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[Daniel Clem <clem11388@xxxxxxxxx>]

If that trend holds there will be a total of almost 80,000,000. Obviously it will have ups and downs, but even half that average would reach the goal. Will re-investigate GSM's signal strength in my area, as well as data plans.

Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The only number I'm writing down is the total funding amount so far at
>each
>interval, I'm not writing anything down about individual users. I feel
>like
>anything more than just looking at the total would be kind of sketchy.
>I
>ran some analysis and out of all of the 90 second periods, the most
>amount
>of contribution that the project received was $18,432 total during one
>90
>second interval. The average so far has been about $2,607 per 90 second
>interval.
>
>
>On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>> Nice, thx for recording the data and the graph.
>>
>> did you get any data on individuals who may had purchased multiple
>times
>> consecutively? , how many each individual got ?
>>
>> I Think indiegogo only lets you select one perk even if you add more
>cash
>> to the amount.
>>
>> So it wouldn't be a surprise if some made multiple purchases
>consecutively.
>>
>> Anyway this will be a crucial week, hope their double edge and other
>perks
>> get mass acceptance.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: coder543@xxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:41:00 -0500
>>
>> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)
>> To: estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> CC: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>>
>> 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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>>     Josh
>>
>>
>>
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