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How many projects shipped backer rewards within the their estimated window?

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• technotony 13y ago
  Apparently 75% of projects are late, but 94% deliver eventually. Lateness is worse for projects that significantly overshoot their goal.
  • saraid216 13y ago
    Stretch goals are easily one of the worst norms about crowdfunding sites. It's really hard not to do them, because it feels like you're turning down free money... but that's not what's happening. The rise of small companies handling logistics on behalf of project owners after a successful funding, on the other hand, is a really great thing. I've experienced about 3 different companies (I'd have to dig through my email to get the actual names) and they've generally been competently handled. The more projects that take advantage of these, the better. What I haven't seen (though that might just be me not looking) is project owners receiving good, professional advice about what to offer as rewards. Rewards need to be almost infinitely scalable and take into account snail-mail shipping costs and packaging time and effort, or you're effectively throwing away all the money you received.