Comment Re:Insurance (Score 1) 217
The rewards offered on kickstarter are pitiful given the risk to the capital, and complete lack of upside if the product is successful.
If someone is Kickstarting something that you think want to be made, but isn't going to be made otherwise, then the reward can be perfectly sufficient. Kickstarting isn't about becoming an investor in businesses (there are other platforms for that), nor is it a pre-order marketplace. It does what is says it does, and 90%+ of the bitching I hear about it is people who think it is something it clearly isn't.