{"id":6130,"date":"2017-07-20T09:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/blog\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2017-07-20T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:53:40","slug":"how-a-case-managed-a-mountain-of-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/blog\/data-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"How A-CASE Managed a Mountain of Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\"><p>Backer management is taxing. Just ask A-CASE creator Aleksander Pawlinski. For his first Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, Pawlinski attempted to wrangle the spreadsheets himself, using Excel to manage hordes of backer pledges and contact information.\u00a0&#8220;I made many mistakes and miscalculations,&#8221; he says. When it came to calculating production counts, he found himself in a world of pain.<\/p>\n<p>Pawlinski&#8217;s subsequent crowdfunding campaign for the A-CASE garnered almost 2,000 backers. 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