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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by Roritharr on Monday April 30, 2012 @10:24AM (#3909357)
Finally a story that doesn't repeat the notion of "if you havent executed upon your idea in two years, you should think of something else".
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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by Jun8 on Monday April 30, 2012 @12:33PM (#3909948)
Agree, but they were also very lucky that some other team didn't come up with the idea and executed during that time.
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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by shawnc on Monday April 30, 2012 @12:51PM (#3910052)
As I understood it IndieGoGo launched before Kickstarter. I think the luck lands more in the realm of positive press early on - something IndieGoGo didn't get the same amount of. And honestly - that has to do with (IMO) the polish Kickstarter had to it when it launched.
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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by arkitaip on Monday April 30, 2012 @11:12AM (#3909575)
How about 3 years? Because that's how many years Kickstarter has existed.
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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by SoftwareMaven on Monday April 30, 2012 @11:40AM (#3909669)
That's how many years they've been live. Their ideas and initial work go back beyond that.
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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by wpietri on Monday April 30, 2012 @12:23PM (#3909882)
The web is too full of mutant versions for me to easily find the original quote, but I've always loved the line "It took me 20 years to become an overnight success."
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