BattleTech And Raising $6m For The Greatest SciFi Universe You've Never Heard Of

04/17/23 • 39 min

This is episode 5 of the YG Crowdfunding Academy podcast. Today's guest is Randall Bills. He is the managing developer at Catalyst Game Labs.
This episode goes over his strategy in launching well-crafter Kickstarter campaigns, raising millions.
They are currently live on Kickstarter, raising over $6 million with their project BattleTech mercenaries.
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Crowdfunding Academy - BattleTech And Raising $6m For The Greatest SciFi Universe You've Never Heard Of

Transcript

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it's been so successful and it's been around so long while it started out as a tabletop miniature game, there's well over a hundred novels that have been published and dozens of computer games that have been published and comics and toys and plushies and like just everything under the sun can be found here. For those that are like, how can it be this big? And I've never heard of it. I was just listening to a video that I have found from a fan, who