Most Kickstarter Projects Fail to Deliver on Time

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413382,00.asp

by memoryfailure • 14 years ago

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alenox• 14 years ago

...and water is wet. In a kickstarter project, features and staff are constrained. The only thing left to play with is schedule.

dkhenry• 14 years ago

The article this article quotes was on HN yesterday [1]. It was Baloney then its baloney now. CNNMoney came to faulty conclusions , and pcmag appears to have extrapolated those faulty conclusions, CNN Money stated that most of the _top_ projects were late. pcmag using that article as a reference now says _most_ projects fail to deliver on time. Big difference in those two statements.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4937929

tobylane• 14 years ago

I started out thinking that Kickstarter was a publishing platform for VC-by-association 'groups', where one enters a temporary group by pledge. And that it wasn't really even that far, the least developed of the ones I looked at were fully fleshed out designs that had never been held by anyone.

I still don't know how to give others this skeptical judgement, publishing that one or two pages is a skill almost entirely unrelated to producing a decent product, especially as Kickstarter's few successes get well covered and don't do much more marketing.

nooneelse• 14 years ago

What percentage of traditionally funded ventures of a similar type ship on time according to the the initial plan? Isn't knowing that vital to understanding the results of this study.

Most Kickstarter Projects Fail to Deliver on Time

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