How to Finance a Lamborghini Delivery Car for Your Brewery Through Kickstarter: A Look at Swag-Based Crowd Funding
Financing a brewery, either in part or whole, through crowd funding campaigns like Kickstarter is a fascinating phenomenon. Old-fashioned lengthy business plans with amortization charts, projections and risk assessments are buried at the bottom of the recycling bin, or better yet, under a box of hipster-cut, 100-percent organic cotton T-shirts that have been ordered for the top 25 investors. Swag has so much more appeal than Excel spreadsheets. 
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There are more layers to this either ingenious or disastrous new financing theory than layers of spilled beer on a brewery floor.
Just recently in the Dallas-area, several new breweries have launched successful Kickstarter campaigns. The Bishop Cidery Co. asked for $10,000 and got $20,000. Rabbit Hole Brewing out of Justin raised more than $13,000 in April. Social Brewing in Fort Worth had 117 backers pledge $15,000 in March. Dead Cowboy out of Royce City just launched a campaign today for $38,000.




































