Pebble Time

Pebble Time

New pebble smartwatch (prelaunch)

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Launch tags:
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Launch Team

What do you think? …

Shobeir
Hi all! This is Shobeir of Pebble. Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks @rrhoover for sharing!
Greg Barbosa
@shobeir Was there any specific reason why your team went with Kickstarter again, instead of going directly in stores?
David Quiñones
@shobeir @gregbarbosa Haven't you seen the buzz yet? 2 million in 1 hour and crowdfunding as marketing campaign. The product is kind of ready and they have funding enough to launch without the Kickstarter campaign!
Joseph Kristoffer
@shobeir @gregbarbosa Getting our latest and greatest in the hands of our most fervent supporters is a big deal to us. Nurturing and growing the deep connection we have with our community is the only way we want to move forward as we grow and learn in this space.
Mubashar Iqbal
@shobeir @gregbarbosa @jisforjoe That's a great attitude. However, I would have thought doing that directly on your own site (where you can control all aspects of the experience) would have been better than in the confines of the KickStarter platform.
Eric Migicovsky
@shobeir @gregbarbosa We decided that launching Pebble Time on Kickstarter was the most efficient way to get the word out. We're a small company, up against the largest company. We wanted to communicated directly with our core community, the people who use Pebble every single day and our original backers. KS is the right platform on which to do that.
Ryan Hoover
Sticking to its roots, Pebble goes to kickstarter to fund its latest watch. It released 10 minutes ago and already raised $150k. 😮
Mubashar Iqbal
@rrhoover Would be curious to hear why they went back to Kickstarter for this. Wonder if they got some special deal to make this more worthwhile for them :)
Jonathon Triest
@rrhoover @mubashariqbal they must have... zero chance they're paying normal split.
Matt
@rrhoover You should fix the typo...Time not TIme.
Scrivs
@rrhoover @mubashariqbal Probably a lot to do with marketing. You get production costs paid for and now this is going to be all over social media and news sites so it essentially becomes free and better marketing than they could get on their own site.
Jonathan Kupferman
Really crazy start. They reached their 500k goal in under 20 minutes. In the last 20 minutes they've raised: $37,142 per minute which translates to $2,228,571 per hour $53,485,725 per day and it's been increasing... I made this little site to track it: https://pebbletimetracker.heroku...