[poub]

The page http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012#category might be confusing

Kickstarter (KS) always defined on their pages that a successful project is a "successfully funded" project.

It’s hard to know how KS can calculate a successful project by the way we understand it : a project that have at least delivered all its rewards and "shipped" the product advertised.

"KS's terms of use require creators to fulfill all rewards of their project or refund any backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill." But KS do not track those data. They are the responsibility of the creator.

Hence the column "successful" just mean "successfully funded". And the column Launched just mean "launched on KS and asking for funding".