crowd business models Archives - Crowdsourcing Week

Posted by Clive Reffell | Dec 4, 2018 | Crowd Causes, Social Business | 0 |

Sourceability to Surcle: from supplying electronic components to crowdsourcing innovation

by Clive Reffell | Nov 14, 2018 |

Since May 2015, Sourceability has been providing electronic component supply chain solutions on a global basis, with a network of offices based around three global distribution centers in Miami, Hong Kong and Singapore....

How Crowdsourcing is Changing Business

by Clive Reffell | Aug 23, 2018 |

The power of crowds, who can link together and organize effectively through smart mobile technology, is disrupting traditional power bases at political, corporate, media and financial levels. The rise of populist political...

Crowdsourcing Fueling Open Innovation

by Damon Brown | Aug 7, 2018 |

There is a natural tension between intellectual property and intellectual growth. Companies value their ideas and processes, as it differentiates them from other businesses, but they have to let go of some of their secrecy and...

Q&A with Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of HeroX

by Clive Reffell | Aug 1, 2018 |

Christian Cotichini has over 20 years of experience personally leading startup and high growth technology companies. He is also a successful angel investor as well as a serial entrepreneur. He founded Absolute Software, a leader...

Crowd Gigs Are International

by Rob Israch | Jul 31, 2018 |

The U.S. Department of Labor recently put out a report on the state of freelancers and gig workers. As one of the largest studies in the space, it showed that the percentage of short-term workers was actually down slightly from...

Build Crowdsourcing Business Models To Last

by Thomas Kohler | Apr 18, 2018 |

Increasingly visible crowdsourcing platforms like Threadless scale quickly by harnessing the innovation power of crowds and capitalizing on networking effects. However, failure cases such as Quirky, show that sustaining ventures...

The crowd economy at work in recreational boating

by Clive Reffell | Jan 7, 2017 |

Among the hundreds of exhibitors at the 2017 London Boat Show are several operating with crowd economy business models. This article features three of them, the oldest being twelve years old and the youngest is a brand new...

Why work isn’t working for Millennials and over-65s – and how the crowd economy can help (Part II)

by Epi Ludvik Nekaj | Nov 1, 2016 |

The crowd economy represents a profound shift in the way we think about work – a shift that’s already well underway. According to research by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and UNI Europa, around 11% of...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – October 21

by Ejona Blyta | Oct 20, 2016 |

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – crowdsourcing determining climate change effects; GOP crowdsourcing Trump cabinet suggestions; NASA crowdsourcing Jupiter research and many more …...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – September 30

by Ejona Blyta | Sep 30, 2016 |

Check out our curated Weekly RoundUP of the breaking and must-read news – the crowd-powered robot painting like da Vinci; saving Twitter through equity crowdfunding; Google Translate and Maps turning to crowdsourcing and more...