I started out thinking that Kickstarter was a publishing platform for VC-by-association 'groups', where one enters a temporary group by pledge. And that it wasn

I started out thinking that Kickstarter was a publishing platform for VC-by-association 'groups', where one enters a temporary group by pledge. And that it wasn't really even that far, the least developed of the ones I looked at were fully fleshed out designs that had never been held by anyone. I still don't know how to give others this skeptical judgement, publishing that one or two pages is a skill almost entirely unrelated to producing a decent product, especially as Kickstarter's few successes get well covered and don't do much more marketing.