Even as a late entrant to a network effect heavy business, Adam D’Angelo was able to amass an impressively large and high quality crowd based answering platform… but can he turn it into a revenue generating business?
How the crowd overwhelmed the British public sector with a witty name.
With 22.5 billion kilometers logged and 100 million users, Waze has rapidly become the navigation app of choice.
And it got there through crowd-sourcing.
A young startup co-founded by an HBS grad has revolutionized the agriculture sector and put Big Agra in defense mode. And they’re doing so by crowdsourcing farmers’ data.
“Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world”
How will Etsy maintain and grow its marketplace in light of competition from Amazon Handmade and Ebay?
How Google had to adjust the openness of its Android platform, just as Apple had done before them
How do you capture value with an open cryptographic protocol? The 0x project may be onto something.
Trendyol, launched by an HBS dropout only 6 years ago, is now Turkey’s largest flash sales e-retailer. With 20 million sales a year, annual run-rate of almost $350 million and backing from top international venture investors (Tiger Global Management, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the European Reconstruction and Development Fund), it is hard to ignore. What’s more, Trendyol still has plenty of room to grow by riding the wave of growing e-commerce in Turkey (growing at 22% over the last five years), which currently accounts for only 2% of all retail sales.
In a market where households make frequent use of domestic cleaning services, SweepSouth has simplified the process of identifying reliable domestic workers. While the story has been positive thus far, can this business model scale?
