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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, this will probably help. This is the amount of funding the
project had received over time. The data was sampled at a rate of once
every 90 seconds. You can clearly see the moment when the $600 phone option
ran out. Calculating the trend line for the second half of the graph
indicates that the campaign will raise about $20,000,000 total over the
full period of the campaign, which is not enough. I believe that this is
the reason Canonical introduced the Double Edge option a few minutes ago,
which might boost sales by a little bit more. Hopefully this clarifies my
point. There lines are very smooth. If a company bought 100 units all at
once, there would be a visible blip on the graph, in my opinion. That would
be $60,000 in pledges all at once, which would break the monotony of the
graph.

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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not saying companies *couldn't* buy from the indiegogo deal. I'm just
> saying the companies with the money to buy from this fundraiser wouldn't be
> able to move fast enough to have gotten in on the 1st day of sales.
> Companies move slowly for the most part, and I was watching the sales
> figures carefully. I've even plotted them on a graph over time as the data
> has come in, starting at about $1.5million dollars in sales. I should've
> started the data collection earlier, but I stupidly didn't think to. I
> watched the number from the start though, even though they weren't being
> recorded. The rates were constant. There was no bulk purchase done by any
> one company. If you would like to review my numbers, I can send you the
> spreadsheet.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >Stores and resellers were not purchasing from indiegogo yesterday. There
>> might have been one or two, but that's simply not what happened. This whole
>> campaign is all about individuals buying these phones. I don't want to see
>> this campaign fail anymore than you do. People will either buy them at
>> $830, or they won't.
>>
>>
>> yes... sure.
>>
>> I didn't see anywhere that said limited one per client.
>>
>> Or that you shouldn't get involved with business reasons in mind and get
>> a bunch of them.
>>
>> There's nothing to lose at the moment, which makes it even better. In
>> fact anyone can come in and buy most of the 35k remaining, I don't think
>> its prohibited.
>>
>> I believe even companies got into the discounted 600 tier and took their
>> share and is why you see 0 in the enterprise tier. Why would you as a
>> company pay 80/160k when you can pay 60/120k right there (Big discount in
>> one go), is a no brainer, they wouldn't survive as companies by being dumb
>> about $, specially on this economy.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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> Sincerely,
>     Josh
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Sincerely,
    Josh