Crowdfunding Graves
Staff river for this beat. Empty forums do not rank. These pages do.
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The Coolest Cooler, and the $20 apology.
Kickstarter's party cooler raised $13 million. Thousands of backers never got the party.
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Zano: a palm-sized drone and a 13,000-word autopsy.
Europe's biggest Kickstarter hardware hit shipped a handful of units. Kickstarter paid a reporter to find out why.
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Lily took $34 million in pre-orders. The drone stayed on the table.
Not a Kickstarter page — a viral video and a checkout. Same cemetery.
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The laser razor Kickstarter would not cash.
$4 million in pledges. No working prototype the platform would accept. Then Indiegogo.