Re:Crowdfunding the Ubuntu Edge will fail
by workbench on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @06:57AM
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Would it not be greatly dependant on how far the project gets in that initial funding. The projects that overshoot in the final days are generally ones that are 60-80% funded.
Re:Crowdfunding the Ubuntu Edge will fail
by 6d0debc071 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @07:33PM
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Yes - things that are U shaped would depend heavily on how great the initial and final funding is. In terms of $/t, rather than donations/t, it'd look more like - well assuming you got all your money on the first and last day you'd have two sheer cliffs with a perfectly flat plateau between them. But in reality it's likely to be somewhat smoother than that and the plateau is unlikely to the perfectly flat.
Assuming that the linear model holds until the last few days and then you get an upturn equal to the initial contributions, then you'd be looking at something like $22-23 million. Well, I'm just measuring it on my screen with my hands to get that, but that'd be my prediction based on what little I know of these sorts of fundraising thingies, assuming it behaves in the same manner as they did. ^^;
http://youtu.be/5zJdMRKBbLE
- Ah, there we go, at around 3 minutes in. U shaped distribution for Proj Eternity -
[Very good interview, by the way, if you haven't seen it and don't already know a bit about game companies. Really feel sorry for the guy.]
Anyhoo. Not that I'm saying this is a U shape, but I suspect you're going to need comparison to similar products to say too much of meaning.