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Strategic Insights for Crowdfunding Campaigns

Strategic Insights for Crowdfunding Campaigns

‘Crowdfunding Day’, the first conference in Amsterdam focusing on a new way of raising funds will be held on  April 15 at the VU University of Amsterdam. It will deliver strategic insights for anyone who wants to explore the possibilities of crowdfunding for both...

Publication To Detail & Organize Crowdfunding Developments

The European crowdfunding market is an exciting place to be in. Crowdfunding as a new way to finance business, creative or social goals is revolutionizing the way businesses, artists or even the government thinks about financing. With this new opportunity, comes a...

Potential of Crowdsourcing in Advertising

One of the professional hazards of working in the Brand building industry is that, you’re extremely sensitive to advertising. The fact that it is all around and can range from anywhere between awesome to depraved is unsettling enough to push you off your rocker. The...

When Crowdsourcing Doesn’t Work

When Crowdsourcing Doesn’t Work

Crowdsourcing is a great tool for solving problems, but just like any other tool--it doesn't solve everything. As the saying goes, when all you've got is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail. Crowdsourcing will never be the one-all solve-all tool for problem...

EdTech in Latin America: Three Trends to Watch

When it comes to technology’s education-related potential, it is largely the populations of developing economies who stand to benefit the most. This is certainly the case of Latin America, where the edtech market had a stellar 2012 and is poised to have an even better...

Should We Really Keep Politicians Away From Scientists?

Sir Paul Nurse has 'weight' when it comes to science. His position is the head of The Royal Society in the United Kingdom and in an address in Melbourne he suggested that we need to keep politicians away from scientists: "It also emphasizes the need to keep the...

Geosocial Universe 3.0: The Integrated Giants [Graphic]

Geosocial Universe 3.0: The Integrated Giants [Graphic]

Alongside our third version of the Geosocial Universe, JESS3 created three additional snackables — think of them as moons in the orbit of the full graphic. Here’s the first one: The Integrated Giants. For this graphic, we used a survey from Pingdom, an uptime...

Startups: Get Ready for a Global Stage

Hey You Startups! Are you getting ready for our startup challenge? Hurry! The application deadline is in less than three weeks away. Here is some press covering our startup challenge: e27 - Who will win the first ever startup crowdfunding challenge in Singapore? SGE -...

Top 10 Crowdfunders for Equity USA

Here are our 2013 preliminary top US crowd funders contestants pending the legalization of Crowd Funding for Equity under the JOBS Act.  We will do a follow up article in a months time to show additional names and order of strength between the leading brands in North...

Kickstarter Project of the Month: Badass Socks

Crowdfunding has the potential to change the way we look at careers. Today you can quit your job. birth an idea and actually build it. The story of badass socks starts with two friends who quit their jobs at LivingSocial, spent 12 weeks learning web development at dev...

The Crowd Designs for Social Good

Crowdsourcing Week 2013 is happy to announce our “Crowd Design for Good” campaign that will combine art, fun and a great cause. Crowdsourcing Week is partnering with 99designs & Kiva to empower developing communities around the world with a sustainable approach....

Arun Mehra: This is the Era for Collaboration

Crowdsourcing Week interviewed Arun Mehra, the Chief Executive Officer with Talenthouse India, an online platform pioneering in creative collaboration. He is an entertainment industry veteran with over 18 years of experience spanning O&M, MTV, BCCL and Reliance...

Crowdsourcing Week Announces Global Startup and Crowdfunding

Crowdsourcing Week calls international startups to participate in a pitch and crowdfunding challenge. The winners will be announced during Crowdsourcing Week the first ever global event on crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding in Singapore on June 3-7....

David Berkowitz: Crowdsourcing Is and Isn’t for Everyone.

Crowdsourcing Week interviewed David Berkowitz, Vice President of Emerging Media with digital marketing agency 360i, where he develops social media and mobile marketing programs for Fortune 500 businesses and leading brands.  David has written more than 400 columns...

Crowdsourced Official Music Score for Singapore?

Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) 2013, the first global conference on open innovation for enterprise, partners with Talenthouse India to provide an international platform for the creative community. Staying true to its objective of collaboration to make outstanding...

Can Quality Come from the Crowd?

A few weeks ago, I came across a new Brazilian startup, Widbook – a.k.a. the YouTube of Books (according to Mashable). A sort of literary social network with a crowd-based twist, Widbook is a space where aspiring writers can put their work on display and collaborate...

The Ins of the Outs of Crowdsourcing

To garner any lasting benefits from Crowdsourcing, going 'out there' needs internal trust.  Without that trust much energy will be expended by a few people, only to see potentially business changing ideas fall on to infertile soil. There are some key things that your...

A Quality Framework for Crowds

The number 1 issue facing the entire wave of crowdsourcing companies today is quality.  Everyone can setup a service that is cheaper and has a faster turnaround time, but quality is holding the industry back. In some recent discussions, we came up with a simple...

The Geosocial Universe 3.0 [INFOGRAPHIC]

In a time not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a little phenomenon was born that united the people of cyberspace through geographic services and social networking. In August 2010, JESS3 took one giant step for geosocial networking with the introduction of The...