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An exciting project that may have long-term effects on the crowdsourcing industry recently completed its fundraising on Kickstarter. The Bukobot, created by Diego Porqueras, aims to make 3D printers affordable, the most basic model costing only $599.
In April of this year the Brazilian market witnessed the first merger of crowdfunding platforms. Multidão, which was launched that same day, and Catarse have joined together to form the group Comum: a nonprofit organization aiming to stimulate crowdfunding in all its possibilities, from an open network to building an ecosystem to create value based on collaboration. Currently, the two sites coexist, and share similar focuses yet soon they will have their own directions.
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Scientists hope that frog lovers around the world will use the Global Amphibian Blitz to likewise help them fill in the gaps in the knowledge banks of all things webbed. Amateurs, friends of...
Junar’s Open Data Platform promises to make it easier for users to find the right data (regardless of its underlying format); enhance it with analytics; publish it; enable interaction with...
With that goal, the industrial designers at Quirky got to work, first by brainstorming with visitors to the Maker Faire in mid-May. “During Maker Faire we nailed down the concept,” Quirky designer...
Crowdsourcing.org recently connected with Marina Miranda from Colaboratorie Mutopo, a social production company that brands itself as “thinkers, makers, builders, designers, and producers who believe in the power of collaboration”. Miranda leads Mutopo’s business in Brazil, and shared some insight on the company’s vision there.
Natalia Garcia had a dream to travel to 12 world cities to see how it would be possible to live in a place designed for people – and not for cars. Natalia is a journalist and cyclist from São Paulo, Brazil. And Sao Paulo, is a really terrible place for cyclists and pedestrians. So, she decided to turn her idea into reality, and left her job at Editora Abril to launch the project Cidades para Pessoas (Cities for People), a dream that materialized through crowdfunding.
Brazilian crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platforms have had an explosion in growth in the first half of the year. But now, as we enter the second half, the major question is: can Brazil consolidate this growth?
According to Lee Barken, a San Diego CPA, "With startup companies struggling to raise funds and the capital markets still reeling from the banking crisis of 2008, the advent of crowd funding...
The SEC needs time to interpret the JOBS Act and clarify the rules and regulations that will govern this burgeoning financial industry. But that hasn’t stopped a fresh collection of crowdfunding platforms, each with the intention of becoming the Kickstarter of equity, from preemptively emerging to fill the U.S. void. Here are four recently launched platforms worth watching.
Launched on May 10, 2010, GoFundMe is one of the most widely used crowdfunding websites in the World. The service allows regular people to accomplish extraordinary things with easy-to-use personal...
Open innovation is rapidly changing the way organizations tackle tough problems. Even the United States government loves open innovation, using its Challenge.gov platform to monitor pollution, improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and crowdsource a “next-generation” combat vehicle, among other initiatives.
ChallengePost, which runs Challenge.gov for the federal government in addition to software competitions for private companies, firmly believes that competition breeds innovation. We spoke with Brian Koles, business development manager at ChallengePost, who explained the myriad benefits of open innovation.
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