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His proposal, alex was ready to start on the most important component of a kick starter campaign, the video. >> a good video is really important. we went to a studio with good lighting. we hired someone who had good camera equipment. we spent a lot of time writing on a script and we did several takes and we made sure we had a video that looked really good. >> a successful campaign is the entrepreneur's personal story. for alex, when he was laid off as a lab tech at the height of the recession, he seized the opportunity to start his unusual business. >> jellyfish can't go in a regular fish tank...

Which came out to a total of $364,600. >> they call it crowd funding. and for anyone who has had trouble finding the money to seed a new business, or find a new product idea, it's at the leading edge of a new world of nontraditional funding options for entrepreneurs. >> basically, these people are, you know, giving us maybe like 100 bucks apiece. and it really is more like a donation. >> there are tons of crowd funding websites out there. and they all work a little differently. but the basic premise of all crowd funding is to get financial support for a project or business by pooling money fro...

>> in this week's "connection" one internet company is helping people turn ideas into reality. a website called kick starter, a place to go if you have an idea but need the bucks. deborah feyerick reports. >> reporter: got a good idea? yancy strictler has an idea for your idea. >> take that project, piece of art, record, put it out to the world and let them have a say versus some boardroom, some businessman. >> reporter: in this small office on the lower east side you won't find a boardroom, just strictler and two dozen employees the heart and soul of an internet company called kickstarter. fu...

educator in chief that came out today. he provided a kind of world view, almost a historical interpretation of the causes and consequences of the arab spring. he began in the beginning with tunisia and moved forward. he tried to present a way in which he saw america's interests and values as squarely aligned with this arab revolution. he touched on the places that we don't like, the regimes we don't like that are having trouble dealing with people. tehran, damascus. he also talked about bahrain an yemen. but you are right, of course, he didn't talk about the 800-pound gorilla that is...

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