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What a ride this has been! This is the first time I have run a crowd funding campaign, and it has been a fascinating experience. My emotions have ranged from thinking this is exciting, to uncertain, to heartwarming, to what-in-the-world-were-we-thinking, to hopeful, to exhilarating. There was the initial jump in responses, there was the dreaded "Day of No Pledges," there was all the great press we got, there was the exciting pledge match, there was the thrill of scrolling through my Facebook feed and seeing people playing the Pointless Challenge, and there was the amazing push at the end which got us not only to the goal but over the top! I don't think I will ever forget that Friday night when we hit our goal which ensured we would get the money we raised. It was a gorgeous evening, and so our family decided that we would bust out the grill for the first time this season and enjoy an outdoor dinner. The pledges had been pouring in all day, and my friend Meriah kept textin...

(I was a kid in the 80s and thought that was one of the coolest movies I had ever seen.) As my regular readers know, Jason and I have been working toward opening our dream business , Pointless Brewery & Theatre . We are in the middle of a super exciting and nerve-wracking fundraising campaign through Kickstarter . For those of you who aren't familiar with Kickstarter, it is a website that gives artists a platform to get the word out to a large audience about their project, and people can make donations (pledges) to help make this project come to life. The awesome/terrifying thing about Kickstarter is that if you DON'T make your goal, you lose all the pledges. Let me say that again... You lose ALL THE MONEY. So far we have raised over $37,000 and have more than 300 people from around the world supporting our project. All that love feels pretty amazing. Here's the harsh part: we need to hit our $50,000 goal by April 20 or we will lose over $37,000 .  Yikes. Please don...