GenCrowd Founder Puts Down Temple Run To Talk Crowdsourcing
GenCrowd Founder Barun Rath believes mightily in crowdsourcing, so much so that he used the increasingly relied-upon tool to launch his own crowdsourcing platform. While some sites focus on specific business needs, Rath’s company looks to pool solutions for any type of business problem. Ask your question, name the price and the number of answers you’re willing to pay for, and accept only solutions that you find satisfactory. ...
How $35 Million Energized A Killer Debate About Crowdsourcing Pros And Cons
Crowdsourcing. Dirty word? An industry bubble? A new marketplace that’s with us for good? Some would say that the $35 million in venture capital funding 99designs received from Accel Partners last year sounded the last word. For other proponents and naysayers, the debate keeps raging on as fiercely as ever. So what’s the deal? For the uninitiated, crowdsourcing is a process by which a business outsources tasks to a large...
Squadhelp.com – Name Your Startup Collectively
We can define Squadhelp as a service that lets any entrepreneur get name recommendations for his next statup or venture by leveraging the wisdom of crowds. That is, through the site anybody can launch a naming contest and see what people from all over the world have to say. As any other site that bases its functioning on crowdsourced content, Squadhelp stands as a low cost alternative that will benefit small businesses most of all....