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Through crowdsourcing, Green Owl’s TrafficAlert app provides reporting on traffic hotspots around Toronto (and Buffalo, Boston and Vancouver). But it does it via the driver’s smart phone —...
Perhaps the difference is that Unbound isn’t just a crowdfunding site. It also takes steps into the breach as the publisher of those works. In fact, it’s possible that it’s actually misleading to...
Open Innovation is not just a niche issue or another management hype but rather a deep and long change management trend; 1) All companies claim they need to keep innovating-Innovation became...
Here are some of the many start-ups targeting a niche crowd: Start-Ups: Sites like Fundable.com, Bolstr.com and EarlyShares.com. Game Developers:Gambitious targets game development and...
7String Volume 1 has already received rave reviews from peers and critics alike, and now the Salisbury-based creator is hoping to continue the success by appealing for fans worldwide to...
Today, they look at the following apps: 1) Barclays, widely dubbed as ‘revolutionary’. Barclays Pingit really could change the face of mobile banking, especially if the app evolves to include...
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...
The Dream Matcher is planning to go further, introducing an app in the near future that will alert you “with a match” when you are in a public place and one of your dreams can be accomplished with...
Authr.com - Get Paid to write your Book. Great Niche crowd funding site for authors.
Committing hours to open call questions is one of the better ideas stemming from crowdsourced platforms. Taking this up offers a lot of advantages including: 1) Increasing Thought Leadership....
Though creative crowdsourcing platforms have been around for some time, newcomers are still finding niches and jumping into the market. We recently caught up with Adtriboo's Antara Phookan, who explained how her platform, which launched just over a year ago, is targeting the Spanish-speaking market and shared some of the company's plans for 2013.
"Crowdfunding: go equity or go home"....okay, so this is not to say that various forms of crowdfunding (e.g. 'pledge', lending, revenue-share) are without valid niches. Pledge crowdfunding, for example, can be fantastic for various fan-centric projects. But equity-based crowdfunding is at the center of crowdfunding's future ecosystem for typical high-risk startups.
This is purely a mathematical reality. There are a proliferation of crowdfunding platforms emerging, many with investment models destined for niches at best, and the 'dust bin' at worst. I wanted to give some clarity, as many haven't thought through the macro picture. Again, this is a discussion aimed at early stage 'angel' style investments in risky startups.
Africa Unsigned is targeting a continent and niche that is often overlooked in today's world due to the negative publicity that is generally channeled towards the African continent. Instead of...
Given the current proliferation of crowdfunding sites focused on projects, Gigfunder's focus on touring not only differentiates it from related services but creates a crowdfunding niche that...
Many B2B professionals, particularly in technical disciplines, work in highly-specialized fields where new developments are hard to track and like-minded peers are difficult to find. Professional...
Ryan Wallis, founder of the white label crowdfunding platform Hybrid Funding shares his thoughts on how aspiring platform operators should enter the crowdfunding market. His advice? Pick a niche, not a fight with the crowdfunding giants.
In this guest post, CrowdsUnite CEO and founder Alex Feldman predicts the shape and scope of the crowdfunding industry in the coming years.
SaveOurCommunityTheaters.org seeks to utilize niche or "neighborhood marketing" to create a community of resources and ideas that are locally driven and specifically targeted. Instead...
Many scientific advancements in prior centuries can be attributed to a single individual or, at most, two to three people that have either independently or jointly innovated. However, advances in technology, global communications and social interactions have meant that the 21st century will be recognized as the century where mass collaboration changes the paradigm.
Citizen Science has become more of a differentiator as scientists are now turning to crowdsourcing to engage large communities of home scientists to help process vast amounts of data and to draw accurate conclusions from scientific research.
Internet spawned ventures like Flickr and iStockphoto providing stock photography at a fraction of the price of professional stock photography changed the paradigm as photo stock became available and affordable to the masses. So fundamental was the change that rather than be cannibalized, Getty Images, “the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content”, cannibalized the cannibal, acquiring iStockphoto in February 2006.
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