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Now this is something we'd want to watch.

Any guy with a hankering for potato salad can get funded on Kickstarter. For these independent magazines, it's the daily grind of keeping a print publication afloat after the campaign is over that's the real challenge.

A sister publication to Cat Fancy, this is not.

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Last year, we noticed a trend of innovative fashion brands finding success with a little help from popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter. One menswear company raised a whopping $400,000 to get off the ground and since then, a sweatshirt line raised over $1 million from the site's pool of benefactors. Of course, Kickstarter is home to a wide variety of projects--and recently we've noticed another segment of the fashion industry using it as an outside-the-box funding method: magazines.

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As we've detailed in this comprehensive guide, online crowdfunding site Kickstarter can be a great way to fund a fledgling fashion brand. The site is