Amazon Launches Kickstarter Collection
Posted on July 28, 2016
Amazon has launched a Kickstarter collection through its Amazon Launchpad program. The new Kickstarter store features 300 Kickstarter products. Some of the company's behind the products include Piper, Zivix, Prynt, and MudWatt.
Kickstarter is known for having innovative products. It gives product developers a way to get a product funded and developed. Some of the products fail but others go on to be developed and become big sellers. The Kickstarter products featured on Amazon include electronics, toys, books, kitchen gadgets, books and more.
Jim Adkins, Vice President, Amazon, says in the announcement, "At Amazon, we work hard to offer the widest possible selection of products so that customers can find anything and everything they might want to buy online. Working with Kickstarter is a great way for us to hear directly from customers what products they care about, since they truly hold the power to bring these products to life. We created the Amazon Launchpad program a year ago to serve creators, inventors, and startups. Our goal is to enable them to reach Amazon's hundreds of millions of customers and to overcome one of the biggest challenges any startup faces – bringing their product to market successfully."
The products include the Pebble Smartwatch, which is one of the best known Kickstarter products. Other items include the MudWatt STEM Kit, PyroPet candles, JamStik iPad Guitar and OmieBox Bento Lunch Box.
Yancey Strickler, CEO and Co-Founder of Kickstarter, says, "Kickstarter helps independent creators find the resources, courage, and community they need to bring their creative projects to life. We're thrilled to collaborate with Amazon Launchpad on creating a new path for those projects to be discovered, experienced, and loved."