Re:Failed many times before raising $13M on Kickstarter
by UVB-76 on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:08AM
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This is just a dispute over terminology, but to succeed is to achieve an aim or purpose; unless your aim is simply to raise money, you haven't achieved success at that stage.
Even if, for the sake of argument, we take your definition of success as simply a positive event, I would dispute the implication that raising $13m in this manner is necessarily a positive event.
The inventor hasn't accrued $13m with no strings attached; he has accepted the money in lieu of an obligation to deliver product. Whether entering into such an exchange is a "positive event" or not for the inventor depends on whether he can uphold his end of the bargain.
And you're confusing a single event with the entire process of running a project. The fact is raising money is a success, because a success is simply a positive event. You need a lot of them to successfully complete a project. Equally, failure is an event - you can have lots of failures and still succeed.