TapTape aims to help fund projects for musicians, while also giving fans/investors upside in the artists’ success. These fans now have an incentive to help promote and grow the fanbase of the artists they are invested in. For artists, the funding source pie just got a lot bigger.
How human powered translation on the go is emerging from failure
Despite remarkable scientific progress in recent decades, current funding models for projects in early-stage drug development and climate change have failed. These projects tend to be expensive, risky, and lengthy. Andrew Lo and his colleagues at MIT suggest that crowdfunding and financial engineering can provide the solution to this funding problem.
Crowd sourcing the hunt for potentially dangerous asteroids.
DLife is a social network of sorts connecting diabetes patients with one another to share knowledge and information about managing the disease – but does sharing medical advice go too far?
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.
giffgaff’s model is so customer centric, the customers do most of the work. So far this seems to be working, but is it enough? Can the company withstand change that is not predicted by its customers? Is it just a marketing ploy to differentiate itself in an increasingly competitive and commoditized market? Does it truly generate value for its customers?
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.
How 400 famous dogs became the sales team
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) is the world’s largest brewer and commands approximately 25% market share of global beer consumption. AB InBev employs over 150,000 people across the globe and has a portfolio of 200 brands (primarily beer). Despite its large […]
