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Crowdsite Early Stage Start Up Plans / Slides
question Cloud Labor, Distributed Knowledge

Hi Does anyone know where you can read about, see slides of how large crowd source sites / apps got started eg - Instagram, DesignCrowd, Kiva etc, Their early pitches, how they got the first...

Alan MaclachlanJun 01, 2012 03:56 pm GMT2592 views
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