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Launched in March by a team including Virginia-based Mobelux, Elixr bills itself as “an iPhone app and social network that celebrates the pleasure of sharing a great drink, like a cocktail,...
Last night there was another SoHo Loft event in New York City. A few hundred people crowded into a space not far from Central Park for a "Crowdfunding and Cocktails" event that featured some compelling discussion from a great panel. SoHo Loft series co-founder Dara Albright kicked off the evening with these comments and reflections on the recent major events with respect to crowdfunding in the United States. I'll also be sharing video from the panel discussion soon.
According to NewsiT founder Melinda Wittstock in an interview, "NewsiT is all about your crowd and your story. People come together around interests they share and people they trust, to create...
BriskPic, is a photo sharing contest where the winning photos will be displayed on the new Brisk can. Winners will be announced at SXSW. So, what are you waiting for? Start sharing those photos!
Behance Network is the leading online platform to showcase and discover creative work. Creative professionals, from across industries, use Behance to create multi-media portfolios that showcase...
Distributed Knowledge is the most discussed type of crowdsourcing, with the category’s top 15 platforms garnering nearly nine million social media mentions during the examined one-year timeframe. There’s a reason, after all, that the cocktail party definition of crowdsourcing is “Wikipedia, for everything.” Speaking of the community-authored encyclopedia, Wikipedia ranks highest in “absolute buzz” among Distributed Knowledge sites, racking up 2,216,124 total mentions. Social news aggregator Digg comes in a close second with 2,118,646 mentions, followed by social news site Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” which garnered 1,747,223 mentions. Discovery engine StumbleUpon and TomTom, a GPS navigation company that crowdsources map info, round out the top five with 1,247,871 and 476,283 mentions respectively.
Last year, he raised his target £180,000 through a crowd-funding website — a way to get money for a new business idea from online investors. Kammerling knows the London bar scene well, having...
At last check the Pebble Smartwatch has rounded up over $8 million on Kickstarter with two weeks left to go in the campaign. That's a figure that shatters all previous crowdfunding records on Kickstarter and most other platforms.
Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky will be sharing their success story at the next Crowdfunding & Cocktails Event in Palo Alto on May 9th. The gathering is part of the SoHo Loft series of Capital Creation and Crowdfunding events. (You can see a little of Crowdsourcing.org's coverage of the last Crowdfunding and Cocktails event in Manhattan here.)
Matt Mickiewicz is an Internet entrepreneur, Forbes 30 under 30, Inc Magazine 30 under 30, and cofounder of 99designs, SitePoint, and Flippa. Tech Cocktail sat down for a conversation as he shared...
The concept is that users will be able to order up personalized cocktail recipes on demand through their smartphone application and transform them into crowd-sourced drink combinations. Read...
Makr Shakr - a new robotic bartending system designed by researchers at the MIT Senseable City Lab - unveiled at Google I/O in San Francisco. The new mixology system allows users to create in...
In the first part of Crowdsourcing.org's interview with Dialogue Earth's Tom Masterman, we discussed issues related to the often-difficult decision whether or not to crowdsource the creation of video content. Part two of our interview focuses on considerations needed once the decision is made to move forward on a crowdsourcing project.
In this piece, Masterman answers Crowdsourcing.org’s questions on the issues of time to execute, project phases, and worker incentives and managing the interaction with the creative crowd.
With little favours you can: Do someone a favour and earn a little money Ask the community for a favour and offer some money in return Examples of little favours could be: Art /...
On the concept of crowdsourcing, Peter LaMotte suggested that the concept does not inherently guarantee success. The trick is picking the right step of the creative process to crowdsource. Peter...
Based on Leslie Bradshaw's slide presentation, the 4 things startups need to know about design and working with designers are as follows: 1. Design needs a strategic leadership role and...
If you lack funds for conducting a science research project, you can resort to crowdfunding through FundScience, SciFlies and EurekaFund. All three organizations aim to finance small-scale...
Forkly makes it ridiculously easy to match your taste buds with the food and restaurants around you. Capture and share your tastes while dining out, and Forkly will help you discover a new...
Bartender for Android is the go-to app to learn how to mix just about anything, including a number of drinks you probably didn't know existed. The app's database is entirely...
The Brooklyn Brainery's topics are crowd-suggested and teacher driven; upcoming classes include soda making, foreign alphabets, cocktail alchemy, surviving in post-apocalyptic New York,...
On September 28, 2011, the city of Lisbon hosted the first international crowdfunding event in Portugal. To the 400 attendees and webcast viewers, the event introduced the concept of crowdfunding in its various forms, its potential, requirements and risks, focusing on two of the most successful cases in Europe, Symbid and Crowdcube.
Pedro Oliveira, professor in Catolica Lisbon and founder of PPL (Crowdfunding Portugal) kicked things off with a general intro to crowdfunding, followed by Korstiaan Zandvliet’s presentation of Symbid, a reference equity crowdfunding case from Holland. Symbid is an equity-based online investment platform that enables individuals to directly invest in start-ups or existing ventures in exchange for an equity stake in the company. With investments ranging from as little as €20 to as much as €2,500,000, just about anyone can invest through Symbid.
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
