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Carpe Donut's Matt Rohdie calls the Seed-ville model "bottom up investing rather than outside investors," and he says he loves the idea that the fundraising has a local emphasis–...
"The cool thing about being an entrepreneur is that you get to do everything." Microtask enables efficient global trading of task-based digital labor for enterprises. Ville covers...
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Microtask CEO Ville Miettinen covers all the steps that brought Microtask together: the idea inception, its evolution, the early days, funding, the background of the Management Team, the learning...
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Resident expert Ville Miettinen, CEO of MicroTask, ponders the future of the city, with a little help from TED and the crowd.
Ville Miettinen writes in once again, this time discussing the definition of crowdsourcing. He highlights two recent studies of the crowdsourcing process which hope to narrow down and phrase exactly what crowdsourcing is. While one study produced a detailed technical analysis of the various crowdsourcing processes and mechanisms, the other took a more philosophical approach to try and come up with the simplest possible definition.
A new hybrid crowdfunding startup has emerged out of the University of Virginia called Seedville.The Charlottesville startup allows local residents to crowdfund local businesses. In it’s current...
In this video, the following thought leaders discussed about the wide range of possibilities, benefits and the challenges that crowdsourcing can offer: Dan Scholnick - Principal, Trinity...
Ville Miettinen, Microtask of Microtask discussed about the topic entitled, “Digitalkoot – Electrifying the Finnish Cultural Heritage” during the Crowdconvention 2011 which was held in Berlin...
A recap of the Crowdconvention in Berlin: Jeff Howe gave big thanks to better applications that became available for every consumer and artist. Lukas Biewald, CEO of CrowdFlower introduced...
It is now possible to buy something pretty close to a Star Trek replicator for a few hundred dollars (or a few thousand if you don't want to play Scottie and build from a kit). The era of 3D printing is upon us, and if you listen to some of its devotees, it's going to change the world.
In Charlottesville, clothing company Robert Redd launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise nearly $300,000 to fund a new T-shirt line. Director of operations Todd Campbell explained, “We’ve been...
Other than politicians and bankers, few types of people come in for as much abuse as amateurs. The word itself is practically an insult: a goal gets fumbled, an actor forgets his lines and what time is it? Amateur hour. Maybe it’s just me, but a guy who says he’s “an amateur” usually has a weird look in his eyes and talks a lot about steam trains.
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
The power of the wise crowd depends on its diversity. By replacing the traditional team of experts, each with their own specialist area (like the one that produced the Deepwater Horizon risk...
Far from turning on its creators like a modern day Frankenstein's monster, technology may in fact help us to deal with the ever-swelling deluge of data that is clogging up the hard drives of the world's research departments.
Companies who want to take advantage of crowdsourced design must fully commit to the model, and not hold it at arm's length or treat it as a fad. Crowdsourcing doesn't mean a dilution of ideas, or a homogenization. It can lead to inspired solutions to complex problems, as long as the crowd is allowed to be a crowd. After all, while horses may be sleek and elegant, sometimes a good hump is exactly what you need.
UVA Senior Kevin Pujanauski, who graduates this month from the political honors and global development studies programs, said he was having a beer with a buddy when the idea came to him: a...
With so many truly terrible cards on the market, it's no wonder that consumers are growing wary. But what if you could, like Batman, create your own credit card and write the small print yourself? That's what Barclays are promising with the launch of Barclaycard Ring, its new 'crowdsourced credit card.'
Back in 2010, economics and psychology Professor Joseph Henrich confirmed what many of us have suspected for a while: that students who took part in psychological studies were predominantly WEIRD.
Part of the reason The Matrix burned such an indelible mark on the world’s imagination was because it seemed so plausible (apart from the moments when the script calls for Keanu Reeves to convey emotions other than confusion). How do we know that we’re not the subjects of some elaborate simulation?
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