Nervous about using crowdfunding site Kickstarter? So was Greg Kelly, but the Raleigh resident raised $77,000 on his first project earlier this summer, nearly double his fundraising goal, and he plans to begin shipping his first products by the end of the month.
The money-making idea? Retro mailboxes.
Kelly’s project is the second-most-funded Kickstarter project to come out of the Triangle area so far in 2014. We wrote about the most-funded project of 2014, a personal TV channel guide by Raleigh-based…
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