Posted on 07/08/2014 6:11:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
An Ohio man who turned to a crowd-sourcing Internet site to help him pay for a batch of potato salad has raised at least $35,000 from the effort and says he's now considering a huge public potato-salad party.
Zack "Danger" Brown of Columbus says he turned to Kickstarter to help him finance the initial $10 effort. But six days into the campaign, he's raised money from at least 3,000 backers worldwide, and the whole thing has taken on a viral life of its own on the Internet.
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I have a chicken soup recipe that I need $10 to help develop.
I better check out Kickstarter and see if I can get 3,000 people to help finance my soup.
Think what can be done with $35,000
What kind of potatoes? Yukon Gold apparently!
Ron White, please pick up the, well, white, courtesy phone....
How soon before the gov’t nips this little entrepreneurial venture in the bud?
I had nothing to do with this.
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