How the Smartest Artists Protect Their Ideas (and Get Paid)

Kickstarter is Yancey Strickler's former company — its pioneering model of audiences funding creators directly is the precursor to Patreon and Substack, providing context for his post-Kickstarter Artist Corporation (A-Corp) framework.

LegalZoom represents the problem — standardized operating agreements that don't account for creator-specific IP holding structures or LP models — used as contrast to show why creators need deliberate legal architecture, not off-the-shelf templates.

Architect of the LP Model framework — explains Limited Partnership structures for creators, the LPA agreement, IP holding companies, and why legal structure is the difference between creators who build wealth and those who don't.

Former CEO of Kickstarter who built the Artist Corporation (A-Corp) model — separating the IP-holding entity from the operating entity so artists own their creative assets cleanly regardless of what happens to the business.