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Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas Biewald was a senior scientist and manager within the ranking and management team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later...
Lukas Biewald presented an extensive break down of MTurk workers on the basis of country/continent – with India making up 46.85% increasing its percentage compared to past survey figures and US...
Lukas Biewald's presentation during the Conferencia Crowdsourcing Comunidades e Co-Criação in Sao Paulo, Brazil last August 29, 2011, points to how fast crowdsourcing is growing....
In this episode of our podcast, From the Crowd, we talk to Crowdflower CEO and CrowdConf host Lukas Biewald about the third crowdsourcing conference, CrowdConf 2012, set for October 23 in San Francisco.
Are there mechanisms that reach deeper into the economic system, which make crowdsourcing solutions truly indispensable? Lukas Biewald is convinced of this. What is the reason behind the rapid success of the business practice of crowdsourcing? "Companies aren’t doing it because it is cheaper, but also because its better," said Biewald at CrowdConvention last week. Click here for German.
„Letztes Jahr hatte ich ein einschneidendes Erlebnis auf der CrowdConf in San Francisco. Als ich die Frage stellte, wer schon von Crowdsourcing gehört habe, erntete ich schallendes Gelächter“....
CrowdFlower, the San Francisco-based crowdsourcing company, will announce significant management changes later today. Co-Founder and CEO Lukas Biewald will be replaced by Woody Hobbs, a veteran executive with experience at both technology and financial service firms. CrowdFlower will also appoint Richard Arnold as CFO and VP of strategy and corporate development. Hobbs and Arnold have worked together on three previous ventures. including serving as CEO and CFO of the mobile software provider Intellisync when it was acquired by Nokia for $430 million in 2006.
Dolores Labs, renamed CrowdFlower in January 2010, was founded by Biewald in and Chis Van Pelt in 2007, and quickly became one of the most reputable firms utilizing Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform. Biewald brought methodological rigor to an oft-disparaged category of crowdsourcing. Biewald and company were rewarded with considerable interest from the venture capital community. In March of last year CrowdFlower raised $5 million in Series A funding and in March this year raised an additional $7 million.
This video features Lukas Biewald, former CEO of CrowdFlower and Jason Aiken, Community Director, 99designs. Biewald and Aiken discuss quality controls in the crowdsource space. Other topics...
Lukas Biewald has a few pieces of advice for entrepreneurs based on his experience raising capital: 1. Don’t raise money if you don’t absolutely have to. 2. Choose large investors and...
“I thought maybe we could crowdsource it,” Sarah Fortune recalled yesterday in front of a packed house at PopTech 2011. So she asked onstage, ‘Is there an app for that?’ Unbelievably, someone in...
CrowdFlower CEO and CrowdConf Host Lukas Biewald gives his welcome and opening remarks at CrowdConf 2011 in San Francisco.
While at Google HQ, Jason sat down with Lukas Biewald of CrowdFlower to talk about the global crowd sourced marketplace, the future of outsourced labor and the dynamics of a free market.
Lukas Biewald is CEO and founder of CrowdFlower, a crowdsourcing Internet company that breaks large digital projects into small microtasks and distributes them to workers around the world. "We...
Lukas "CrowdFlower" Biewald discussed about the topic entitled “Better Crowdsourcing through Automated Methods for Quality Control”. According to Lukas, it's amazing to see...
Sarah Fortune, TB expert, and Lukas Biewald, CEO of the crowdsourcing start-up, Crowdflower, pair up through PopTech to crowdsource a task best done by the human eye: cataloging TB’s bacterial...
In online community based “labor on demand” models, employees are a crowdsourced workforce - who work from home, when needed, on specific projects. The aim is to get work done using a mass of...
In the future, crowdsourcing is going to get bigger and bigger as more jobs will be generated. One interesting point in the video is that the future of work no longer requires people to be in one...
Where: CrowdFlower 3265 17th Street, Suite 302 San Francisco, CA 94110 When: February 16 from 5:30–8:30 p.m. Speakers start at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to guarantee your space. Don't...
Crowdsourced labor has begun to level the playing field with respect to job access. This lends greater meritocracy to the job market: it is a natural extension of what the Internet has already...
Some of the speakers during the CrowdConvention were the following: Jeff Howe Harri Holopainen Pia Erkinheimo Carl Esposti Sigrid Ruppert Ville Mietinnen Mark Krause Lukas Biewald
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