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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.
Yeah, that.
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.
That seems like what might be a more attractive thing to do / better pay off, without a lot of work.
> 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
Aren't these platforms meant to protect against this kind of scam?
An airplane can reduce the risk of falling down, but if you want to be protected(!) against falling down from the sky you shouldn't enter a big piece of metal that lifts off from the ground.
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.
I can't recall a lot of the other stuff you could get away with, including have no proof of concepts and just using renders and being fully funded already and such, but I had to unsubscribe from their emails it was so disgusting. You can tell if you look at their site overtime which kinds of things just stay up forever or how they instantly are over the goal and whatnot. One item stayed up for like 8 months, constantly over the goal.
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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.
You're entirely correct. I have not, however, seen anything so critical that the world would suffer if it did not come to fruition. We're no worse off if that smart water bottle never gets made. The environment might even be better for it.
Maybe you'd agree with that. I just never was a fan of the "oh, it's those people who are doing it wrong" as we ourselves indulge in a different set of the same thing.
Aren't these platforms meant to protect against this kind of scam?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
If it was "moved" then that might mean the $460k are included in the $806k. Don't ask me how that "moving" could be done, but they explicitely said "move" and explicitely said that it collected $800k altogether. That would be surprising if it actually made the sum of both.