Actually, Kickstarter is worse than the stock market.
When you buy shares, if the company does well, you get dividends.
There was that Kickstarter project that started, floated/got bought out, and the original "investors"/kickstarters received nothing in return.
Sure, nobody said they would receive anything, but it feels like a kick in the teeth. Even VCs get something in this kind of situation.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
