Kickstarter Offers Enterprising Farmers Something They’ve Never Had: A Straightforward Way to Raise Money for New Projects
Now that Vermont farmer Walter Jeffries has raised $25,000 on Kickstarter to complete a new butcher shop at his Sugar Mountain Farm, he’s working on the next $5,000—to “pour the concrete for… the abattoir where we'll be able to do on-farm slaughter. “
He’s clearly taken with his success, and well he should be. Raising capital has traditionally been a very challenging task for most small businesses, and even more so for small farms. They just haven’t had the pizzazz of video game companies or businesses making some new iPhone gizmo.
But all that is changing. Not that the techie businesses are less attractive, but the farms, well, they’ve got a new aura about them with the growing interest in wholesome and healthy food.
I was looking around on Kickstarter, and found any number of farm-related enterprises raising money. There’s a compost program in Buffalo, NY. A North Carolina vegetable farm is trying to raise $4,500 for a market van.
Kickstarter has even spawned its own ecosystem. As one example, there is something called Kicktraq, which projects how much a particular project can be expected to raise. For Jeffries, he’s trending toward $38,000, says Kicktraq.
Grist reported recently that food ventures raised $2.8 million via Kickstarter last year.
As someone who spent a lot of time in a previous life advising small companies on writing business plans to raise money, I find Kickstarter very intriguing, one of those special outgrowths of the Internet age. The notion that businesses can raise financing without having to give up something substantial, like a significant percentage of ownership, or a lien on a home, is pretty radical.
Indeed, I don't see it truly as a financing tool, or even, as the New York Times suggests, “a way to float ideas and see if there’s a market for them before they trade ownership of their company for money from venture capitalists.”
For farmers, at least, I’d say Kickstarter is a very neat promotion, expansion, and sales tool. What Walter Jeffries is doing is offering pork sausages, bacon, and other meat products as an incentive to people to fund a couple of important farm projects. So people like me, who back him, can get something we value—good food—and feel altruistic at the same time.
It's not been a slam dunk for Jeffries. He's had to do aggressive promotion among his customers and friends, and get lots of Twitter and Facebook mentions. There have also been some nice media mentions, like on Vermont Public Radio.
All that is essential, because you only get your money if you achieve your entire goal. You get nothing if you only partially achieve your goal. Kickstarter says close to half of its 20,000 projects have achieved their goals.
When he’s done, not only does he have the money for his project (minus 5 per cent for Kickstarter and 3-5% for Amazon, which handles the transactions), but he has a list of future customers. And he still owns as much of his business and his land as he did before he went on Kickstarter.
A key to success appears to be “the reward” offered as part of a project. And here, farmers have a big advantage. Everyone loves good food. Put together the right combination of interesting project and food package, and it could work. I’m just not sure Kickstarter is quite ready for raw milk rewards.
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Kickstarter is awesome and is a natural outgrowth of Farmers connecting to their closely held consumer base. At OPDC is has always been the consumers demand and the consumers generous offer of financial assistance that has funded our growth. There is a truth to this offering. Consumers are so highly regarded and so highly protected...they always get their money back. The last thing that a raw milk dairy needs is bad rumor about not treating their investors well.
This whole Kickstarter fund raising system is very much a reminder of the recently passed ( April 5th )Obama Jobs Creation Act and its "Emerging Growth Company ( EGC ) ON-RAMP IPO program. This abreviated, less red tape, going to the public, to generate funds for growth is something on my mind. The OPDC team is attending a seminar on this very subject tomorrow.
I need guidance. ...
As this site has been reorganized, if on a given day, there are eighty comments at
eight am and ninety comments at twelve noon, the additional
ten comments could be interspersed anywhere amongst the eighty? If
this is so, whereas under the previous design I could always go
straight to the end of the comments and read backwards until I hit one
I'd already read, thus covering the new ones, under the
present design a scan must be performed throughout the whole of the
comments to discover the comments that have been added as
comments to comments (in chronological order at that point, yes, (but
only there) breaking the chronology of the comments in toto)?
I will say, that at most websites this purely wouldn't matter as I
glance at the comments (if at all) to get the flavor whereas
here I read the comments to follow thoughts, facts, and argument, a
very different kettle of fish.
I could use a search function, yes, but that is by the day, correct?
If I am covering two days that technique becomes choppy (not
desirable).
Further, and importantly, if a comment to a comment is not placed as
such, then although it is a comment to a comment, it will be at the
very end of the comments and if you think that reading just below a comment
that you are getting all the comments to that comment, you
will be mistaken.
Perhaps the comment scheme should be simply chronological with each
comment being clearly numbered. Then, at the beginning of your
comment to (an)other comment(s) (interabang here) you can simply give
the numbers of the referenced comments. The compositional
technique in everyday use, to lead with a cogent reference to a
previous comment is very helpful in all cases.
Take away: I don't have the time to rescan the entire comment section.
i.e. it ain't gonna happen. c'est la vie
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard
I also need guidance with the new format. With only limited time to spend online, I need to be efficient with my reading. This is such a wonderful blog - it's one of the first I look for when I do have time to browse. It takes so much longer to locate the new comments and follow a thread of conversation now since I have to scroll through all to find new.
When I tried to post a comment, only part of my comment appeared, and that part was rather scrambled. When I tried to fix it, I discovered I couldn't edit my own post. I guess I'm not ready for social media & blogs. :(
When you first hit the homepage, the right column is dedicated to new comments. You can look through those, and at the bottom of that column are little squares. Hit the next square (second from the left) and it will take you backwards. All of the comments there are in chronological order. The comments under each post are not chronological so it makes it easier to follow discussions within the comments section. Best, Kristen
This is a common format, and it's not hard to use once you get used to it. I hadn't been following threads formatted like this for awhile, so when Complete Patient switched it took me a little while to get reacquainted with it.
I agree that the spacing is relatively cramped which makes it more difficult to read than similarly formatted threads at some other sites. I recommend looking first at the time posted for each comment as you scroll. Then it's pretty easy to pick out what's new.
I'm glad to hear more about how this is helping small farm projects (in spite of Kickstarter's rent extraction and Amazon's pernicious involvement; we need a P2P version, which I think does already exist).
I love the way the NYT needs to reach for a corporatist spin. The corporate media sure does hate any sign of decentralization, bottom-up action, democracy.
Hey everybody, I will be honest and tell you that I am looking to see all of your names as backers for Walter's project. One person from this group did so at the very beginning, can't remember who, but thanks cuz you know who you are. David is a backer. Michael Pollan tweeted it out. This Kickstarter project offers all clean food advocates an opportunity to put their money where there mouths are. Let's remember just who Walter Jeffries is and then you'll understand why he ought to be supported. He was more than instrumental in stopping the original NAIS. His blog NoNais.org was the clearing house for all information related to the activism.
I understand that some of you might raise your own pork so you don't need the meat or the bacon, but still, support him. He offers all this plans as Open Source info so anyone who wants to do what he is doing, he will provide all the information necessary; building plans, materials lists, etc. For free.
Please be a backer. It is the right thing to do.
Sharon, I'm not sure if I'm the one you refer to but I did jump on board early on back in March when I first heard about it, and later when Walter announced the bacon upgrade I went with that too. Now I'm thinking of upgrading again for the Roaster Party Package Oven Sized, but it will be a hard sell to my wife since I've been unemployed for almost a year. Still, if I'm going to donate money to any cause, this is the kind of think I would back even in hard times. Walter is great, and so is the Kickstarter concept, please join in everybody!
That shoulda been "the kind of thing." Anyhow, I'm going to try hard to convince the wife even though these days, she's the one bring home the bacon.
For your reading pleasure, here is a blog entry that mentions the Wendell Berry lecture at the end:
http://ofthehands.com/2012/05/02/why-ill-pay-10-for-a-gallon-of-milk/
"This milk hadn’t been homogenized or standardized. It hadn’t had the flavor burnt out of it or its unique bacteria profile killed via pasteurization. It didn’t have an exact expiration date. In many ways, it didn’t have any expiration date, as its evolving stages lent itself to changing uses. It wasn’t a conglomeration of hundreds or thousands of different cows’ milk and it wasn’t untraceable or virtually untraceable by dint of it being the end result of a vast, complicated and confusing industrial dairy system. It was Opal’s milk. It came from a cow I had met and spoken to and touched, it had been milked by the hands of two women whom I knew and am friends with, it was the result of eaten grass from a pasture I had stood in. I knew exactly where it came from and how it had come to me."
This is how it should be....
Yes, Ora Moose, it was you I was referring to. Thanks for upgrading!
Disappointed that many of the others haven't become backers. Supposedly we are all about free enterprise, thinking outside of the box, small family farms. Shrug.
Very good. . .It is important to support practical- hands on -boots in the mud projects.
Our group, Michigan Land Trustees has been at it now for coming on 40 years-quietly working in the backwaters of Michigan. Somehow with few funds we’ve been able to jump start community gardens, a very popular Harvest Fest –one of the largest in the Midwest (http://www.fairfoodmatters.org/harvestfest/ held at http://www.tillersinternational.org/ , these are very active and hands-on-practical organizations) )as well as educate new farmers and introduce people to the land. We are now trying to figure out how to match available land to new younger farmers….. Raising money is tough especially in tough times-that are getting tougher. We even have a newsletter—grass roots published going back decades. Michigan Land Trustees also supported as amici the many legal appeals and lawsuits that have been discussed on these pages-to further our food rights-from the very beginings..........
One thing that has happened is that we now have a cluster of so to be six organic farms with adjacent properties comprising several hundred acres raising food for a wide area. Extending up along Michigan’s west coast and south to Chicago. The catalyst was the idea of a university sponsored Homesteading School in 1975—small……but from small efforts many—many lives are touched. And even me—“Dr. Doom,” sees glimmers of hope……good people with….a few dollars for the right cause-with the right people at the right time can have an impact……….
I’d certainly like to hear more about these sorts of projects and encourage their support.....their is great hope and comfort in community.
http://www.michiganlandtrust.org/
Thank you Kristin, Russ, for the guidance.
To David and the webmaster, fyi:
The recent COMMENTS column doesn’t rescue me from my time-spent-reading-comments dilemma because that column displays an extract of four lines and an ellipsis, and the opportunity to jump to the comment, yes, followed by the opportunity to jump back and forth between the recent COMMENTS column and the full comment. This jumping back and forth is both time wasting and distracting. The extracted comment format makes sense to me if this were in the galaxy of websites where the comments are essentially worthless, but, here, in the galaxy Substance, let’s have the recent COMMENTS column show the entire comment. Or not.
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard
Ingvar,
Sorry you are having some difficulty with the comments. It does take a little getting used to, but it addresses complaints we had with the previous layout, that people couldn't get into a dialog. The extracted recent comments seem to allow people to quickly scan what's been posted since their last visit. No way I can see to handle it so it satisfies all desires at once. Appreciate the input, and welcome back.
David,
Thank you for your word of welcome.
The extracted recent comments allows a quick scan of what’s been posted since one’s last visit. However if the length and quality of your site’s comments are weighted appropriately, the present system is a worse fit, in my opinion. I always looked at the number of comments and if the needle had moved, then there was something more to read and I knew exactly where it was. Blocks of twenty comments at a time made things a little choppy getting to the new comments at the caboose when there were more than 60 comments, but increasing the comment block size to 100 has all but eliminated the bottleneck. I’m brought up short by “couldn’t get into a dialog.” Oodles of dialogs, it seems to me, have run through your comments section in the last 2 ½ years; I am not sure what to make of that as an issue. It would be disheartening to see the site’s technical environment engender short, goofy, and useless commentary.
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2012/05/03/california-seeks-middle-grou...
Pattie's cow share. My Sisters Farm.....
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2012/05/02/raw-milk-healthy-or-hazardous
Sylvia: Thanks for posting these links....
You're welcome Ron. Pattie and her two sisters run 'My Sisters Farm'. I had worked with Pattie's sister, who is a nurse practitioner, the other sister is a retired deputy. Three upstanding amazing women. They have the cleanest barn I have ever seen. I've watched Pattie milk numerous times. There is trust, honesty, an openness and a willingness to learn and to teach from all of them.
Dr. Cullor states “Things are not like the old days".
Well, the doctor has certainly got that right, yet he ignores and fails to mention other key factors related to immune depression, such as, vaccines, birth control hormones and the routine indiscretionary use of antibiotics, etc.
http://www.healthy.net/Health/Article/Do_Vaccines_Disable_the_Immune_Sys...
http://www.virginiahopkinstestkits.com/everywomanbc.html
Considering the above why does society persist in its relentless assault on organisms that are merely doing what is necessary in order to survive and maintain balance? It appears we are too involved with the details of a perceived problem and have failed to consider the situation as a whole, in other words we can’t see the forest for the trees.
Ken
"why does society persist in its relentless assault on organisms"
I don't think it is totally 'societies' fault. I believe that those who rule are pushing the buttons and like the rat in the lab, they are quietly forcing the population to bend to their ways, thus allowing those who rule to become more powerful and the populaces to become more servile. People only know what they are fed. The govt along with the media feeds people lies and distortions.
Yes, people should take responsibility for themselves. In a realistic world, that isn't going to happen any time soon. People are by nature slow to accept change, any kind of change. Even when they know something is harmful, they have great difficulty changing. Smoking is a good example. The healthier food movement is slowing growing. What is that saying? "When the student is ready, the teach will appear' or something like that.
In the piece cited by Sylvia above, the author Pauline Bartolone, in the first paragraph after the lede, writes: “In California, there are two main ways to get raw milk. You can buy it at a local health food store, or you can find an unlicensed cow owner willing to share the milk.” Whatever the way is out of this thicket of somnolent free people combined with power and control mad governeers and other assorted minor choruses, that second sentence of Bartolone’s says a lot. “Unlicensed.” “Share.” Shackle me, please. Liberty and freedom’s alien air is just that.
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard
David, great post. As a progressive entrepreneur, this information is greatly appreciated.
On a side, but related note, there was a great article in the most recent AdBuster's magazine (who put out the original call to Occupy Wall Street, last summer) about Islamic finance, comparing it to our American corporate capitalist banking system. Very interesting stuff:
http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters_blog/islamic_finance_and_possib...
Sorry... It looks like the article I linked to is not the one I actually read in the magazine last week. I think you have to get a hard copy to read the larger article, which is written by a former Wall Street trader (and Muslim) who was disenfranchise with the system and went on to create alternative finance systems based on Islamic principles (aka, usury is disallowed, investors must share the risk with the entrepreneur, money is only a measure of value and not a commodity unto itself, etc...)
I was invited to go head-to-head with Dr. Cullors of UC Davis on the Capital Public Radio broadcast yesterday.
It was as if....he and I were on different planets speaking different languages.
He attacked raw milk and gave no quarter. All raw milk was extremely danagerous....no crack in the door at all....not even a little. No acknowledgment of the state of CA standards for raw milk or a tip of the hat to the history of safe raw milk in CA....nothing....nada!! He then went on to cherry pick data and report on just the last year of reported illness from raw milk and pasteurized milk...just one year. He would not address the 70 deaths from pasteurized milk since 1973 or the 7 dead kids from allergic reactions to pasteurized milk or the fact that there have been zero deaths from raw milk collected and placed into the CDC database. He refused to address the physiology of why pasteurized milk is the most allergenic food in America or the fact that this information sits nakedly on the FDA website for food allergens.
Dr. Cullor was clearly sent from GOT MILK? to throw a grenade to the ignorant....to scare people any way he could.
What a travesty of science. Especially when the Chief Vet for CDFA has publically said that there are differences between raw milk and pasteurized milks....and the state acknowledges these significant differences.
Dr. Cullor is a lost cause and clearly his scientific liscence and objectivity is bought and paid for. I think we call these types "PhD Science-Whores". Distgusting at best....lying, stealing tax dollars, missleading the people and cheating the people for sure. He made statements that were completely unsupported by any data. A blatant lie!!! How can he sleep at night. Must be a nice fat paycheck.
When Got Milk? is desparate....they do stupid desparate things.
Mark
Mark - do you think your comments & replies helped to bring doubts to his comments/statements, or do you think the people that listened are too much of sheeple that it just went over their heads? I bet it was quite frustrating to be in that situation where the other person refuses to acknowledge anything that negates his position and of course, that is such a disservice to those listening, especially those that have not inkling of what real food is all about. Is there a copy of the broadcast available? Would love to listen to it! Thanks for hanging in there despite the "dead wall" participant!
Clueless.
MW
"How can he sleep at night? ' because he knows what he's doing and is doing it well = he's not a scientist, he's a shill, prostituting his reputation as a propagandist. He knew he was not there to be logical, nor fair ; he didn't care what you said as long as he got air-time
who said?
"Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent." That'd be one of Mister Anderson's pals .... ( for a while) the most successful national socialist of them all = Time Magazine's Man of the Year for 1938
Propaganda is right. I was telling my husband all about the goings on here at TCP blog. He said it sounds like a bunch of propaganda...the us vs them mentality, the conspiracy theories, and the fight for to "educate" the "victims": those uninformed consumers who are scared off by the big bad govt. boogeymen. These victims need to be educated so they can make an "informed choice". Sounds awfully a lot like another "fair and balanced" news source around here!
Kristen P.,
Everyone has a right to their own opinion here on TCP, but if you follow the happenings state by state, and the actions and reactions by all involved you start to see a problem.
Those of us who you say are conspiracy theorists (the new term is "informed individuals"), would love nothing better to be wrong about what we see happening in this country/world. Things are getting dramatically worse.
If you survived the 2008-09 supposed stock market crash unaffected and haven't seen a change for the worse on many fronts you must be living a charmed life.
I truly wish you and yours all the best, but if all this conspiracy crap comes true, you can NEVER say you were not warned!!!
Barney,
There is a difference between being an informed individual and being a conspiracy theorist.
Suggesting that free masons or the Rothschild family are the root of our ills is conspiracy theory. Pointing out that this is just how capitalism works is being an informed individual.
Trying to brand Mark McAfee as an intelligence agent trying to impose Codex Alimentarius on the raw milk movement (because his dad was once involved in intelligence gathering halfway around the globe several decades ago) is conspiracy theory. Suggesting that every outbreak is a conspiracy by the authorities is also conspiracy theory.
On the other hand, admitted that raw milk has safety issues that need to be constructively addressed is being an informed individual.
I agree with you about many of the problematic trends we see from state to state. Perhaps where we disagree is about the causes of these trends and the solution to the problems.
Bill,
I think you are confusing Barney for me.
But that said, I am glad to see that you researched the occult nature of Freemasonry as I suggested a few weeks ago and that you can confidently declare today that all of those internet rumors are just that - nonsensical rumors. Natural Law does not exist, people do not manipulate it to their advantage, and Freemasonry is just a social club. (Yeah, right.)
Bill, and please excuse my bluntness, you like to use the term "conspiracy theory" to mask your own ignorance. The term "conspiracy theory" is in and of itself a form of mind control, as that term can be attached to anyone outside the common paradigm in order to demonize their ideas. Instead of considering the information with an open mind, you place a knee-jerk label on that which challenges your belief system. If you looked at the information with open eyes, you'd see that what you call "conspiracy theory" is just a matter of pattern recognition. You may see it as "coincidence" that Mark has ties to the intelligence community, being the biggest, richest and most vocal proponent of raw milk regulation, but some of us see that he fits a PATTERN. It's always the biggest, richest corporations that advocate for more regulation, since they know that more regulation tends to squeeze out their smaller, less well-funded competition. And if Mark quacks like a duck, well, then he needs to prove that he's not a duck.
"It's always the biggest, richest corporations that advocate for more regulation"
Wrong, Lola. Consumers and others can and often do advocate for more regulation. Case in point... the municipal laws about milk purity passed in the early 20th century. These were not advocated by big business, but by urban women's leagues, and the American Association of Medical Milk Commissions (led by a medical doctor whose child was killed by dirty milk).
Interestingly, even though the farmers at first objected to these milk purity laws, they ended up expanding the market for fluid raw milk (this was before the rise of pasteurization) by increasing public confidence in the (previously) often-adulterated fluid milk sold to city dwellers by milk dealers and farmers.
Also, Lola, your view of socialism is profoundly misinformed. The most famous socialist in American history -- Eugene Victor Debs -- was a pacifist. Study the history of socialist movements in western liberal democracies before you go putting up provocative profile icons to make your point.
Besides, Name any major Christian church (the Catholic church, Pat Robertson, have your pick)... they have way more power than the Free Masons ever could.
Get a grip, Lola. You are a conspiracy theorist.
Bill,
You will never, ever, EVER be able to create significant and lasting change until you understand who controls this world and HOW it is controlled.
It is painfully obvious that you have never actually looked into these subjects with an open mind, but instead allow your thoughts to be controlled by political philosophers thoroughly entrenched in the status quo.
Freemasons aren't powerful? They are networked in with the Rosicrucians, OTO, Skull & Bones, Golden Dawn, Knights Templar, etc., and they are all networked in with the Bilderberg Group, Committe of 300, etc., who are networked in with the United Nations, etc. See how this works? It's a giant PYRAMID scheme, in the literal and figurative senses.
"Major Michael Aquino was an Army psyops specialist in Vietnam, where his unit specialized in drug-inducement, brainwashing, virus injection, brain implants, hypnosis, and use of electromagnetic fields and extremely low-frequency radio waves. After Vietnam, Aquino moved to San Francisco and founded the Temple of Set.
"Set is the ancient Egyptian name for Lucifer. Aquino was now a senior US Military Intelligence official. [2] He’d been given a Top Secret security clearance on June, 9, 1981. Less than a month later an Army intelligence memo revealed that Aquino’s Temple of Set was an off-shoot of Anton La Vey’s Church of Satan, also headquartered in San Francisco. Two other Set members were Willie Browning and Dennis Mann. Both were Army Intelligence officers.
"The Temple of Set was obsessed with military matters and political fascism. It was especially preoccupied with the Nazi Order of the Trapezoid. Aquino’s “official” job was history professor at Golden Gate College."
http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/03/illuminati-mind-control-the-report-fro...
As far as my "misinformed" view of socialism, I am still waiting for you to define what that word means to you. I asked you a few weeks ago, and as rabid as you are to replying to everything I have to say to correct all the misinformation I spew, you neglected to respond to this (of course). Socialism is defined as the government owning the means of production, isn't it (as Gordon defined it a few weeks ago)? Yet you use this term for everything from government ownership to voluntary social interaction. Voluntary social interaction is NOT socialism. Pray tell, in your "socialist" system, is participation voluntary? Because if it's not, my avatar is spot on.
(While we're on the subject, can you explain to me how your socialist ideology jives with you being an entrepreneur? Isn't entrepreneurism rooted in free market enterprise and private property ownership? Or are you okay with the government owning businesses, just not YOUR business?)
My God is better than your God, and my cheese too. And my conspiracy theories... I believe that 12 guys with box cutters, after learning to fly very complex modern airplanes, fooled the world's most sophisticated intelligence agencies and managed to bring down 3 skyscrapers with only 2 planes, using military grade thermate they developed in a cave in the dessert. But I'm glad our government is there to protect us from raw milk, frankenfoods, and bad religions.
Can we please refrain from personal attacks and belittling others on here? When and if I open my mouth and reveal my wackyness, there's no need for anyone to try making me feel bad for it. Let's try a little more civility. Pretty please?
Thank you.
Another case in point:
The campaign to require labelling of GMO foods, and/or restrict their use in the food supply.
You cannot sit there with a straight face and tell me this is big business trying to limit competition. Monsanto fought tooth and nail to defeat a ballot initiative in Oregon that would have required GMO labelling.
That being said, Lola... I would certainly agree with you that there is a history of big business trying to pass regulations to limit competition (read the book The Triumph of Conservatism, written by a socialist intellectual) but that is a far cry "its *always* the biggest richest corporations" (no, just sometimes...)
"You cannot sit there with a straight face and tell me this is big business trying to limit competition."
Nope, it's eugenics. We discussed this a few weeks ago, remember?
"but that is a far cry "its *always* the biggest richest corporations" (no, just sometimes...)"
Seriously, a pissing match on semantics? Do you really have nothing better to do? (The bigger issue is McAfee as PATTERN RECOGNITION. Do you really have nothing to say on that?)
Wrong, Watson. The Nazi Party was an outgrowth of the Freicorp -- a group of ultra-nationalist World War I veterans who organized to put down communist worker uprisings in Berlin in 1919-1921. (For the record, the American equivalent of the Freicorp is the American Legion, who was also involved with armed conflicts against organized labor at the same time period)
For true socialists (we are internationalists and anti-racist, not nationalists/racists like you and Hitler) the hero of that time and place is Rosa Luxemburg.
Educate yourself, Watson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg
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