This is a fascinating question. We optimized our design to be a "simpler" Kickstarter - however, I don't believe the changes were material enough to really shif

This is a fascinating question. We optimized our design to be a "simpler" Kickstarter - however, I don't believe the changes were material enough to really shift things more that 5-10% in either direction. While we did lose out on the internal momentum that Kickstarter brings to projects, most of the early press missed that fact that we weren't on Kickstarter. Some actually reported us as a Kickstarter project.