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NPR: NEXT BIG THING

2009-09-15T16:33:39Z

September 3, 2009

Perry Chen, founder of Kickstarter, a company that helps people achieve their wildest fantasies, reveals what it takes to make a dream come true. And participant Emily Richmond explains how she's going to realize her dream - to sail around the world.

Listen to the onilne archive here.

RUETERS

2009-09-15T16:27:45Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chris Waddell wants to climb Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair; George Del Barrio wants to make a film in Cambodia; Jeff Edwards wants to write a book about a science fiction writer: they want you to fund their dreams. A website called Kickstarter.com is making it possible for people like this to raise sums ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars to fund anything that captures the imagination of Internet users with a little money to spare. It worked for Emily Richmond, a 24-year-old living in Los Angeles who plans to sail solo around the world for two years.

KICKSTARTER.COM CHECK-IN

2009-09-03T17:02:27Z

From the moment we first laid eyes on it, Emily Richmond’s Let’s Sail Around the World has captured our imagination. It’s pure adventure, it’s whimsical, and it has a fairy tale quality to it, too. Here is Emily, this 24-year-old girl from LA, planning a two-year solo voyage around the world that will take her to six continents and three oceans. As Emily points out below, “more people have, in fact, been into space than have sailed around the world alone.” Incredible.

NOGOODFORME.COM - LJ INVESTIGATES

2009-09-03T16:57:50Z

Emily, who is going to CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE PLANET SOLO, IN A BOAT has a paltry TWO WEEKS left to reach her Kickstarter goal of $8000. As of this exact second, $2371 of Emily's goal has been pledged, which means that she is presently $5629 in the hole. Let's rectify that! Alternate methodologies for obtaining financial compensation are in serious order...

PASTE MAGAZINE - LIST OF THE DAY

2009-09-03T16:52:37Z

Last week we told you about the growing number of independent artists turning to Kickstarter to crowdsource funds for the recording of albums, the production of feature films and even the reunion of infamously discordant bands. It's not just traditional creative-types who've flooded the site looking to support their endeavors, though, and of all the offbeat projects up for backing (convert a short bus to hawk Thai food, fund a griddle guide) Emily Richmond's is definitely the most ambitious.

NOGOODFORME.COM is helping me promote! You could win a whistle!

2009-09-03T16:50:58Z

Perhaps you heard from the Paste magazine website, or from this post on the vastly more illustrious NOGOODFORME.COM, that our buddy/videographer Emily Richmond is soon to set sail around the world (all by herself, at the tender age of 24!). We're trying to spread the word and help Emily raise the $8,000 she needs for her big adventure, and we'd love for you to help us out.