asked 2015-11-21 11:06:51 +0300
Should Jolla start a Indiegogo campain to help themselve and us? I think yes. Jolla have 107000 likes on Facebook and 9000 users on together Jolla. If 10000 People donate only 10€, so they have at the end 100000€ more cash. I would even be willing to pay more. This could be a other way of people power.
answered 2015-11-21 12:47:42 +0300
Talking about internal business information is a no-go for every company. All the grumblings about "bad communications" demonstrate only less experience with business matters and legal requirements.
A good idea is the Invesdor crowdfunding platform https://www.invesdor.com/. More here: https://together.jolla.com/question/122312/emergency-crowdfunding/
But I think, the financial problems would be solved by Jolla.
the communicstion issue most of the people keep mentioning is not to reveal company internals, but communicate and collaborate on things like roadmap of the os, reply to questions on tjc, respond to issues, inform why for example the is no batteries in the shop and try to resolve the issue etc.
just take a look at fairphone and how they treat their customers, and its even smaller company.
muppeth ( 2015-11-21 15:10:41 +0300 )editanswered 2015-11-25 13:13:33 +0300
Personally I'm O.K. with buying an overpriced phone if it helps Jolla. "Jolla supporter edition" with an alternative ringtone and inflated price.
Currently I need another phone (as a gift) and I don't mind paying extra 100 EUR for it. Sadly phones are out of stock at shop.jolla.com currently.
Asked: 2015-11-21 11:06:51 +0300
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I appreciate ideas like this, but they really have fundamental flaw of underestimating cost of human resources. Jolla had 50 million euro for 3 or so years. That 100 000 € is one persons 1 year wage with all mandatory costs added for employer. To keep all 100 persons going on you would need 10 000 000€. And I doubt Jolla employees have been slacking so there might not be much to cut in expenses from. At least not if you wanted to keep development running.
Manatus ( 2015-11-21 12:02:21 +0300 )editIn my view it's not a charity matter but an entrepreneurial issue. 1) Show a winning strategy. 2) Get money to implement it.
objectifnul ( 2015-11-21 14:18:47 +0300 )editWe did. About 250 euros each. Don't get sucked into sunk cost fallacy. I'll take a wild guess that Jolla the software company stays afloat a little bit longer and Jolla the hardware company with thousands of paid tablets to produce sinks.
alamaki ( 2015-11-22 17:12:35 +0300 )editWould I be rich, I would not only donate, I would invest. However the vocation of this endeavour is definitely not to establish a niche market for happy fews. It has a gigantic potential, simply because it offers 7-billion potential users an opportunity to own the instrument of their digital life instead of being owned by it.
objectifnul ( 2015-11-25 14:05:30 +0300 )edit