How I Got Started on Kickstarter

I'm born in Halloween. I had always used it as a charitable fundraising party for different organizations that I was passionate about. We initially raised capital through low dollar events targeting young people in New York City and saying to them, rather than spending your money at a bar or kind of having a destructive night, why don't you celebrate with us? And we really bootstrapped it. Back then Kickstarter wasn't really up and going or were many of the crowdfunding platforms. Then I just threw on my backpack and moved out to Laos for a little while and really figured it out on the ground with essentially a lot of small donations.