The unexpectedly most successful category on Kickstarter

If you were to guess which category on Kickstarter had the highest rate of successful funding, without peeking, you might guess "Technology" or "Film & Video." Big names like smartwatch maker Pebble and actor Zach Braff have made waves with their multimillion-dollar campaigns.

Across all of Kickstarter, 43 percent of projects get funded, but it may surprise some to find out that the small but dedicated collection of dance projects boasts a funding rate of 71 percent.

"Dancers are hardcore," says Roche Janken, part of a San Francisco dance group known as vîv, noting that the community is as supportive as it is competitive. "It’s the offline part of dancing that makes the online work so well."

By: Caleb Garling

Full Story: http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/10/18/kickstarter-category-dance/