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A look around the world at the growth of crowdfunding, from Latin America to Europe.
The man behind Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for many months to avoid being extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault charges, and now he’s also running a campaign for office from there as well.
A microtasking platform that’s also about doing a little good and Google’s crowdsourcing fails and wins. Just a few of the topics in this installment of the Crowded Room with special guest Casey Armstrong from VineStove.
Draft multiple-choice examination seeks to educate and qualify new/unsophisticated investors by outlining common “risk factors” or “red flags” for online investing.
Before software ever reaches the hands of the users it’s intended for, it gets tested for hours and hours in all sorts of environments and scenarios. But in the modern and increasingly decentralized enterprise, there’s an almost infinite number of variables to test for that are often beyond the capabilities of an in-house testing team. Not surprisingly, this is where the crowd can play a critical role.
The FSA, Britain’s financial regulatory body, recently authorized the equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The authorization will allow investors on Crowdcube to take advantage of protections and services offered by the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
It appears that the crowd is finally striving to be as powerful as the Galactic Empire itself. A project on Kickstarter’s UK site seeks to crowdfund the building of a real world Death Star, a plan that was rejected by the Obama administration after its own rules forced it to respond to the request that came via a crowdsourced petition.
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Lay’s announced the three winners of the ‘Do Us a Flavor’ crowdsourcing campaign earlier this week. Chicken and Waffles, Cheesy Garlic Bread, and Sriracha all made it to the final round.
The Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA) has been promoting innovation in the state through the Open Innovation Incentive (OII). We recently spoke with ODSA representatives to learn more about the program, and got further feedback from NineSigma, one of the companies involved with OII.
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