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szopin	2015-11-20 , 21:38
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Originally Posted by Copernicus

Well, yes, except that there's nothing strange about it. Dave has been insisting that reaching 100% of a crowdfunding goal means that the crowdfunded project should have enough funds to be completed. I'm arguing that for the tablet project (and, in fact, most crowdfunded projects) this is not the case; in fact, most projects need additional funding from elsewhere in order to succeed.

Worse, most projects work at 100%, but fail when they reach 10k%, what they could produce at a desk hand-crafting works for 100-1000 pieces, when they get orders for 100 thousand they need to hire mass producing factory and it turns out that their designs are not good for mass producing (not that it is relevant to jolla tablet, but it's more complicated than just counting the % points and dollars, extra complexity of mass producing costs a lot), ask Dirk, he pulled it off in a way

edit: can't find the source I read originally, but recent KS failure Zano copters was blamed on the fact they could ship the planned 500-1000 items as they planned to manufacture them DIY in the kitchen, when they got few million dollars in backing and 15k orders they needed to change tactic and reinvent the wheel to allow mass producing in a factory or ship their drones for 5 years+, after shipping 600 drones they folded (similarities with jolla tablet totally coincidental)

edit2: Oh and to just rub it in, it was: Europe's most successful Kickstarter campaign ever

Last edited by szopin; 2015-11-20 at 22:01.