Starting today, people in Germany can crowdfund their bright ideas using Kickstarter. If it comes as a surprise that they haven't been able to do so for a long time, that's understandable.
Germany, after all, is the fourth biggest economy in the world. It has the largest population in the European Union. It's famed for the quality of its engineering and the caliber of its technical universities—valuable assets when it comes to creating the sort of gadgets that rank among the highest-profile Kickstarter campaigns. Basically, if you were to design a country from scratch to be an attractive venue for crowdfunding, it would have many of the characteristics of the German market.
