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Crowdsourced Marketplaces – Only $250 and a huge payoff. I just upped my pledge to $250 to put a remarkable Kickstarter project over the top. Symbionomics, stories of a new economy is high concept, with systemic change as its goal. I am a serial startup and turnaround entrepreneur with a record of seven out of eight successful companies become a professional investor (after selling several companies you realize every company is a future’s contract). I consider myself experienced, yet I have found that that Kickstarter and its crowdsourced funding peers like Indiegogo, deliver a far higher and more frequent and continuous level of emotional involvement linked to a funding commitment than I have experienced before. We, the team behind Hub Bay Area, Good Capital and Socap, have a lot to learn from them. That money came from people like Lloyd Elder, who built Google’s infinitely scalable server network.

I met Lloyd through the remarkable Leila Janah, the globe trotting leader of Samasource. Tags: Indiegogo, kickstarter. AkaStarter. Equity Crowdfunding Portal | Crowdfund Investing Platform for Startups. Wiki « Getting Results from Crowdsourcing. Getting Results from Crowdsourcing Just another WordPress weblog Wiki Advice _________________________ Which service marketplace do you prefer?

View Results Loading ...Polls Archive <A HREF=" Widgets</A> Get help in establishing effective crowdsourcing strategies Engage the leading keynote speaker on the future of crowdsourcing © 2010 Advanced Human Technologies. Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods and services. These services include ideas and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly-evolving group of internet users; it divides work between participants to achieve a cumulative result.

The word crowdsourcing itself is a portmanteau of crowd and outsourcing, and was coined in 2005.[1][2][3][4] As a mode of sourcing, crowdsourcing existed prior to the digital age (i.e. "offline").[5] There are major differences between crowdsourcing and outsourcing. Crowdsourcing comes from a less-specific, more public group, whereas outsourcing is commissioned from a specific, named group, and includes a mix of bottom-up and top-down processes.[6][7][8] Advantages of using crowdsourcing may include improved costs, speed, quality, flexibility, scalability, or diversity.[9][10] Definitions[edit] In a February 1, 2008, article, Daren C.

Historical examples[edit] Timeline of major events[edit] G. #1 Site for Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, & Open Innovation News | Daily Crowdsource. Ad rates, events, and crowdfunding: Community news sites get innovative about revenue.