Who's going to give you a 15k loan for a first product based on a shitty marketing video? It's not 2000 anymore.
In the UK the Government has an excellent loan scheme for small business right now. 6.2% over 5 years with 1 year capital break. You can theoretically get up to $29k if you are a pair. Though you do need a little more than a marketing video, like a functional business plan. But it's not like the banks.
If you have $30k worth of pre-orders on Amazon. Anyone. Bank Of America, Friends and Family, An Angel VC.
Friends and family
Re:Kicktrolling
by schenecstasy on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @10:06AM
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and fools
Others have written about having users dispute the charge after the funding was complete and wrecking the goal.
Kickstarter is interesting in some ways, but it is a bad deal for a great many kinds of projects. "Send a satellite to space" great for kickstarter. "We are knocking off this product know one knew was already on amazon" great for kickstarter. But most products would do better selling on Amazon using a "This product will be released on X Date" because the commissions are lower, and if you are only doing $25k for a tangible thing, you can probably get the $15k loan to do it for a lot less, and you will still know how many units you sold before you have to deliver them.
If Kickstarter is going to take such a large percentage they need to do more to prevent this kind of thing from happening.