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US crowd-funding super-site Kickstarter is set to join our sometimes-sunny shores and open up to British-based innovators and entrepreneurs this autumn.
Home to many crowd-sourced successes such as the Pebble Smartwatch and a fair share of various upcoming games, the site which helps turn these ideas into reality will accept submissions from outside the US later in the year.
The company shouted about it too on its Twitter account:
People in the UK will be able to launch projects on Kickstarter starting this autumn! More info soon! <3 <3 <3
— Kickstarter (@kickstarter) July 9, 2012
Look forward to helping make people’s visions into a reality later this year with good old pounds sterling, and maybe even come up with your own groundbreaking idea too. [Twitter via TechRadar]
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How are they raising the money to do this?
What or where is “Autum”?
Something internet gremlins celebrate! Cheers.
On the subject of corrections maybe Giz UK could raise some funding to get an edit button. I’m sure many of us would contribute
Autumn is a season we no longer have here in the UK, we just have weather
Wet season three of four.
truly….
I have a Kickstarter project idea, funds to tow the UK to the Canary Islands region so we get half decent weather
Deal, but we need a partner project to keep the Channel Tunnel connected – I still want access to half-decent wine, hairy women and cheap labour.
You can go to the north for the second two.
Bazinga!
I’m already there and there’s a shortage!
I’m a bit confused by this, I get that funding may be done in sterling, but there are already quite a few projects on Kickstarter that are based in the UK. With the new social tools on the site, when you log in it detects your location (you can also set it), and it tells you projects that are near you, these are all the projects in the UK:
http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/cities/england-gbr?ref=home_location
You can be based anywhere, but Amazon Payments (that handles all the actual money transactions) requires you to have a US bank account, social security number, etc, to actually receive money.
So currently, for a Brit to run a KS project, you need to have someone in the US to run all the funds through, which isn’t exactly ideal.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.