Ten years on from my first Kickstarter, it's with sadness that I've made the decision to close down Ockham Razor Co.

It’s a common rookie error to make a campaign as long as possible in the hope of raising more money. But in the data here there’s no correlation between funding length and total funding raised.

A key part of the Kickstarter dashboard is a chart showing funding progress over time. Every chart tells a story. Here are my stories.

This project shows that Kickstarter isn’t always about designing a physical product and then raising money to get it made.

Here’s the final part of my series looking into the funding dashboards of my latest three Kickstarter campaigns.

This was my first “big one”. Here are the reasons this project did significantly better than my previous ones.

One key strategy I took forward after my third project: focus on number of backers rather than the amount pledged.

Digging into the project progress for my very first campaign.

When you accept that you don't have to do everything yourself, you can be liberated by the realisation that you can in fact make anything.

A key part of Kickstarter is the project dashboard. To give you an idea what to expect I’ll go through the dashboard from one of my recent Kickstarter projects and break it down.

It’s significant that my best Kickstarter has come after six previous ones. Some reasons for this are obvious and others less so.

I’ve just finished my seventh Kickstarter campaign and it’s been my most successful to date. Here a brief overview of the project.