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Graduating from there usually means you are set and don't need to scam anyone for a _very_ comfortable life.
SSE Student? One of the two SSE-programs is arguably the hardest program to get into in Sweden. Sometimes the Karolinska medical school has a higher entry requirement. Graduating from there usually means you are set and don't need to scam anyone for a _very_ comfortable life.
Waiting to pay for a product until it actually exists won't kill you.
It will, metaphorically, if a lack of funding will kill the product (or prevent it from ever being made). Crowdfunding is a financing option, complete with the part where the financiers are exposed to risk.
> and raised in total $800.000 million from approximately 5,000 backers from around the world. I assume this is a typo? Or did a blanket raise almost a billion dollars?
>Update: A previous version of this article said the Zen blanket raised $1,2 millions, the amount they did raise was $800.000.
> and raised in total $800.000 million from approximately 5,000 backers from around the world. I assume this is a typo? Or did a blanket raise almost a billion dollars?
I get a lot of ads on Instagram to products that lead you to Kickstarter/Indiegogo sites.. and they seem to always have 6-digit dollar amounts in backing. What I've read is, that's also fake, like asking your friend to bid on your auction on eBay, they just make a second account, pretend to back the product, and poof, "See, it's a popular product!". Do the platforms get a percentage from each backing? If so, we can s…
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The ones I hear talking about their sponsoring, is that they know full well. I hear phrasing such as "shooting some money their way in case they succeed" and "it's an interesting project, let's hope for the best".
It's pretty damn stupid, know it or not.
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-Norwegian here - the Scandinavian countries in general have _very_ strong laws protecting the privacy of all citizens. A consequence of this is that defendants in criminal cases are very rarely named by the media until convicted, if even then.
In Sweden, this is not a consequence of any law, but by common journalistic practices. Media are protected by constitutional writings that extend very far in terms of the sender's rights to publish. However, Swedish media also has a long tradition of keeping themselves to de facto standards when it comes to things such as identifying individuals. It would have been _very_ weird to see this person named on Breakit.
SSE Student? One of the two SSE-programs is arguably the hardest program to get into in Sweden. Sometimes the Karolinska medical school has a higher entry requirement. Graduating from there usually means you are set and don't need to scam anyone for a _very_ comfortable life.
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The ones I hear talking about their sponsoring, is that they know full well. I hear phrasing such as "shooting some money their way in case they succeed" and "it's an interesting project, let's hope for the best".
It's pretty damn stupid, know it or not.
> and raised in total $800.000 million from approximately 5,000 backers from around the world. I assume this is a typo? Or did a blanket raise almost a billion dollars?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/322231573/zen-blanket-t... ==> SEK 4,149,969 or $460,4330 USD https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zen-blanket-the-blanket-f... ==>$806,268 so in total $1,266,728