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03-27-2014, 06:13 PM
The $40,000 T-Shirt: Oculus Rift and Ownership in Crowdfunding
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Kickstarter (http://mashable.com/category/kickstarter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) backers experienced a rude awakening when Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) was acquired by Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss).
Monetary pledges, developer time and emotional investments in the virtual reality startup offer ** legal recourse and ** payoff for a company that is acquired for $2 billion. Only people with equity stakes — private stock — in the company enjoy the windfall.
See also: What Is Oculus Rift — and Why Should You Care? (http://mashable.com/2014/03/26/oculus-rift-explained/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
It was just a matter of time until one of Kickstarter's projects blossomed into what investors call a "unicorn," and began to beg the question — should companies using crowdfunding to launch a business also offer some stake in the company? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/27/40000-t-shirt/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Crowdfunding (http://mashable.com/category/crowdfunding/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Kickstarter (http://mashable.com/category/kickstarter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Startups (http://mashable.com/startups/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/N**aGDpCXzw
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Kickstarter (http://mashable.com/category/kickstarter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) backers experienced a rude awakening when Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) was acquired by Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss).
Monetary pledges, developer time and emotional investments in the virtual reality startup offer ** legal recourse and ** payoff for a company that is acquired for $2 billion. Only people with equity stakes — private stock — in the company enjoy the windfall.
See also: What Is Oculus Rift — and Why Should You Care? (http://mashable.com/2014/03/26/oculus-rift-explained/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
It was just a matter of time until one of Kickstarter's projects blossomed into what investors call a "unicorn," and began to beg the question — should companies using crowdfunding to launch a business also offer some stake in the company? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/27/40000-t-shirt/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Crowdfunding (http://mashable.com/category/crowdfunding/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Kickstarter (http://mashable.com/category/kickstarter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Startups (http://mashable.com/startups/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Oculus Rift (http://mashable.com/category/oculus-rift/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/N**aGDpCXzw