Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a prototype and ended in disaster
I don't get it; Kickstarter isn't a store. I personally never expect anything to come through and get it in the mail when I back a Kickstarter project. I <i>might</i> get something, but it isn't a promise.<p>Why is it a shock that Kickstarter projects fail? No one is shocked when VC backed companies fail, and these projects are just as likely (if not more likely) to fail. There's no more due diligence than watching a video and reading over some text frequently in funding a project.<p>Even projects with competent people in well funded companies fail all the time and get shut down (see Google Buzz, Google Health, etc). There is no such thing as a promise that things will succeed.<p>I wish Kickstarter would put big lettering near the 'support' button that says in big red letters, "Kickstarter is not a store"