LEGO Ideas – Attracting creative builders
Outsourcing product ideation
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CookUnity – a New York food delivery start-up of home cooked meals prepared by a community of local Chefs.
A New York food delivery start-up of home cooked meals prepared by a community of local independent Chefs.
Leveraging Crowds: Making Stadiums More Efficient
Can you use the crowd to achieve ultimate dynamic pricing?
Netflix for Books
What started as a social network for bookworms has turned into the largest site for readers and book recommendations with 65 million members, 2 billion books added, 68 million reviews. Goodreads leveraged crowdsourced reviews, a sticky offering (more you use it more valuable it is), and reaped the rewards when Amazon purchased them in 2013.
Patreon: Creators, Come Get Paid
A crowdfunding platform, Patreon supports the arts by modernizing the patronage system of yore.
Desginhill: Crowdsourcing in Graphic Design
Designhill allows freelance designers to connect with businesses looking to outsource design work.
PledgeMusic: A Way for Fans to Participate in Album Creation
PledgeMusic, a direct-to-fan funding platform for music artists, hopes to create a closer connection between musicians and fans by providing unique experiences in exchange for pledging to artist campaigns.
Apple ResearchKit – Crowdsourcing Medical Research
Apple ResearchKit – Crowdsourcing Medical Research. Is it a good idea by Apple? Why is Apple well positioned to deliver such a framework? Has it been successful?
Glossier’s Lip Gloss Empire
Emily Weiss can be considered the queen of crowds as far as the beauty market is concerned, as Glossier’s business model depends entirely on an army of loyal fans for all of its core processes, from product development, to marketing, […]
Quantopian: the democratization of Wall Street?
As quant hedge funds approach the $1 trillion AUM mark can crowd-sourcing investment algorithms proof to be a sustainable strategy to get an edge over the competition?