learned to stop calling it the Widget, and start calling it The Deck. This is because WordPress itself has a Widgets…
One of the issues that plagued early versions of IgnitionDeck was the inability to test payments without modifying the core plugin files. Obviously, this made it very difficult to verify your installation before launching your campaign. It was important for us to change this going forward, especially since Beta 5 introduced a second payment system…
With the release of IgnitionDeck Beta 5, there are so many new features to share that we can’t fit them all into one blog post. Instead, we’ll spend the next few weeks highlighting some of the best of them, one at a time. This is the first installment of that series. It’s no secret that…
LA-Based indie rock band A House For Lions spent months thinking through how they’d go about crowdfunding their debut album. When they realized they wanted to try it on their own, without going through one of the many services available, they decided IgnitionDeck would fit their needs. So what did A House For Lions do…
When we launched IgnitionDeck, just 11 months ago, we did so with very mild expectations. IgnitionDeck spawned out of necessity, and while we thought that others might have similar needs, we were hesitant to bank on that. But we had to try. So on October 8th, we sent out an email to the 264 people…
Half of IgnitionDeck’s audience lives outside of the US, which is why, from the very start, it’s been very important for us to ensure that IgnitionDeck could be translated as simply and as quickly as possible. And while we primed IgnitionDeck for translation very early in the process (some would say too early), it’s become…
When we chose Paypal as IgnitionDeck’s first and primary payment system, we did so because of its worldwide ubiquity and relatively simple API. As it turns out, this was a good solution to a problem that many non-US residents were more than tired of dealing with. Namely, that they could not start their own Kickstarter…
If you read about the origin of IgnitionDeck, then you’ll know that we originally built ID in order to serve our own needs. We had a desire to raise money in an environment that suited us, so we built something that allowed us to do so. In essence, we wanted to build an alternative to…
In late 2009, I was working on BlueRize with my friend Oleg Mokhov when we began discussing the topic of printing T-Shirts and hats to represent our cause. The problem was that we didn’t have enough cash to test new designs, and while we were aware of Kickstarter, we weren’t sure we wanted to divert…
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