Crowdfunding tech can serve backers poorly, even when the thing gets made<article>
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Crowdfunding has always been risky, but several recent high-profile failures, delays, and significant shifts—including the
CST-01 smartwatch, the Zano palm-sized drone, the Coolest Cooler, and the Glowforge laser cutter—reveal how fragile manufacturing-backed campaigns really are.</p><p>
If your interest in a project isn’t so much “I want this thing to exist in the world” as it is “I want to place an early order,” it’s certainly wiser to wait until hardware products launch on the open market. But that seems especially so for projects that raise hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3067941/tech-events-dupe/crowdfunding-tech-can-serve-backers-poorly-even-when-the-thing-gets-made.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Crowdfunding tech can serve backers poorly, even when the thing gets made
