I was told of one person who before moving into setting up a games company propped up a previous failing business by attempting to smuggle drugs into the country.
Or perhaps a delicacy of meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal (especially pork, and traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) mixed with herbs and sometimes bread crumbs.
I read somewhere that JG was licencing their products out and would be using the funds they received to put towards finishing off the CSIO Kickstarter.
Thing is it looks like my reference has evaporated so I cannot give a source to this .
I've made quite a few in my time but I have learned from my mistakes and grown from them.
I think one of the most notable involves not communicating with the players about how far some raiders had escaped in an infamous session of Cyborg Commando, which ended with the raiders being experimented...
I suppose it all depends on what you define as a successful crowd-funder, for example Dark Conspiracy 4th edition was successful in that it reached its funding goal but never sent out any rewards.