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Commoditizing Crowdsourcing; How a Distributed Network Helped Build a Business

Posted on November 13, 2018 by AA

Premise uses distributed data collection to gather valuable information for customers ranging from governments to businesses.

TaskRabbit is using open innovation to tap an unrealized labor market, but can it sustain its growth?

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Kaitlyn

TaskRabbit is your new handyman, mover, grocery shopper, and more.  Using open innovation, or “crowdsourcing,” TaskRabbit connects demand for and supply of contractual labor. 

Airbnb: Machine Learning to optimize the future of Gig Economy and the power of economy-sharing

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Nathalia Barbosa

Airbnb has focused in delivering a product that boosts the actual volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the market scenario by addressing the value in “experiences” for millennial generation

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