Crowdfunding for EU Founders
The European Hardware Launch Guide
EU regulations, VAT complexity, and fragmented markets make hardware crowdfunding structurally harder in Europe than almost anywhere else in the world. This book exists because the American playbook doesn't port cleanly — and EU founders deserve one written for their reality.
N is for Narrative. The narrative EU founders have been given — that you need a US entity, a US bank account, and a US address to run a successful campaign — is partially true and mostly wrong. This book will tell you which parts are true, which parts are myth, and how to build a campaign structure that works from inside the EU.
Topics will include: legal entity structure for EU-based crowdfunding, EU VAT and import duty architecture for global backers, CE/UKCA compliance and how to document it on your campaign page, platform strategy differences (Kickstarter vs Indiegogo vs domestic platforms), and the EU grant and funding ecosystem that American founders don't have access to.
Written specifically for hardware founders based in Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the rest of the EU who are building for a global backer audience.