Originally Posted by
acidfast7
at the whole Kickstarter concept.
let the market decide and the strong companies survive.
it's part of the evolutionary process that results in a good product. one could argue that the traditional process is conservative/iterative, but i argue that's for the better.
That is eventually what happens, but businesses need money/capital to get started, to run, and to expand. Startups can be funded by personal savings, bank loans, investments from friends and family, venture capital, private or public stock offerings, etc.. Kickstarter is another web-enabled mechanism for raising startup capital. Like any of the other methods, the potential investor must weight the relative risk/reward and decide.