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So if I want to have a device without doing all the work of getting it built, I can just put together a Kickstarter and then refund everyone once the knockoff i

• pbhjpbhj 10y ago
  Or buy the clones from the copier at the lower price, pass them on to your backers and profit! What could possibly go wrong!?! Or - product-ception - create a product, have it ready to sell, Kickstarter it at a higher price; be both sides of the market.
  • ansgri 10y ago
    create a product, have it ready to sell, Kickstarter it at a higher price; be both sides of the market. This is what successful research groups do: get an industrial customer, invent some tech in the process (but you won't have neither time nor desire to do the boring work of academic writing), and when the project is complete, get some funding for the results you already have. Everybody's happy, just don't forget to negotiate rights to retain the basic (not application-specific) technology.