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Nokia Taps into the Crowd for Next Generation HERE Maps - Crowdsourcing.org

Nokia Taps into the Crowd for Next Generation HERE Maps - Crowdsourcing.org | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
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Nokia Taps into the Crowd for Next Generation HERE Maps
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Nokia's HERE maps will make use of crowdsourcing, the company announced last week. The community-powered process is currently being tested in India.
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Nokia - maps

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Setting Up a Crowdsourcing Effort? Read This First. - Doron Reuveni

Setting Up a Crowdsourcing Effort? Read This First. - Doron Reuveni | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.
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Tips on crowd sourcing - must read

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The Solution Economy: How New Players Are Solving Old Problems - PBS

The Solution Economy: How New Players Are Solving Old Problems - PBS | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
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The Solution Economy: How New Players Are Solving Old Problems
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Reward Ride awards points to riders and drivers who can trade points for rides of their own, creating a micro-economy in the process.
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Power to the problem solvers

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Actor Max Martini Crowd-Funding Film for Vets

Actor Max Martini Crowd-Funding Film for Vets | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Actor hopes to raise money and awareness for vets suffering brain injuries with his film.
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Right on Max

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Here's when crowdsourcing actually works - Fox News

Here's when crowdsourcing actually works - Fox News | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Here's when crowdsourcing actually works
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Sometimes, being a part of a crowd is a good thing. Sometimes, not so much. Crowdsourcing was supposed to be the Big Idea that leveraged the interconnectedness of the Internet.
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When Crowd sourcing actually works

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Crowdsourcing: Open Innovation at its Finest - Business 2 Community

Crowdsourcing: Open Innovation at its Finest - Business 2 Community | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Crowdsourcing: Open Innovation at its Finest Business 2 Community There are approximately 7 billion+ people wandering around this planet at any given time, about 3/4 of which are considered adults and, if we're being generous, have the potential to...
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Crowdsourcing: Open Innovation at its Finest Business 2 Community - Love it

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Kickstarter and the Perils of Crowdfunding! PLUS: Video Game Preservation - SESSLER'S ...SOMETHING

This week on Sessler's Something, Adam reflects on the recent news that Double Fine's "Broken Age" Kickstarter project will need some additional money to rea...
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The challenges of crowd funding

 

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Crowdfunding The Future - Yahoo!7 News

Crowdfunding The Future - Yahoo!7 News | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
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She set up a project on Pozible, the Australian market leader in crowdfunding platforms, where friends, family and potentially anyone in the world could pledge any sum of money.

Via Laurelle Johnson, MBA
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Even my fellow countrymen (Down Under) are in on the Crowd Funding thing - I am making it official crowd funding is Global and can compete across all of the globla markets as an alternative to investing on Wall Street.

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Why is crowd-funding site Kickstarter so popular? - Video on TODAY.com

Why is crowd-funding site Kickstarter so popular? - Video on TODAY.com | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Video on Today: The crowd-funding site is helping some independent creators, including well known filmmakers like Spike Lee, fund their passion projects.

Via Marty Koenig
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Film crowd-funding for the novice

Marty Koenig's curator insight, August 31, 2013 10:36 AM

Only 20% have ever heard of Crowdfunding. Maybe this will bump it up to 21%. 

Marie-Brigitte Souci's curator insight, August 31, 2013 7:36 PM

Crowdfunding is the hottest thing in the entrepreneurial arena. #BrigitteSouci

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FUNDING: Micro Grants for Positive Impact Projects

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Micro grants for your non-profit - Nice - I can see myself using this in the future

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From inside Intel Labs: using sensors, data, and LEDs to make cities better | GigaOM Tech News

From inside Intel Labs: using sensors, data, and LEDs to make cities better | GigaOM Tech News | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it

Intel’s blue sky research group Intel Labs is tinkering with public sensors, big data and algorithms to create experimental ways to track environmental conditions in cities. During Intel Lab’s annual show-and-tell in San Francisco last week, Intel showed off some of these futuristic concepts (as well as how to put a projector in a phone).

 

Here’s three ways that Intel Labs is looking to make cities better, from reducing allergies, to crowd-sourcing city programs to using LEDs to reduce traffic accidents.

 

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Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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A different take by Intel on crowd sourcing, nice idea 

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Asia's Media Innovators Volume 3: Crowdsourcing in Asian Journalism

Asia's Media Innovators Volume 3: Crowdsourcing in Asian Journalism | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Crowdsourcing occurs when media companies solicit content from the audience. Much of the time that process involves digital tools and invokes social media.
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The Aisans aren't waiting on crowd-funding either

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September 29, 2013 12:54 PM
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The future of crowd-sourced funding in the UK

The future of crowd-sourced funding in the UK | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Peer-to-peer lending and equity crowdfunding platforms provide online marketplaces which link individuals and businesses to small-scale investors.

Via P2P Consultants
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The UK getting in on the act - the future of crowd sourced funding - excellent article

P2P Consultants's curator insight, July 28, 2013 7:06 PM

Get a interesting report on future of crowd sourced funding in the UK

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Postmortem: Gods Will Be Watching crowdfunding - Independent ...

Postmortem: Gods Will Be Watching crowdfunding - Independent ... | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
[by Jordi de Paco]. It's been a month since we finished our successful crowdfunding campaign for Gods Will Be Watching, collecting 20.385€ or more than $25,000. Now Deconstructeam is putting 120% effort into our first ...
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Gods?  Hmmm. Wall Street had better watch out

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HP Portal Crowdsources Security Threat Intelligence

HP Portal Crowdsources Security Threat Intelligence | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
HP's push for crowdsourced threat intelligence sharing reflects how the best security tools in the world won't save enterprises if they don't know what types of emerging threats they're facing. "The things that have been ...
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Crowd Sourcing Threat Intelligence - nice

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Business Leaders Series: Micro-enterprise, Start-ups, and New Funding Frontiers 11.15.12Freelancer with Fiverr Dollars | Freelancer with Fiverr Dollars

Business Leaders Series: Micro-enterprise, Start-ups, and New Funding Frontiers 11.15.12Freelancer with Fiverr Dollars | Freelancer with Fiverr Dollars | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Tania Menesse, Director of Economic Development, City of Shaker Heights; Eric Diamond, VP Economic and Community Development (Business Leaders Series:...
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Now this is an interesting trend

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Combating inflation with crowdsourcing - Daily News & Analysis

Combating inflation with crowdsourcing - Daily News & Analysis | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Combating inflation with crowdsourcing Daily News & Analysis The technique, popularly known as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, has successfully been used to gather finance and resources for various types of projects, from movies to social causes,...
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How to combat inflation

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Most Effective Crowd Funding Tips For Startups

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Crowd funding however, has taken off in the last few years in a manner that even its most optimistic proponents (Most Effective #Crowd #Funding Tips For Startups | @ModernLifeBlogs http://t.co/6mtGo0jsJ6...
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Best Practices for Crowd Funing

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Learning CrowdFunding, help and assist CrowdFunding Campaigns frameworks, education

http://http://www.crowdfundingplanning.com http://goo.gl/1k1D1 Call: Phone: 877- 448-4968 Email: Contactus@CrowdFundingplanning.com mentors: http://goo.gl/AK...
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Get educated about Crowd Fundng

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MicroSourcing: Company Overview

An offshoring and outsourcing solutions provider, MicroSourcing enables foreign companies to easily set up operations in the Philippines while allowing them ...
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Get connected w/ suppliers any where you need them - check it out, here is what they are doing in the Philippines 

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Creating a Winning Design on a Crowdsourcing Platform [Infographic] - Crowdsourcing.org

Creating a Winning Design on a Crowdsourcing Platform [Infographic] - Crowdsourcing.org | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Crowdsourcing.org Creating a Winning Design on a Crowdsourcing Platform [Infographic] Crowdsourcing.org Indeed, the speculative nature of the work has attracted ire from some groups, though crowdsourcing advocates respond that the opportunities...

Via Laurelle Johnson, MBA
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Have your design reviewed on a crowdsourcing platform

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Innovation Vouchers - Round 5 - Funding competition - innovateuk

Innovation Vouchers - Round 5 - Funding competition - innovateuk | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
Up to £5k funding for for start-up, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to work with an...
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A micor-funding competition, cool

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Want to Invest in Crowdfunding? Read This First - Motley Fool

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Want to raise funding for a pizza museum in Philly? Been there. How about a funeral? Done that. Maybe a crowdfunded porta-potty?

Via Nancy Chorpenning
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Motley Fool giving you some insights on investing in Crowdfunding - start your reading here

Nancy Chorpenning's curator insight, September 25, 2013 3:25 PM

Excellent summary of the state of crowdfunding today, and the impact of the latest rollout of Title II.

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Digital Hollywood 2012: Crowd Funding – The New World Financial Source “the story” is king

Digital Hollywood 2012: Crowd Funding – The New World Financial Source “the story” is king | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it

Geoffrey Maingart: "One of the most important subjects of the conference was “crowdfunding,” the great alternative way to fund a venture, and it can be done without giving up equity or accumulating debt" ...


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New Venture funding that even celebrities are involving themselves in

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Scientists calling on the crowd for funding - Boston Globe

Scientists calling on the crowd for funding - Boston Globe | Crowd Funding, Micro-funding, New Approach for Investors - Alternatives to Wall Street | Scoop.it
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Scientists calling on the crowd for funding
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Facing a stark federal budget to support scientific research, Hiller and other scientists have begun experimenting with crowdfunding their research.

Via VERONICA LESTER
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The new move in start-ups and getting funding, go global and get cash from others who buy into your dream - better have a business plan

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