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do Kickstarter.com backers get equity in the project?

I have not found anywhere that Kickstarter backers get any equity or percentage of profit or anything. Is this true?

Answer 9796

Backers get nothing beyond the deliverable and the perks they paid into. (Or at least, not unless those who behind the crowdfunding feel very generous - if they’re even allowed to.)

There even was something of a controversy about this very topic recently:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/28/5557120/what-if-oculus-rift-kickstarter-backers-had-gotten-equity


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