Crowdfunding has created plenty of opportunities for aspiring businesses in recent years. It helps give them an opportunity to introduce exciting new inventions and products. However, it can also be risky. You hand money to internet strangers who give you nothing but a promise in return.

Potential backers look at all the components of your project before opening their wallets. If those who back you like what they see, they will enthusiastically promote your project, helping to spread the word and ultimately helping you reach your funding goal.

Consequently, these factors can play a key role in projects not reaching their goals:

• Too little time devoted to planning and promotion
• Project owner did not successfully engage their personal network
• Project owner did not build press relationships
• Campaign funding threshold set too high
• No video included
• Project owner had little to no background in project field

Amongst the success stories like the Oculus Rift and Exploding Kittens, there are bound to be failures that don’t make the cut. And some with good reason; there are a few ideas that are pretty ridiculous. So, if you’re curious to see just how strange some projects are, SSLs.com has compiled 19 of the weirdest crowdfunding fails on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Take a look below.

Source: https://www.ssls.com/blog/non-starters-infographic/