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Kickstarter Goal Reached!

3 days 15 hours and 5 minutes.

That’s how long it took us to reach the goal of $7500 on Kickstarter. I’m particularly surprised (pleasantly, of course) that the vast majority of pledges were at the levels for which the reward was the actual kit. That tells me that, not only do people think this is a good idea, but that they actually want one too!

Even though we’ve reached the goal, Kickstarter doesn’t let me end the project early, so it will continue to run (and accept pledges) through October 18th. That also means I won’t actually be getting the funds for another month. However, now that I know I’ll be getting the money eventually, I can start the manufacturing process. This should speed things up, and hopefully I’ll be able to send out the kits immediately once the money’s in the bank. (Those of you who pledged at the $500 level will be getting prototypes sooner.)

So, once again, thank you all for your support and enthusiasm! Of course, please do continue to spread the word about the project. While I would like to keep the production run relatively small, more units means lower unit-costs, which means more profit money for me to develop new kits with :-)

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Prior to starting BootstrapSolar, Ryo Chijiiwa was a software engineer at Yahoo! and Google, a full-time mountain man, and a disaster relief volunteer.

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