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Kickstarter Lesson #5: Currency Exchange and Problems
By Xeolyenomics - The Game of Economics  •  November 29, 2015
As Kickstarter started growing from its base in US, the number of currencies which creators can use to set up their project started to grow quickly. With the majority of the Kickstarter backers still coming from US, creating a project using a non USD currency will often lead to confusion and misinformation. As not everybody is savvy with the exchange rate around the world, failure to give a quick conversion rate to backers in US and EU may deter backers from backing your project. We created Wongamania: Banana Economy using AUD and since AUD is a weaker currency as compared to USD, the pledge reward will seem to be more expensive as compared to other projects offering the similar rewards. So a AUD25 pledge will be seen as USD25 when the actual pledge amount is only USD18.



Other than the initial pledge amount beside the name of the project which...
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Xeolyenomics is essentially a lighthearted blog that talks about my observation about my world, primarily in the world of finance, game design, entrepreneurship and some of the humorous stuff that happened to me ...
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