You Have the Cash — Now What? Shopstarter Helps Funded Kickstarters

The X-Cube, above, is a 3D-printed cube funded through a Kickstarter campaign.

Even though the cube was successfully funded, the marketing campaign isn't over. The creator listed it on Shopstarter, a startup positioning itself as the next step after Kickstarter. Shopstarter is designed as a platform for project creators to manage backers and pre-orders after their Kickstarter funding periods have ended.

"Once you finish crowdfunding, there's not much after that from Kickstarter's point of view," said Alex Kennberg, who co-founded Shopstarter with Brian Park in January.