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Crowdsourcing Week: The Potential of Crowd Power (Video)
Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding

Watch this special video from José María Figueres, President of the Carbon War Room. Figueres hails the power of crowdsourcing and the potential for Crowdsourcing Week to become a key summit for those of us who live and breathe all things crowd.

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Crowdsourcing.orgMay 21, 2013 05:58 pm GMT227 views
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Genius Crowds Closes Its Doors
Crowd Creativity, Open Innovation

The co-creation company Genius Crowds announced that it is shuttering its doors last week. We had a chance to speak with the company's cofounder and CEO CJ Kettler about what went wrong. 

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Anton RootMay 21, 2013 12:00 pm GMT142 views
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Crowdfunding and Direct Selling: A Conversation With Dan Williams
Crowdfunding

Paul Spinrad speaks with the Electronic Retailing Association's Dan Williams about crowdfunding and the market for direct response products sold directly to consumers from the entities that make them.

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Paul SpinradMay 20, 2013 09:40 pm GMT922 views
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Crowdfunding Platform for Journalists 'Vourno' Launches Today
Crowdfunding

We take a look at Vourno, a crowdfunding platform for journalists, that launched earlier today.

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Anton RootMay 20, 2013 03:00 pm GMT1222 views
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Freakstarter and Cuban's Embrace of the Crowd: Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Headlines
Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding

Listen to our bite-sized podcast of the week's top crowdsourcing and crowdfunding headlines, in which we cover all the most important developments in the industries and the broader world of the crowd, and all in less than 10 minutes.

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Eric MackMay 19, 2013 02:47 pm GMT663 views
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Mark Cuban Loves Crowdsourcing: The Crowded Room #24
Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding

Dallas Mavericks owner and outspoken investor Mark Cuban has been speaking out a lot lately about the value of the crowd, and now he's putting one of his investments where his mouth is and crowdsourcing his team's uniforms. That, plus the delights of Freakstarter and all the week's top crowdsourcing and crowdfunding headlines in our 24th installment of the Crowded Room.

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Eric MackMay 18, 2013 12:42 am GMT877 views
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How to Make Crowdfunding Technology Work in a Non-Tech Sector
Crowdfunding

Sarah Timms, founder and CEO of LoveAnimals.org, a recently-launched crowdfunding platform for animal welfare and wildlife conservation, writes in to explain how to make crowdfunding appealing to non-tech companies and organizations.

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Crowdsourcing.orgMay 17, 2013 04:59 pm GMT1699 views
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Pebble Secures $15M in VC Funding
Crowdfunding

Pebble, the company behind the eponymous smartwatch, announced on Thursday that it secured $15 million in Series A funding from VC firm Charles River Ventures.

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Eric BlattbergMay 16, 2013 10:22 pm GMT1005 views
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Google’s Stake in Lending Club a Defining Moment for Crowdfinance
Crowdfunding

InvestedIn CEO Alon Goren says Google's investment in the crowdfinance platform is a key milestone.

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Crowdsourcing.orgMay 16, 2013 09:05 pm GMT2401 views
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Mark Cuban Crowdsourcing Dallas Mavericks’ New Uniforms
Crowd Creativity

Mark Cuban plans to update the Dallas Mavericks' uniforms, and he's turning to the crowd for help.

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Anton RootMay 16, 2013 05:47 pm GMT790 views
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Talking Crowdfunding with hyperfund's David Schmelke
Crowdfunding

Hyperfund is an equity crowdfunding platform that's set to launch later this year. We reached out to the platform's VP of business development, David Schmelke, to find out more about the platform and his thoughts on the crowdfunding space in general.

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Anton RootMay 15, 2013 06:20 pm GMT983 views
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"Participation is the New Brand:" Chaordix at Crowdsourcing Week
Cloud Labor, Crowd Creativity, Distributed Knowledge

Continuing our in-depth preview with an interview with one of the presenters at Crowdsourcing Week, Shelley Kuipers, founder of Chaordix. Kuipers will be speaking about Growing Global Brands with Crowdsourcing.

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Eric MackMay 15, 2013 04:24 pm GMT921 views
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Polar Lets Users Gauge the Crowd’s Opinion
Distributed Knowledge, Tools

We take a look at Polar, a crowd-powered voting app that wants to make collecting feedback social, engaging, and fun.

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Anton RootMay 14, 2013 11:00 pm GMT667 views
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WiSeed Crowdfunds €1M Through Own Platform
Crowdfunding

Earlier today, French equity crowdfunding platform WiSeed announced a €1 million ($1.3 million) raise from its community of investors.

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Anton RootMay 14, 2013 05:10 pm GMT1200 views
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Massolution at SIG Summit This Week
Cloud Labor

We like to keep tabs on what our sister research and advisory arm, massolution, is up to and this week CEO and Founder Carl Esposti is in Florida for the Sourcing Interests Group Global Sourcing Summit where he'll be talking crowdtesting with passbrains.

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Crowdsourcing.orgMay 13, 2013 08:55 pm GMT536 views
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An Evolutionary Economic Explanation of the SEC’s Delay In Issuing Crowdfunding Rules
Crowdfunding

In this guest post, The Private Capital Market's Thomas Vass uses evolutionary economic theory to explain why the SEC hasn't yet issued rules around equity crowdfunding. 

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Crowdsourcing.orgMay 13, 2013 05:46 pm GMT1605 views
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Crowdcube Raises £1.5M in Self-Run Crowdfunding Campaign
Crowdfunding

The U.K.-based equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube raised £1.5 million ($2.3 million) though a self-run campaign, the company announced last week. 

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Anton RootMay 13, 2013 04:15 pm GMT1595 views
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Trump, Quirky Greet the Crowd: The Week in Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding
Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding

Listen to our bite-sized podcast of the week's top crowdsourcing and crowdfunding headlines, in which we cover all the most important developments in the industries and the broader world of the crowd, and all in less than 10 minutes.

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Eric MackMay 12, 2013 02:22 pm GMT1132 views
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Donald Trump Wants To FundAnything - The Crowded Room #23
Crowd Creativity, Crowdfunding, Open Innovation

In this full half-hour version of the Crowded Room podcast, Episode 23, Eric Mack, Eric Blattberg and Anton Root cover all the week's headlines and go in-depth to discuss Donald Trump's new crowdfunding venture and the notion of Quirky stores coming to a city near you... or at least to Oklahoma City.

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Eric MackMay 12, 2013 01:48 pm GMT1315 views
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Zach Braff Responds to Kickstarter Critics in His Own Words
Crowdfunding

The rise of celebrity crowdfunding, from the uber-successful campaign to fund a Veronica Mars movie to Donald Trump's just-launched platform, has drawn both praise and the ire of the crowd. The target of perhaps the most vocal criticism thus far has been actor/writer/director Zach Braff, who responds in this video.

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Eric MackMay 10, 2013 11:07 pm GMT1160 views
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