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These lessons are roughly in the chronological order that you’ll need to reference them.

Kickstarter Lesson #16: Launch Day

Kickstarter Lesson #148: Google Analytics

Kickstarter Lesson #139: Mitigating Kickstarter’s Frailty

Kickstarter Lesson #120: How to Include People Who Don’t Know What Kickstarter Is

Kickstarter Lesson #101: Momentum Breeds Success

Kickstarter Lesson #17: Treat Your Backers as Individuals, Not Numbers

Kickstarter Lesson #71: People Are More Compelling Than Numbers

Live-Blogging Lesson #1: Filtering Cancellations

Kickstarter Lesson #102: Passion Is Contagious

Kickstarter Lesson #98: Creation Is Leadership

Kickstarter Lesson #18: Project Updates

Kickstarter Lesson #115: The Best Opening Lines for Project Updates and Backer E-mails

Live-Blogging Lesson #3: Updating Previous Projects

Kickstarter Lesson #99: Backer-Only Project Updates

Kickstarter Lesson #90: What You Should Do for 30 Minutes After Posting a Project Update

Kickstarter Lesson #38: Be Mentally Prepared for Cancellations

Kickstarter Lesson #79: Cancellations

Kickstarter Lesson #155: The Most Dangerous Thing a Creator Can Do

Kickstarter Lesson #181: Love Your Competitors

Kickstarter Lesson #136: What to Do If You Receive a Cease & Desist Letter Concerning Your Kickstarter

Kickstarter Lesson #19: The Daily Dashboard Screenshot

Kickstarter Lesson #20: Flexibility, Filtering, and Responding to Feedback

Kickstarter Lesson #21: Kicktraq

Kickstarter Lesson #80: How to Create Community Through Conversation on Kickstarter

Kickstarter Lesson #106: Don’t Copy and Paste

Kickstarter Lesson #58: How to Manage Toxic Backers

Kickstarter Lesson #27: Bloggers, Podcasters, and Reviewers

Kickstarter Lesson #28: Social Networks

Kickstarter Lesson #93: Overestimating and Underestimating Your Tribe

Kickstarter Lesson #29: Hometown Press and Local Media

Kickstarter Lesson #51: Cross-Promotion Between Kickstarter Projects

Kickstarter Lesson #141: The 5 Types of Spam That Creators Receive During Crowdfunding Campaigns…and What to Do About It