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Re:Why 84% of Kickstarter's top projects shipped late by casca on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @11:32AM (#4938207)
If they didn't have so much money then the reason would have been that they were strapped for capital.

The nature of successful Kickstarter projects is that they are are solving hard problems. Hard problems are very difficult to estimate and the cost of being wrong on your time estimate is very low. So why would anyone not just provide an optimistic delivery date?

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Re:Why 84% of Kickstarter's top projects shipped late by michaelbuckbee on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @11:43AM (#4938272)
Kickstarter is an interesting mix of promotion and distribution. Projects are seeking not just money, but to find an audience of evangelists and early adopters for their products.

Delivery on time (by providing realistic estimates) can help make sure that people don't turn on the project and start generating negative publicity about the project.

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Re:Why 84% of Kickstarter's top projects shipped late by tjic on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @02:35PM (#4939136)
> The nature of successful Kickstarter projects is that they are are solving hard problems.

Not sure I agree with that.

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