Cumplo.cl: Debt crowdfunding in Chile
Cumplo.cl is a crowdfunding platform that is looking to increase access to the debt market at affordable rates for individuals and SMEs, but regulatory issues have come in their way.
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Street Bump: Crowdsourcing Better Streets, but Many Roadblocks Remain
Boston’s Street Bump is an interesting effort at leveraging the collective intelligence of the crowd to improve road conditions but still faces many challenges in creating measurable value for and incentivizing users.
Bark & Co.: Using the Celebrity Dog Crowd
How 400 famous dogs became the sales team
The next crowdsourcing battleground: your car
The true consumer value to be unlocked in the automotive industry no longer lies in hardware. To explore the vast possibilities of integrating vehicles into internet of things, boosting in-vehicle infotainment systems and increasing safety with data usage, automakers should use the collective wisdom of the crowd in developing their software.
The Hunt: Crowdsourcing Solutions for Fashion Missed-Connections
I first saw you crossing the street on 20th and Park by Gramercy Tavern. You were cropped and long sleeved with black and white stripes — possibly cashmere.
PatientsLikeMe: Using the crowd to improve medical care
PatientsLikeMe is improving medical care by crowd-sourcing information from those who matter most, the patients themselves.
Waze, or how to crowd-source your way
From a modest Israeli start-up to one of the highest valuation during its acquisition by Google, Waze embodies the success of crowdsourcing ventures, and allows for a much cheaper method of data collection than that used by major corporations – like Waze’s new mother company, Google.
Creative Action Network: Making the Classics Cool
Creative Action Network is removing barriers to help students enjoy reading classic works of literature via creativity!
Lessons from Duolingo’s Effort to Support Free Language Learning from Crowdsourcing
@duolingo crowdsourced text translation platform allows users to learn a new languages online for free
Threadless: The Continuing Success of one of the older Crowdsourcing companies
Freakanaut design (sold out) One of the most well-established crowdsourcing design companies is Threadless (est. 2000), a design company that does not create designs but instead sources them from its users and sells them. The users create designs to put […]