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...
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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...
#CrowdChat with Hugh Mason: Accelerating Asia’s Innovation Ecosystem
Asia is currently one of the most exciting and fast-growing hubs of innovation and entrepreneurship in the world. Within this regional ecosystem, the Singapore-based innovation academy JFDI.Asia has built an extraordinary community of practitioners who accelerate,...
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...
Why 2013 will be the International Year of Crowdsourcing
I've been thinking long and hard about what to call 2013. After saying 2011 would need to be the International Year of Resilience (much still needed) and 2012 the International Year of Problem Solving, I'm thinking now that Crowdsourcing (the idea of seeking...
Jokers In The Pack
In Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, the villainous Joker uses crowds to facilitate anarchy. He crowd sources his rebellion via a twisted yet innate understanding of the collective. That it fails is a function of how the culture of popular commerce feels guilty about...
Leadership Skills in Open Innovation: More Collaboration and Different Control
I think it happens often enough that when an organization opens its doors to the outside, even if it is just to watch the competition, a climate of insecurity or fear emerges within the leadership and management. Organizations have lived for many years within closed...
Future of Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding has been an increasingly talked about topic for several years in various contexts, even though the biggest applications and value are just being created. Since HR 3606, commonly known as the JOBS Act, was written into law in April 2012 in the US, many...
Crowdsourcing – A Super-Win Situation for All
In an incredible short span of time Talenthouse India has creatively collaborated with several brands of national and international standing. This recognition was only possible because there is enough authenticity and substance in the concept of crowdsourcing. There...
Why Open Innovation Is More Than Hype
Innovation has been a business buzzword for decades. The word is tossed around so often and in so many different contexts that it’s meaning and value have been muddied, but innovation is here to stay and it will be one of the tools that will get us out of our current...
The Tipping Point in Business and the Cultural Innovator
The recent high profile demise of beloved UK entertainment retail brand, HMV, promoted a feeling of national mourning, as another established and seemingly permanent business began to disappear. But it also represents a tipping point for business as we know it. We...
My Nation My Anthem – Crowdsourcing India’s National Anthem
When a nation comes together- magic happens, time and again the history of mankind has proven that harmony can achieve extraordinary results. One such feat is about to get accomplished through My Nation My Anthem, a crowdsourced project by Talenthouse India. How do we...
Biased Crowd Funding: “Invest in a Younger You”
AlumniFunder is a new crowd funding startup based out of Los Angeles. They connect alumni at top universities like Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown, MIT with entrepreneurs and innovators who are still in school. They are building a marketplace for disruptive...
In Chile, Government Takes a Hands-On Approach in Promoting Innovation
When it comes to sources of innovation, government isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. In Chile, however, that’s not the case. No, new technologies aren’t flowing out of the legislature, nor is President Sebastián Piñera giving up his day job to go the...
How Social Media Can Help Find Your Missing Child
Find Your Missing Child (FYMC) was founded after a social media and email campaign helped one man find his missing child. Its goal is to educate families about the community-building powers of social media and email to aid in the search of a missing child. Using...
Destination Singapore!
We have 117 days to go before Singapore and the first global conference on crowdsourcing and open innovation. The Crowdsourcing Week team is a global beehive with everybody buzzily working to produce a stellar event in Singapore! Since we work across so many different...