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If they anticipate turning a profit, why should I donate to them instead of investing in them or Kickstarting them? Why would I give them money to get... absolu
by vertex-four 12y ago
If they anticipate turning a profit, why should I donate to them instead of investing in them or Kickstarting them? Why would I give them money to get... absolutely nothing out of it, but to make them richer?
- AnthonyMouse 12y agoFor the same reasons that you might donate time or money to anything. Why should you tutor some disadvantaged kid for free without having an agreement that you get a percentage of future earnings? Why pay taxes or vote for the continued existence of taxes? Because donors turning a profit isn't the point. Most startups fail. Getting a percentage of something which is probably going to turn out worthless is less important than shifting the ecosystem away from one in which promising startups are destroyed by trolls.