$4,000 pledged!!!

Hi Backers,

I cannot believe my eyes when I woke up this morning! Just 4 days since my last update, we raised another $2,000. And that makes up for a total amount of $4,000 or two-third of our funding goal.

Please keep in mind that we actually need $7,000 to cover the full amount required for our proposed experiment. We budgeted it at $6,000 by including the extra $1,500 grant from the Animal Superpower Challenge since Experiment.com is using the All or Nothing funding model. Without the grant, we will need to raise $7,700 (including 5% platform fee and 3% transaction fee) to fully bridge our budget gap. And that's the reason why the number of backers is so important to us! We will only get the extra $1,500 grant if we're the project with the most backers among the 20 projects in the Challenge by 4/22.

With that said, since we're still 19 days away from the end of this crowdfunding campaign, I think we're doing well for the amount of funding that we have raised so far. Let's focus on increasing the number of backers from now to 4/22. If each of you can just recruit two more friends to support our project by making a small donation, it's very likely that we will win this grant! Small donations (even $1) make big difference in terms of winning the grant!!

Now, Animal Superpower Challenge status update... As I'm writing this, we're still #3, with 136 backers, which is 50% increase comparing to last Thursday. Thanks to family and friends working hard for the outreach, give yourselves a round of applause, you deserved it. And we're closing up to #2 (156 backers). The #1 project still has an edge on the challenge, leading with 206 backers. However, like I said, we can easily surpass them if each of you secure two recruits. :)

Last but not least, a big special shout out to Mr. York Chen, who made the largest single donation ($1,000) so far!! Words cannot express our gratitude to Mr. Chen!

Until next time~

Bill