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Don't get me wrong. I'm disappointed in Oculus too, and I'd be even more disappointed if I'd actually invested in them. I'm just saying that people need to lea
by avar 13y ago
Don't get me wrong. I'm disappointed in Oculus too, and I'd be even more disappointed if I'd actually invested in them.
I'm just saying that people need to learn the hard lesson that when they're "investing" in something like Kickstarter they're not actually "investing" in the general sense. They're making a donation with little or no string attached, at best it's a "you give us money and we send you some doodad in the mail" investment.
So they're effectively donating money with no string attached.
So if you donated money to the company thinking they were going to do X and they actually do Y they can and will fuck you over if they think they can make more money doing Y than they can doing X, accounting for all the alienation from their existing customers from doing not doing X.
So please everyone, if you want to invest in something and you want to have the expectations of an investor make sure you're actually investing, not just donating.
- rhizome 13y agowhen they're "investing" in something like Kickstarter they're not actually "investing" in the general sense I'd say they are only investing in the general sense, but not the specific one. Because, as we've seen with the Kickstarter failures and flake-outs, regardless of the HN-conventional definition of the word, the donors are certainly and legitimately invested.