Quantopian – Crowdsourcing Investment Algorithms
Quantopian has created a programmer-friendly toolkit allowing programmers to profit from trading algorithms
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Redbubble : Targeting a Worldwide Artist Crowd
A 10 year effort to foster a worldwide on-demand artist marketplace and community
Iodine: the ‘Yelp of Medicine’
Iodine is the ‘Yelp of Medicine,’ creating tremendous value by crowdsourcing reviews of pharmaceuticals to help patients make better-informed choices about their medications. But the question remains: can they capture any of that value?
Quora – Crowdsourcing human knowledge
How Quora become the #140 most visited website in the world by leveraging human instincts around helping others and getting recognized.
23andMe: Healing the World through Crowdsourcing
Biotech firm 23andMe used crowdsourcing to collect vast body of data and fuel first-of-a-kind depression study
CrowdMed: Solving medical puzzles
CrowdMed: helping patients to get closer the right diagnosis.
Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia
With over 40M articles and 15 billion page views, Wikipedia is the fifth-most popular website in the world. With an editorial community of 75,000, Wikipedia has maintained a hierarchical structure to ensure the quality of content. Managed by a non-profit organization and providing content to its readers for free, how is Wikipedia sustaining itself?
DeNA Case: Failure of HBS Alumna
Risk of crowd sourced information
PatientsLikeMe – Crowdsourcing patient platform for healthcare
Crowdsourcing platform empowers patients to take a greater role in advancing health
Gym Rat: Crowdsourcing Personal Trainers
Why pay for expensive personal trainers when you can leverage gym rats in your neighborhood? Here's a business idea to use crowdsourcing in the gym industry.