Reply To: Beyond the Monolith? Confusion!?!

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Limberger, you’ve rather missed my point and proved it so obviously I’ve not been clear. There’s no need for the sarcasm.

I ‘m not getting at the amount he’s trying to raise. What bothers me is the choice of medium. Kickstarter allows (and until it’s proven in court otherwise) in this instance, to load all the risk on the customer (us).

In a traditional business, as you say you need capital to simply exist and that comes from clients. My own company has much the same cost. It ensures we have to produce a good product, to a timetable to get paid. If we don’t, we lose customers and go out of business.

Perhaps I am a grumpy old fart but I like the laws surrounding the sale of goods act. I like the banking code that stops me running off with investors money that they trust me with. I like knowing that when we open our doors and a chap comes in today to ask for the building diagrams that he will get it to a legally recognised and binding contract – and then, on delivery of product we get paid. Not before.