The ugly afterlife of crowdfunding projects that never ship and never end. The public life-cycle of a Kickstarter rarely ends in tragedy.
Often, if a Kickstarter manages to get covered by the media before its funding round end, or even starts, it can meet its goal within days, and superfluous funds continue to roll in over the next few weeks. By the time its crowdfunding stage closes, the creators, backers, and media alike are excited and proud to have ushered this new project so quickly to a place of prosperity, eager for it to continue to grow.
Plenty of projects manage to deliver the goods, even if the timeline slides a bit. That was the case with Tim Schafer's Kickstarter game Broken Age. If creators miss deadlines, backers typically continue to receive updates via e-mail and the Kickstarter page. A project can go off the rails and fail even after its funding succeeds for a number of reasons. Why This Bestselling Author Decided To Start Self-Publishing. Trending on Related Blogs Nintendo Just Announced a New 3DS.
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On the left are the largest college majors; to the right are the most common professions. To see broad fields like "Sciences" and "Humanities", see the edited version of this page. The width of each stream shows how many people with that major are in that field. (The color shows whether that's more or fewer people than expected based on how big the major is: hover over to see just how many more it is.) You surely see that the lines are too small to understand in most cases: to actually see what's going on with a particular field or job, click on a box and the chart will filter down to just the people who either majored in the field, or ended up employed in the job. You might also like my visualization of changing college degrees over time.
Made by Ben Schmidt using D3; heavily reusing code from here. Careers after the college degree. Ben Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, was curious about careers after college degrees, so he used a quick Sankey diagram to look at data from the American Community Survey.
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They ended up going with Warner Bros owned/backed Flixster. So for me I have an apple TV and a Roku. Flixster doesn't support appleTV or airplay, the Flixster channel for the Roku will crash anytime you try to watch anything. Flixster also will not allow you to watch the movie on a computer that has dual monitors. " The studio will allow you to buy a better experience on a non-Flixster service, send them the bill, and get a refund (but only if you complain first). There's a copy of the movie on The Pirate Bay with more than 11,000 seeders, which means that this Flixster business is doing precisely nothing to deter piracy, and is only serving to alienate megafans who voluntarily donated money to see this movie made, and to subject the studio itself to potential millions in administrative costs and refunds to investors who were forced into the retail channels.
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Pourtant, n'était-ce pas cet iPhone qui semblait avoir perdu de sa "coolitude" ces derniers temps ? Portant sur un échantillon de 5 200 adolescents, la dernière étude de Piper Jaffray laisse entendre que l’iPhone est actuellement le smartphone le plus en vogue chez les jeunes, qu’importe ce qu’a pu en dire Buzz Marketing Group en janvier dernier. Images.politico.com/global/2013/03/27/gsg_study_white_paper_business_and_politics_do_they_mix.html. Images.politico.com/global/2013/03/27/gsg_study_infographic_business_and_politics_do_they_mix.html.
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