Kickstarter on CNN Money

[wraith808]

An interesting article on CNN Money entitled "Why 84% of Kickstarter's top projects shipped late". 

If you pledged cash for a crowdfunded product, be prepared to be very, very patient: A CNNMoney examination of the top 50 most-funded projects on Kickstarter found that 84% missed their target delivery dates.

More at link.

Most interesting, at least to me, was the interactive infographic.

[tomos]

I think the problem for the *most* funded projects is that they usually havent expected such support, and they then have to supply whatever was promised to the unexpectedly large amount of people...

[wraith808]

I think the problem for the *most* funded projects is that they usually havent expected such support, and they then have to supply whatever was promised to the unexpectedly large amount of people...

-tomos (December 19, 2012, 04:09 AM)

That seems pretty obvious to *me*.  But for some reason, it seems to escape the reasoning of most.

[tomos]

^ we're just too logical wraith




... of course it could well be that CNN see that too but just want to have a go