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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 …...
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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...
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What’s your time worth? Some people might struggle to answer that question. But for time bank members it’s a no-brainer: one hour of time equals one Time Credit. Time banking is an old concept that dovetails neatly...
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