Comments on: How to succeed on Kickstarter: Find 35 people and ask for less than $9,000?

By: Makeshift Alpha

Makeshift Alpha — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:34:25 +0000

So the conclusion of this is to successfully get a campaign backed on kickstarter is to:

1. Not ask for a lot of money
2. Get a lot of people to give you money

Isn’t this kind of obvious? It’s like concluding that the people who successful diet are:

1. The people who don’t plan to lose much weight
2. The people who lose a lot of weight

Surely looking at other factors i.e. ones that are part of the design of a campaign, would be far more useful.

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:46:17 +0000

Yeah, the dataset is small, but it’s really just an example case for the service. The bigger picture is that anyone could gather some data and build their own model.

By: John Monte

John Monte — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:45:09 +0000

Why did they use such a small subset of data? Kicktraq has something like 35k projects. They should reach out to them.

By: Steve Ardire

Steve Ardire — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:41:43 +0000

Nice but needs to be easier to use and more sophisticated ML services with ‘smarter data’ that will foster forthcoming wave of consumer-friendly web services where knowledge workers will be able to do 80% of the role of a data scientist ;)