You realize that Kickstarter isn’t an investment platform, right? It is, at best, a patron program that lets people donate money in order to support projects that they find interesting. And depending on the project (and the amount of your donation), you MIGHT get something back from your donation. But the key word there is donation. Not investment. What you do NOT get by backing a Kickstarter is any kind of equity in the company.
I’ve seen a few people make comparisons to the Flickr/Yahoo acquisition… And if I’m being honest? I really don’t recall Yahoo “ruining” Flickr after acquiring them. Yes, Flickr had a huge redesign… Last year? (And I actually like the redesign, personally). But that was YEARS after being acquired by Yahoo. I was under the impression that Yahoo pretty much ignored Flickr for quite some time after the acquisition, and let them do their own thing.
