11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels, & scrapped designs

Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by poundy on Monday April 30, 2012 @10:54AM (#3909491)

I can't believe it took them 11+ years. It felt like a recent startup.

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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by dmix on Monday April 30, 2012 @10:56AM (#3909503)

Having an idea for a startup for 8 years != working on a startup for 8 years.

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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by untog on Monday April 30, 2012 @10:59AM (#3909518)

I can totally believe it- it's just that we're repeatedly sold stories about startups that get hockey stick growth two days after launch.

I remember seeing an interview with the founder of Pinterest, who was slightly annoyed at the coverage they'd been getting- they had been working on it since 2008, but everyone was talking about it as if it had just launched.

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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by dclowd9901 on Monday April 30, 2012 @11:12AM (#3909578)

If you dig into Crunchbase, it seems like a common theme is at least two years from inception to explosion.

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Re:11+ Years of Kickstarter: MySpace widgets, missing vowels... by egypturnash on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @02:18AM (#3913262)

How many of those hockey-stick startups have actually stuck around? How many of them had their graph of Actual Time In Use fall off as sharply as their initial userbase blew up?

I mean, besides G+. </snark>

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