Lack Of Adult Supervision
Lack Of Adult Supervision
A fairly detailed examination of Kickstarter's biggest debacle to date, the Zano drone.
In which all of the major protagonists absolve themselves from responsibility.
Editor in Chief Michael Gorman defended Engadget’s choice to me by noting that its criteria are innovation, design, market appeal, and functionality, “meaning what are the device’s capabilities, not that we have seen it performing all these functions in person.”
Strickler says that he has read every email from disgruntled Zano backers, and was often surprised by what he read. “[There’s] seemingly some belief that we require creators to mail us their single prototype, that we spend a week play-testing it and mail it back to them,” he says. “We have these rules for no photo-realistic renderings…but practically speaking, those are hard things to enforce. The system is reliant on backers to make a decision.”
While Kickstarter does have some rules — the word “pre-order” is particularly taboo — the premise of the platform, he says, is that the crowd decides which projects get funded and which do not. “The worlds of technology and design have the lowest [funding] success rates of any on Kickstarter, somewhere in the 20% range,” says Strickler. “Also the system allows for backers to come to us…and say, hey, we think there’s something weird happening here, check it out.”
via Kam-Yung Soh
https://medium.com/kickstarter/how-zano-raised-millions-on-kickstarter-and-left-backers-with-nearly-nothing-85c0abe4a6cb#.3jwinrre1
A fairly detailed examination of Kickstarter's biggest debacle to date, the Zano drone.
In which all of the major protagonists absolve themselves from responsibility.
Editor in Chief Michael Gorman defended Engadget’s choice to me by noting that its criteria are innovation, design, market appeal, and functionality, “meaning what are the device’s capabilities, not that we have seen it performing all these functions in person.”
Strickler says that he has read every email from disgruntled Zano backers, and was often surprised by what he read. “[There’s] seemingly some belief that we require creators to mail us their single prototype, that we spend a week play-testing it and mail it back to them,” he says. “We have these rules for no photo-realistic renderings…but practically speaking, those are hard things to enforce. The system is reliant on backers to make a decision.”
While Kickstarter does have some rules — the word “pre-order” is particularly taboo — the premise of the platform, he says, is that the crowd decides which projects get funded and which do not. “The worlds of technology and design have the lowest [funding] success rates of any on Kickstarter, somewhere in the 20% range,” says Strickler. “Also the system allows for backers to come to us…and say, hey, we think there’s something weird happening here, check it out.”
via Kam-Yung Soh
https://medium.com/kickstarter/how-zano-raised-millions-on-kickstarter-and-left-backers-with-nearly-nothing-85c0abe4a6cb#.3jwinrre1
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