I skimmed over the map to find some interesting data:
* Averages are close to $200 per backer
* USA has $175 avg per backer, but makes 2/3 of that $1B
* The middle east (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Koeweit, ..) spends $400 up to almost $800 per backer
* Antartica has 11 backers @ $337/backer :-) 4th place, after the middle east, After that, Norway ($280), Belgium ($250)
Would be interesting to plot this data against the number of citizens, so you can get a view of the participation rate of a country. (The US would top that probably at around 1%)
Now find a way to correlate that to language and project country stats. As far as I can tell all Kickstarter projects have to be in the US/UK/Australia/NZ and of course, the entire site is in English.
UK contribution - 54 million $, German contribution - only 21 million $.
Something is obviously off.
At this point I'd focus on horizontal growth - get in as many important geographies as possible, focus on key languages: German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian.
* Averages are close to $200 per backer
* USA has $175 avg per backer, but makes 2/3 of that $1B
* The middle east (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Koeweit, ..) spends $400 up to almost $800 per backer
* Antartica has 11 backers @ $337/backer :-) 4th place, after the middle east, After that, Norway ($280), Belgium ($250)
Would be interesting to plot this data against the number of citizens, so you can get a view of the participation rate of a country. (The US would top that probably at around 1%)
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