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Originally Posted by octothorp
That's what Kickstarter says on their website, but I know someone (a Canadian citizen) who has an American bank account, address, and EIN. She attempted to do a kickstarter project, and was told that you need to actually be an american citizen, something that kickstarter doesn't publicly say on their site.
Officially, Kickstarter even says that you aren't allowed to circumvent their rules by using a friend or relative in the US, but it's pretty clear they look the other way when people do use this approach.
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So to follow up on this, the person in question (my wife) decided to use her existing online shop and site to run a Kickstarter-style campaign to fund a book project on the visual history surrounding the typewriter. Once Kickstarter became a non-option and she had to choose between funding platforms that have less of a following, it made more sense to just run it herself and save that 4-9% fee that Indie-Go-Go charges.
Anyway, if anyone's interested, you can check it out the campaign here:
http://www.uppercasemagazine.com/typewriter/
Or check out a blog post about her decision to fund it through a more DIY approach to crowdfunding:
http://www.uppercasemagazine.com/blo...g#.UBb_MDH6ZGE
It would have done amazingly well on Kickstarter, but it's off to a great start, regardless.