When it comes to leveraging crowdsourcing and the power of community building no one does it better than Go-Fund Me, a free social fundraising company out of California. With a unique value proposition and transparent business model, the mission at […]
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Topcoder: An Original Platform for Crowdsourcing Solutions
Topcoder is a platform that host the world’s largest community of competitive designers, developers, and data scientists to offer on-demand crowdsourcing solutions to its clients.
reCAPTCHA: The Brilliant Business Model that Only One Man Could Create
reCAPTCHA’s founder used hidden crowdsourcing to solve two problems at once. But few have replicated his model.
Building Solutions on TopCoder
Leveraging the crowd, competition, and a marketplace platform to develop solutions through TopCoder.
The Largest Secret Santa Exchange in the World
RedditGifts lets you exchange gifts with strangers on the internet, and it’s less creepy than it sounds.
GoFundMe: Leveraging Crowds for Good
GoFundMe is an innovative crowdfunding platform that allows individuals to launch fundraising campaigns for initiatives that are important to them
Brainly – Leveraging the wisdom of the crowds to do your homework
Imagine you’re struggling with your calculus homework. If you really needed help you might have called your friend from class. But students today have a new option. Today, more than 100 million students are logging into Brainly to use the […]
Quantopian: the democratization of Wall Street?
As quant hedge funds approach the $1 trillion AUM mark can crowd-sourcing investment algorithms proof to be a sustainable strategy to get an edge over the competition?
Duolingo: Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Translate Language
Duolingo operates in a smart “twofer” model – offering free language courseware while monetizing the crowd-sourced content translated by its users.
Zooniverse: Anyone Can be a Researcher
Zooniverse if a platform that allows anyone to become a researcher by posting research projects for volunteers to partake in as well as allowing volunteers to post their own projects to gain help on.