Commoditizing Crowdsourcing; How a Distributed Network Helped Build a Business
Premise uses distributed data collection to gather valuable information for customers ranging from governments to businesses.
Data Aggregation
Can data buy you value in the capital-intensive oil and gas industry?
“Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used.” [1]
Wait, Who Owns What? Oseberg’s Digitalization of America’s Land Records
Oil and gas companies deal with a land recording system that is hundreds of years old, startup company Oseberg is here to digitalize and modernize that system.
BuffetGo: An online ordering platform to reduce buffet restaurant food waste.
How an online company is enabling restaurants worldwide to easily sell leftover prepared foods and reduce overall food waste.
Zillow: Has not yet broken the broker model
Zillow has increased public access to home listings through data aggregation and automated pricing, but has not been profitable recently or disrupted the real estate industry entirely.