{"id":28580,"date":"2015-02-19T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T08:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=28580"},"modified":"2015-02-19T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T08:45:41","slug":"kickstarter-launches-france-french-hardware-campaigns-prefer-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/02\/kickstarter-launches-france-french-hardware-campaigns-prefer-us\/","title":{"rendered":"French hardware campaigns aren&#039;t waiting for Kickstarter to launch in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/1420863678_IMG_9123-600x335.jpg\" alt=\"1420863678_IMG_9123-600x335\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" \/>Rumors circled this week that Kickstarter would be launching in France, meaning\u00a0that crowdfunding projects based in France\u00a0can now&#8230; well, come from France. Kickstarter has since denied these rumors.<br \/>\nPreviously, European companies were encouraged to use the British website, requiring the currency to be in\u00a0pound sterlin(\u00a3) &#8211; alternatively, many French companies opted to open up a Delware corp in order to appear on the US site, which came with the advantage of the $USD, as well as a perceived sense of increased visibility.<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"220\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/prynt\/prynt-the-first-instant-camera-case-for-iphone-and\/widget\/card.html?v=2\"><\/iframe><iframe width=\"220\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/cloud-guys\/plug-the-brain-of-your-devices\/widget\/card.html?v=2\"><\/iframe><iframe width=\"220\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/giroptic\/the-worlds-first-full-hd-360-camera\/widget\/card.html?v=2\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAmong the larger campaigns on Kickstarter so far have been Lima, Hexo+, Giroptic &amp; currently Prynt; however,\u00a0campaigns like iSKN have <a title=\"iskn raises $2 Million to turn any iPad into a Wacom Tablet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2015\/01\/05\/iskn-raises-2-million-take-wacom-innovative-ipad-cover\/\">also had success fundraising <\/a>following their successful campaign, providing investors in France a benchmark for easily evaluating hardware investments.<br \/>\nWhile the stigma\u00a0remains as to whether\u00a0France-based campaigns (in French or in English, as seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/discover\/places\/paris-fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the current active campaigns<\/a>) receive as much visibility &amp; &#8220;PR&#8221; from Kickstarter (promotion in Kickstarter&#8217;s email newsletter, as well as visibility on the Kickstarter.com homepage), Kickstarter&#8217;s rumored advancement into France marks an increased interest in the market.<br \/>\n<em>Here are some other great campaigns:<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"220\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2019287550\/neoh-the-first-smart-3d-audio-headphones\/widget\/card.html?v=2\"><\/iframe><iframe width=\"220\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/sqdr\/hexo-your-autonomous-aerial-camera\/widget\/card.html?v=2\"><\/iframe><iframe width=\"220\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/keecker\/keecker-the-worlds-first-homepod\/widget\/card.html?v=2\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Update: a previous version of the article stated that Kickstarter had arrived in France. These rumors have been confirmed to be false, according to Kickstarter&#8217;s\u00a0Justin Kazmark.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors circled this week that Kickstarter would be launching in France, meaning\u00a0that crowdfunding projects based in France\u00a0can now&#8230; well, come from France. Kickstarter has since denied these rumors. Previously, European companies were encouraged to use the British website, requiring the currency to be in\u00a0pound sterlin(\u00a3) &#8211; alternatively, many French companies opted to open up a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":28581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}