I'm not trying to say Ellsworth shouldn't have handled it better, or that she hasn't had her own issues with projects not panning out (though...I'll admit I'm not up on the full details of the C-One, but according to Wikipedia it actually did sell a couple hundred units, and she certainly wasn't asking for crowd-funding.) But as cool as I find the idea of crowd-funding, you need to actually be able to follow through, and that doesn't happen through the sheer power of wishing and throwing money at anything that comes up.
