Solving Crime the Crowdsourced Way
Could the wisdom of crowds help to solve crimes?
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Quirky: A Failed Attempt at Crowdsourcing Inventions
Quirky was a brilliant idea. Why not crowd-source product ideas. Vote on the best ones. And only bring the ones people want to life. Seems foolproof right? Maybe not so much…
Making Higher Education Accessible – Coursera
Challenges along the way in creating innovative higher education solutions.
Amazon.com – the Winner Takes It All
Amazon.com – an icon in the world of platforms
TopTal.com: Growing a new marketplace platform in a competitive space.
Toptal is a two-sided marketplace that matches freelancers who are looking for work on one side, with companies looking to hire temporary workers on the other side. Even though it competed with established large platforms, the company managed to grow faster than the market and establish a successful platform by focusing on the ‘high-end’ part of the market.
Lazada – Alibaba’s point of entrance into South East Asian eCommerce
South East Asian equivalent to Alibaba and its role in building Chinese eCommerce, Lazada has pioneered online shopping in the region by building its eCommerce platform and becoming the online destination site for consumers and one-stop gateway to the region for local and international brands.
HireVue: A Digital Platform for Recruiting
Digital recruiting platform HireVue is disrupting traditional recruiting processes
Slack: B2B’s Home Base, the Everything Enterprise Platform
Slack's humble beginnings as a feature within a game soon became a product with a cult-like following. Is its rapid growth a result of its platform for 3rd party enterprise SaaS integrations, and does that raise switching costs as the platform becomes the home base for the modern enterprise?
Betterment: fintech finds a place among wealth managers
A leading independent robo-advisor demonstrates how technology can help democratize personal wealth management.
Instacart – Leading the way for grocery deliveries
Instacart, an on demand platform for delivering groceries, is considered one of Americas most promising companies. The company was founded in 2012 and has rapidly expanded ever since – paving a new way for grocery deliveries