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You Can Crowdfund a Politician but you Can’t Crowdfund an Entrepreneur?
On Tuesday January 24, 2012 President Obama delivered the State of the Union Address. He highlighted the challenges the economy faces and the direction in which we need to take the country. One of the nation’s biggest challenges he highlighted…
February 4th A Thank You to our Early Adopters!
Daily Crowdsource would like to thank the early adopters and supporters of our research efforts with some proper recognition. The following are all crowdfunding companies who have helped us begin to crowdfund our research report on the crowdfunding field. We…
The Rise of Crowdfunding
After the release of our crowdsourcing report on enterprise grade microtasking, Daily Crowdsource has been encouraged by crowdfunding companies from around the world to create a report that blasts open and examines the current state of crowdfunding. The excitement around the Entreprenuer Access…
US Based Rival, Brandstack.com has been Taken Over by DesignCrowd
For an undisclosed price, DesignCrowd has purchased Brandstack services, who are best known for their ability to generate ready-made logos through crowdsourcing. The brand plans to reinvent Brandstack by launching BrandCrowd.com. According to the CEO of DesignCrowd, Alec Lynch, the new…
The Health Care Innovation Challenge Enters the Next Phase
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently challenged all comers to devise the most compelling new ideas to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people with the most pressing health care needs. The innovations must…
Study Finds Traditional BPO Outsourcing Costs 70 Percent More than Enterprise Crowdsourcing
On Dec 6th, the Everest Group and Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. in Dallas, TX and Waltham, Mass announced the results of a study called “Every Crowd has a Silver Lining.” The study revealed a number of factors– the most important of which is that enterprise crowdsourcing…
Acabiz, the Academia to Business Knowledge Platform, reaches 1.6k Academic Experts
Acabiz, the Milan-based crowdsourcing company, which connects academic experts and companies looking for niche knowledge & know-how, has now reached 1.6k academic experts. Acabiz’s academic experts really come from every corner of the world; at the moment though, the UK…
RICS Considers Crowdsourcing for Land Tenure Issues
RICS, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, is considering crowdsourcing to provide slum dwellers with some degree of land tenure. Currently, of the world’s 6 billion land parcels, only 1.5 billion have registered land rights. This means that billions of…
Bringing Patents Into the Digital Age via Open Innovation Competitions
How do you attempt innovation when it has never been done before? Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing competitions are proving to be a remarkable way to experiment when there is no clear path forward. The sheer number of submissions – and…
The Sky’s The Limit With Cloudlogo.com
Anybody interested in acquiring the skills of a talented logo designer will be happy to know that there now exists a unique portal where they can gain access to the cream of the crop. Cloudlogo.com specializes in the crowdsourcing of logo…
Seedups Offers Financial Support to Start-up Tech Businesses
All start-ups tech businesses in need of funding will be happy to hear that a helping hand is available. Seedups, the intelligent crowdfunding site, is joining many throughout the world and celebrating entrepreneurship. In doing so, they are not holding…
Crowdfunding Makes its Debut in Czech Republic
Fondomat, located in the Czech Republic, is a crowdsourcing platform that helps fund creative, new business and charity-based endeavors. It is currently the cheapest to use on the market compared to those companies who offer similar services. There are very…
DesignCrowd Receives $3M Investment for a Fairer, Higher Quality Crowdsourcing Model
DesignCrowd, an Australian crowdsourcing website, recently received $3M in venture capital from Starfish Ventures. The purpose of the investment is to bring a new, fairer, and higher-quality form of crowdsourcing to the US market. DesignCrowd fixes the problems with traditional design…
Google Maps Improves Accuracy with Help of Canadian Citizens
As part of the navigation system industry’s overall drive to improve map accuracy, Google Maps has enlisted the help of Canadian citizens in the form of crowdsourcing. Much like the way that Wikepedia crowdsources to the public for factual information, Google…
‘Great Little Place’ Proves To Be Great Little Crowdfunded Platform
It was not too long ago that a little conduit called ‘Great Little Place’ was introduced to Facebook. Now, through the power of crowdsourcing, Great Little Place has become a popular location-focused social networking tool. Co-founder Rich Brown describes the…
Crowdfunded, Socially-Motivated Businesses Offer Inspiration
Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is the person backing a new crowdsourcing online community set to fund the schemes and ideas of green and social entrepreneurs. Fearnley-Whittingstall, a well-known campaigner, and Peoplefund.it, a new social enterprise platform, aim to support and…
Young People Play a Pivotal Role in Rewriting the UNAIDS Strategy
On October 31st the Joint United Nations Program, UNAIDS, launched its first crowdsourcing campaign designed to include young people in finding solutions to HIV/AIDS. The purpose of UNAIDS is to make HIV prevention and treatment available worldwide. They plan to…
Perhaps Crowdsourcing Found Genghis Khan
Crowdsourcing has been used to accomplish astounding tasks that, in the past, seemed nearly impossible. Now, with the help of high-tech imaging tools and the power of the crowd, locating the tomb of Genghis Khan could soon be added to…
Daily Crowdsource to Hold Webinar on the Future of Crowdsourcing
Daily Crowdsource today announced the start of a three part webinar series on the Future of Crowdsourcing, featuring in-depth discussions with some of Crowdsourcing’s top leaders. This series focuses on the microtasking division, and will offer viewers a chance to…
The Benefits of Crowdfunding Aligned with a Charity
Daily Crowdsource has published a number of articles on HelpersUnite.com lately, and Microvolunteering Wednesdays has taken note! Rather than recapping what the service does, which is to help align creatives with a cause while creating a crowdfunding project. Let’s look at another…
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