Some great Kickstarter pitches from the Montreals

Montreal people are on Kickstarter trying to raise cash for their ventures, so let's have a look at some of the 357 of the Montreal pitches that the project fund-raising site has seen.
   Here I am discussing the phenomenon on CTV Montreal this week, please watch. 
  Of the 357 Montreal pitches, 120 succeeded and about 30 are open right now (although some of those might have expired by the time you read this).
  About 200 of all pitches were unsuccessful or cancelled.
  So about 56 percent fail. That does not mean that the project itself failed entirely but it certainly stamps a big L on the forehead of the undertaking.
   The biggest Montreal success was Simon Tian's Neptune Pine Smartwatch which bagged $801,000, from 2,839 backers, well over its target last December.
   Here are some other noteworthy Montreal kickstarter pitches.
 


David Heti is aiming to raise $73 for a steak dinner. He has three backers so far, who have given him $8. His very short video, about three seconds long, says "I just want some steak." He types on his page: "I feel like I've been working kind of hard and I'd like a steak dinner. You know, a good steak dinner. But I can't really justify the e"

Flavored toothpicks. What about mint? Already got 95% pulled in with its $33 k + haul with 338 backers.about it here.
It is done by something called the Phood Station. Not to be confused with the Phool Station.  See all the wood sucking tastiness here.




The paltry $300 is an embarrassment, only 4 percent of what it needs, but Tom Ovidiu's soccer game which includes a straw that blows the ball is pretty cool.





Sam is leaning heavily on an acoustic guitar riff to sell his dream of being the king of spherical ice balls. The video starts off with cool ukulele music or whatever that is, which abruptly stops with a jarring in-yer-faceroo speech slamming cheapo factory made ice-ball competitors. Its $5,000 collected is
only at 20 percent of its goal.




   Slut Island, I always thought, was the unofficial name of Ile de Jesus (Laval City.) This one is a slam dunk, of course, cuz who wouldn't want to support something called the Slut Island Festival? Well, it managed to hit its very modest target of $1,500 even though nobody actually had the guts to get in the camera and give us a pitch on the video. Congrats to Frankie Teardrop and Ethel Eugene. I'll be first in line to the skankfest!

Some guy who looks like Daniel Richler meets Captain Obvious sits wearing a hat talking about free games.
   This guy is actually one heckuva pitchman and is asking for $80,000 to take a year off his successful game-designing career to make free games. His first try last month got to $64,000 but that was short of his goal and his current attempt has him at $28,000, just around one third of where he wants to be. The kickstarter rules dictate that if you don't get 100% of your goal it's a failure, so he might be kicking himself that he didn't ask for $60,000 in his first go-round.