Aviation has long used crowds to increase flight safety in the form of the pilot report, or PIREP. Digital transformation combined with a renewed commitment to the crowd could further reduce in-air risk and even save lives.
Crowds
Pandering to Beauty Junkies
How Julep uses its IdeaLab Crowd in Product Innovation
SoFi: Crowdfunding Student Debt
SoFi is a non-bank lender leveraging crowdfunding to transform student loan markets
TapTape – When artists make money, fans make money
TapTape aims to help fund projects for musicians, while also giving fans/investors upside in the artists’ success. These fans now have an incentive to help promote and grow the fanbase of the artists they are invested in. For artists, the funding source pie just got a lot bigger.
Cumplo.cl: Debt crowdfunding in Chile
Cumplo.cl is a crowdfunding platform that is looking to increase access to the debt market at affordable rates for individuals and SMEs, but regulatory issues have come in their way.
Oscar: Flirting with behavioral risk based pricing strategies
Introducing data collection through emerging technologies to innovate in the heavily regulated space of insurance companies
Spacehive: Crowdfunding Civic Projects in Great Britain
Spacehive democratizes urban planning by funding projects directly through the crowd.
Funding Rush Hour 4: Crowdfunding Non-Blockbuster Movie Sequels
Crowdfunding non-blockbuster movie sequels would reduce the cost and risk to studios and capture the willingness to pay of fans eager to see the sequel to a movie they already loved.
Cat-Video Lover seeks Comedic Creator: YouTube’s Dominance in Crowd Management
YouTube: where the winners become international superstars and the losers still get to laugh at a drugged up kid on his way home from the dentist.
Hype Machine: The Crowd-Sourced Music Blog
Founded in 2005, Hype Machine sources music through a hand-picked catalogue of music blogs from around the world.