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Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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joerg_rw
2013-11-04 , 10:04
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two
completely made up
stories to illustrate a few things:
Story #1
100 donors gave 250EUR each. We use 5000EUR of that for some early mech protos. Then we go
"Hallo MURATA, we need 100 special custom-made connectors to plug that display flex cable in."
MURATA answers "No way, sorry"
We have to cancel the project due to this and we will pay back 250EUR<donated_amount>*((25000-5000)/25000) = 200EUR (minus handling fees) to our donors
Story #2
1000 donors gave 100EUR each. We use 5000EUR of that for some early mech protos. Then we go
"Hallo MURATA, we need THOUSAND special custom-made connectors to plug that display flex cable in."
MURATA answers "Umm, OK. That's feasible"
We DON'T have to cancel the project due to this and we will NOT have to pay back 100EUR<donated_amount>*((100000-5000)/100000) = 95EUR (minus handling fees) to our donors.
However if we had to then obviously the "loss" for each donor is way smaller than in story one. To compare: for a 250EUR the refund would be 250*0.95=237.50 and thus the
"loss" only 12.50EUR
instead of 50EUR - that's the
smaller individual risk
.
The answer from MURATA for 1000 items (vs. 100) represents the
lower project risk
.
And
of course
we will get components for a more competitive price when we buy 1000 instead of 200.
cheers
jOERG
Last edited by joerg_rw; 2013-11-04 at
10:14
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