Data on Crowd funding?
prof_braino
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Please contribute your data on crowdfund projects and participation.
Do you participate?
How much to you spend?
What's the most you risked?
Did you recieve the item?
Do you participate?
How much to you spend?
What's the most you risked?
Did you recieve the item?
Comments
Kickstarter:
In progess:
Carbon Fiber PLA
Programmable Capacitor
SilverAir
Funded Not recieved:
Parallella
FOIA Machine
Funded recieved:
Star Trek Continues Webseries
STEMbot1
PocketBands
Makeblock
Tactical Whistle
Plasma Jet Electric Thrusters
Mediated Touch
BORA The Binary Explorer Board
Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit
Funding Unsuccessful:
Jet Vest
Indegogo:
Funded not recieved:
MuCamera
Mu Camera and Parallela are the two most expensive items funded. Both are delayed but are still expected to be produced.
Most other items are $25 or less.
Only the Jet Vest was unsuccessful, in retrospect this is probably a good thing.
So my feeling is these projects are getting weirder and weirder. Not even sure if Joseph Kony is alive. Does anybody want to fund crowdsourcing a 3 month vacation to Hawaii for me? I'll let you read my Blog of the trip.
And in another article, young atheletes that are going pro can now sell futures in their career and collect their true earning potential up front, while you and I have to wait to see if they are not injured, don't end up in drug rehab, or have a cheating scandal to see how our investment in them matures.
It is a P.T. Barnum world.
I did buy a Cubieboard via crowdsource and am very happy with it. Now if I can just stop the crowdsource email that is a result of it, I'd be very happy.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/joseph-kony-adventure-show-uganda
The most I've ever funded is $75, and to a friend. It really didn't matter if I got anything or not. I don't recall not getting the swag they promised, though some of the projects have required lengthy 3-4+ month development, and not all are released yet.
So far I have put 100 euros into the Parallela. Nothing to show so far...
I put some tens of euros into the Espruino. I don't have an Espruino hardware yet but I do have the JS interpreter, open sourced as promised, which is what I really wanted.
Are we suckers for putting our money up for such things?
Maybe.
Are we more or less suckers for betting on that rather than horses or football results or lottery tickets?
Don't forget, Silicon valley runs on venture capital. 90% of the investments turn to dust.
Every venture has a risk. If nobody ever took a risk nothing would ever happen.
Can you afford to play or not?
On backed, funded, yet to be delivered (March 2013 on original campaign)
Microprocessor about the cost and size of a pack of gum - small, inexpensive Arduino boards intended for my 4-H robotics kids. Still not delivered. The campaign reached about 24 times it's original small goal. The poor girl has been overwhelmed and also had some manufacturing mishaps. Well intended, unlucky, no bad feelings.
Since then, I've run out of venture capital!
Actually, I have 3 of them...
So far I've backed 45 projects.
Some of them haven't succeeded in funding, but that is as expected.
The first project I backed was the P112 Single-board Computer
(Z180 based) That arrived less than a month ago, nearly a year after originally promised. Not finished soldering it, yet...
The 3Doodler though, arrived almost on date.
The most expensive is probably the ONDU pinhole camera(I went for the $200 'Sliding box' model)
A few has been 'feel good' such as a woman who needed to buy a new tent to sell cookies from, or the Mad Bomber brewery(EX-EOD crew... )
A couple are more 'practical' such as the ThriftyVac, a hand-operated vacuum-packaging system that uses ordinary zip-loc bags.
The most anticipated is the 'Digger Omnibus edition', an 800+ pages B/W comic.
The most beautiful is probably the Bugatti Reve Bleu recreation project. Man, that's a sweet-looking plane!
My KS Profile with links to all the projects I have backed:
http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1446610741