Amazon’s Plan to Build a Kickstarter Knockoff Turned Into a Site That Helps Startups Sell Products Posted by June 29, 2016 Leave a comment on Amazon’s Plan to Build a Kickstarter Knockoff Turned Into a Site That Helps Startups Sell Products ‘What Amazon knows a lot about is going to retail, and we continued to hear that that’s a big problem for startups,’ Launchpad’s senior marketing manager said.