How Smart Angels Will Leverage Crowdfunding
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Here’s a short list of prerequisites they’ve developed at Crowdfunder to create a “smart” process for doing crowdfunded equity investment deals online:
-Outside Capital Sources: Deals should have first money committed, or in, from outside sources before looking for broader crowdfunding investors.
-Having a Lead Investor
-No Idea Stage Companies
-Accredited Investors
-Validate Ideas with Rewards-based Crowdfunding
SOURCE LINK to full article:http://www.forbes.com/sites/chancebarnett/2013/05/23/how-smart-angels-will-leverage-crowdfunding/
Tags: crowd-funding, crowdfunding, crowdfunding-knowledge, crowdsource, crowdsourcing, knowledge
Read More →GiftCards.com Agrees To Buy Giftly To Grow A Mobile Platform
GiftCards.com, a Pittsburgh-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco startup Giftly to grow out a mobile platform.
The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Giftly had raised about $2.8 million from investors including Baseline Ventures, SoftTech VC, Floodgate, Thrive Capital, and Techstars’ David Tisch.
Giftly’s acquisition follows a number of other ones. Karma was picked up very early by Facebook although it may not produce meaningful revenue for some time for the social network, according to its earnings results earlier this year. Another gifting startup, Giftiki, which pooled together people’s money to get gifts, was acquired by Launchrock.
Giftly built a platform that avoided the hassle of individually dealing with merchants and point-of-sale systems. They came out with a native mobile app last fall that made it easier to send presents to friends and family.
The company’s platform didn’t put any limitations on what kinds of presents you could send because the company had a web of relationships with banks and credit card processors. When a recipient would go to redeem their gift, they would pay out of their own pocket, but Giftly would reimburse them that amount through their credit card.
GiftCards.com said Giftly will be rolled into their operations, but will maintain offices in San Francisco.
“We will continue to build out Giftly,” said Giftly’s CEO Timothy Bentley. “Our backend infrastructure will be used for their next generation products. We’ll continue to expand
the ways our technology and services are available to developers, through our API, and merchants, through our merchant services.”
The company is also looking to raise a first venture round, even though it’s been around for more than 10 years. That round will go toward completing the acquisition of Giftly. GiftCards.com has been around since 1999; they sell personalized, pre-designed and discount gift cards.
Read More →With $1.5M Led By Winklevoss Capital, BitInstant Aims To Be The Go-To Site To Buy And Sell Bitcoins
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates who famously sparred with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook and are now working as tech investors through Winklevoss Capital, are part of the growing group of venture capitalists who have taken a keen interest in Bitcoins. Last month, it was revealed that they personally own roughly one percent of the currency, a stake worth the equivalent of some $11 million. And now, the Winklevosses tell TechCrunch they have invested in Bitcoin in another meaningful way — by leading a funding round for a startup in the space.
BitInstant, a New York City based startup that operates an online platform for buying and selling Bitcoins, has raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round led by Winklevoss Capital with the participation of other strategic investors including money services veteran David Azar. The investment was closed this past fall, but the Winklevosses are just now publicly announcing it in the lead-up to the Bitcoin Foundation’s 2013 Conference being held in Silicon Valley this weekend.
BitInstant, which has a full-time staff of 16 led by CEO Charlie Shrem, has emerged as a key player in the nascent Bitcoin market: The company already processes approximately 30 percent of the money going into and out of Bitcoin, and last month alone facilitated 30,000 transactions, the Winklevosses said in a phone call this week. The funding is meant to allow the company to further scale up its staff and product as it angles to become the go-to site for Bitcoin transfers.
The Winklevosses say they were attracted to invest in BitInstant in large part because of its leadership. CEO Shrem is the vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, and CIO Alex Waters previously worked with the core developers on the original Satoshi Bitcoin client. “Charlie has been in the space for a very long time, and he has an impeccable reputation among Bitcoiners. He knows everyone in the space and everyone in the space knows him,” Cameron Winklevoss said. “One of the most exciting things about people who are into Bitcoin it’s that they’re a really passionate community, and Charlie is a passionate entrepreneur. He would be in that category of someone who lives, breathes, and sleeps Bitcoin.”
Speaking of that community, the world of Bitcoiners does indeed have an interesting edge to it: There’s an underground vibe that seems like it would contrast with the more traditional East Coast prep style of the Winklevosses. In our phone call, Cameron and Tyler said that they’re intrigued by the current feel of the Bitcoin space — and its potential for becoming a bit more structured in the coming years.
“We’re definitely pretty fascinated by it. The classic issue with Bitcoin is that it’s very early days,” Tyler said. “The entrepreneurs in the space are very impressive, but it takes really two areas of expertise: One is technology, and the second is understanding money services and regulation and all those things that are important for sustainability. Most entrepreneurs and companies we see in the space have the tech down, and they’re super strong there, but in terms of being buttoned up and looking like an average bank, it’s hard to couple both of them together. We think that BitInstant and Charlie do a fantastic job of doing both.”
This marks the third big-name funding news for Bitcoin startups in just a few days. Earlier this week Adam Draper announced that half of the companies in his next Boost.vc accelerator program will be focused on bitcoin, and yesterday Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led a $2 million investment in Bitcoin processing startup BitPay. It will be interesting to see how the Bitcoin space in general evolves as even more buttoned-up types and traditional money managers get involved.
Read More →BonitaSoft Raises $13M Series C For Its Open Source Business Process Management Solution
BonitaSoft, a provider of an open source business process management (BPM) solution, has raised a $13 million Series C round led by the FSN PME Fund, a French government initiative to invest in technology companies to help them scale globally. Also joining the round are previous investors Ventech, Auriga Partners, and Serena Capital. The new funding round brings the total raised by the company to just over $28 million since being founded in 2009, and follows an $11m Series B in late 2011.
BonitaSoft is headquartered in Grenoble, France — hence the French government’s backing — although it also has a U.S. office in San Francisco where I’m told CEO Miguel Valdes Faura spends half his time, as well an another office in Paris. It operates in the BPM space, competing with the likes of Pegasystems, Appian, LongJump, and a number of other open source players.
Companies use BPM software to automate their processes, particularly where these operate at the intersection of machines and people. For example, insurance companies might employ a BPM suite to design software to automate the claims process when a customer is involved in a car accident. Or to streamline and make accountable any business process where without systems in place things would otherwise fall through the cracks, especially at scale.
To that end, BonitaSoft’s solution includes a design studio to model business processes, a BPM engine that adapts to various information systems architectures, and an end-user interface for managing and interacting with processes. It also has support for a range of internal and external systems via a library of hundreds of ‘Connectors’ and a strong developer community (due to its open source nature) who contribute connectors, business processes and other extensions.
BonitaSoft says that it serves more than 600 companies and governments worldwide, claiming customers such as Accenture, DirectTV, Old Dominion University, Trane, Teach For America and Michelin. Its software has seen more than 2 million downloads, while the open source community is said to be 60,000 member-strong.
Like other open source business models, BonitaSoft makes money by charging for additional add-ons and support. It plans to use the new capital to “fuel its global expansion plans in the USA, Europe, and Latin America”, specifically increasing its marketshare of mid and large-sized businesses who currently rely on proprietary and aging BPM solutions. It also plans to plough some of that cash into developing next-generation BPM technologies.
Read More →Talking Crowdfunding with hyperfund’s David Schmelke
Hyperfund is an equity crowdfunding platform that’s slated to open up to the public later this year. Unlike some of its competitors that are looking to enter the crowdfund investing space, hyperfund will focus on unaccredited investors. The platform is getting ready to open to the crowd, and we emailed a few questions over to David Schmelke, VP of business development at hyperfund, to find out a little more about the platform and what its goals are for the future. Here’s what he had to say about his platform and the crowdfunding space in general.
Anton Root, Crowdsourcing.org: How did you come up with the idea for hyperfund?
David Schmelke, VP of Business Development: The original idea occurred to me while attempting to raise capital from the Angel Investor and Venture Capital community back in 2006. I knew there had to be a better way and was frustrated by the limitations around working exclusively with VC’s and Accredited Angels. Since then, I have been researching the micro-finance and peer-to-peer lending markets looking for an opportunity to help startup businesses raise capital and, just as importantly, empower everyone, not just the accredited, with the ability to get in on the ground floor of the next great business. I truly feel passionate about making startup equity investing available to everyone, providing the upside opportunity while spreading the risk across a larger group of people. The definition of the term hyperfund is “Equity Crowdfunding”. I thought it was the perfect name for the business.
When are you looking to open to the public?We expect to be ready to launch in 4th quarter of this year. We are being very deliberate in our development of the platform and are of course waiting patiently for the SEC to release the guidelines around equity crowdfunding. In the meantime, anyone can sign up on hyperfund.com for up to date news on our progress.
What gap in the market are you looking to fill?
Unlike many of our competitors, we will equally address the needs of both funders and fundraisers. We are unwavering in our commitment to the security and prosperity of all our members, providing them the tools needed to create strong investment partnerships.
What will separate you from other companies offering similar services?
Our proprietary system is what will differentiate us in that it will allow members to… (secret sauce). Hyperfund makes the inefficient startup equity fundraising market efficient by providing an online destination where anyone can easily connect with, exchange information with and invest into startup businesses. Small businesses can, in turn, reach several thousand potential investors in a cost effective and time efficient manner.
Are you looking at specific kinds of businesses to fund?
While our platform will not be focused on any single niche, our members will benefit from the hyper-localization and niche-friendly design of the platform. Hyperfund functionality allows funder members to prioritize a range of criteria, then provides a portal tailored to each individual member’s preferences. Whether their interests lie in supporting local businesses, startups in the fashion industry, or are more interested in management experience, hyperfund is custom-made for them. We will also support both interstate and intrastate focused campaigns.
Will you be open to both accredited and unaccredited investors? Are you looking at operating in the U.S., or overseas, too?
Though we welcome accredited investors and active angel investors to the hyperfund platform we are focused on the non-accredited investor segment. For the foreseeable future, we will be operating strictly domestically in the United States.
How do you plan to monetize your services?
We plan on offering our services in a fixed-menu pricing model. Prices vary by member segment and service level but fees are very reasonable and we will not be taking a percentage of the funds raised, so more money goes directly to the fundraiser. Basic membership for funder members is free of charge.
What are some challenges you foresee for equity crowdfunding?
The single greatest challenge is the regulatory environment. If the rules are too onerous, such as requiring audited financials, it would be cost and time prohibitive and the equity crowdfunding model simply won’t work.
What are some things you’d like to see the SEC address as it’s finalizing rules around equity crowdfunding?
I would submit to the SEC that while finding middle ground from the many recommendations may be tempting, it will not work in the end. I would ask that they put a higher emphasis on the more reasonable recommendations and error on the side of job creation. I believe the nature of the platform will reduce fraud and overly burdensome regulations will simply kill the creation of jobs.
What are some of your short- and long-term plans?
All our focus is on the development of the hyperfund platform and positioning hyperfund for a Series A round of financing.
We’d like to thank David Schmelke, VP of business development at hyperfund, for talking to us.
Tags: crowd-funding, crowdfunding, david-schmelke, equity-crowdfunding, hyperfund
Read More →Massolution at SIG Summit This Week
Editor’s Note: We continue our look at the leading industry research and advisory work that our sister organization massolution is engaged in. For more information on massolution and its industry research, go to crowdsourcing.org/research; for services, visit massolution.com
We like to keep tabs on what our sister research and advisory arm, massolution, is up to and this week CEO and Founder Carl Esposti is in Florida for the Sourcing Interests Group Global Sourcing Summit.
This Wednesday, the second day of the three-day summit, Carl will be representing Crowdsourcing.org and massolution for a session presented with PASS Group entitled “Testing Applications for the Real World: Can the Crowd Deliver ‘Better, Faster, Cheaper’ Testing for a Software-Driven World?”
Related:- Crowdtesting Applications for the Real World- What is Crowdsourced Testing?- How Crowdsourced Software Testing Works?- PASS Looks to Expand Crowdtesting Success into the U.S.
If it sounds like a familiar topic, that’s because we’ve been covering crowdtesting with a high level of interest for several months now. Massolution and passbrains recently teamed up to produce a related white paper and host a webinar on this rapidly emerging tool for software quality assurance (click here for a link to download the whole Webinar).
So if you’re in the area, plan to attend the Global Sourcing Summit in Amelia Island, Florida May 14 – 16, where passbrains will also be leading the session on crowdtesting.
About massolution:
Massolution is a unique research and advisory firm specializing in the crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industries. Massolution works with governments, institutions and enterprises in the design and implementation of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding business models that drive improved business performance, product and service innovation, enhanced levels of customer engagement and in the formation of new sources of capital.
Massolution also operates the industry website Crowdsourcing.org.
You can reach a representative at massolution by emailing contact-at-crowdsourcing.org.
Tags: crowdsourcing, crowdtesting, massolution, passbrains, sig, white-paper
Read More →Highland Capital, Andreessen Horowitz & Others Put $1.8M Into Aviate, An Intelligent Homescreen For Android
Facebook is not the only company to invest in development of products that take better advantage of the Android homescreen. South Korean messaging app KakaoTalk also recently announced its intentions to release a rival Android launcher. And now, Highland Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and others have invested $1.8 million into Aviate, an ex-Googler backed intelligent homescreen for Android devices.
The round also included participation from Freestyle Capital, Draper Associates, and other angels, most notably Dan Rose, Facebook VP of Business Development and Monetization, and Keval Desai. The company actually closed on the funding in December, but is only announcing now. The funds will be used to grow the team quickly, and further develop the product.
The company behind Aviate, Palo Alto-based ThumbsUp Labs, was founded in November 2011 by a team with backgrounds in computer science, search and OS development. Co-founder Mark Daiss majored in Cognitive Science at the University of California, and previously founded Pupil, an image based Q&A app, where he also focused on the problem of bringing relevant information to smartphone users when it was most useful.
Meanwhile, Stanford grad Will Choi worked for Google on its front-end search team; and Paul Montoy-Wilson, also a Stanford grad, worked as a Product Manager for the Android Marketplace (now Google Play), and had previously co-founded customer feedback app HaveASec.
Each founder had his own take on how to make mobile phones more effective – Daiss having seen the app discovery and engagement challenges firsthand; Montoy-Wilson with insight into the Android ecosystem itself; and Choi coming at the problem from the search perspective – he wanted to rebuild mobile search from the ground up.
What Aviate Does
With the Aviate, the goal is to help mobile users de-clutter their Android homescreens, and instead view relevant information adapted to their surroundings, rather than a grid of apps. Where Facebook Home has taken over the Android environment as something of an “apperating system,” to use the term coined by Wired (referring to something in between an app and operating system), the team at Aviate believes there’s more that can be done with such technology, beyond simply optimizing your social networking experiences.
Users today have a number of mobile applications on their devices which they access regularly, and that serve a wide variety of functions. It may not make much sense to give over complete control to just one, such as is the case with Facebook Home. (Early adopters of Facebook Home seem to agree, ranking and reviewing the new app poorly.)
Other means to view app information comes in the form of push notifications and homescreen widgets – neither of which tend to be personalized or contextually aware, outside of location-aware weather widgets, perhaps. In addition, app notifications these days are borderline spam, as developers feel increased pressure to get their app’s users to return and re-engage.
How It Will Work
Aviate wants to be different by working with your favorite applications to pull in information and surface it when you need it. (The app is not yet available for testing, so we can only speak of the company’s intentions here, rather than the real-world results.)
What we do know – and the team is being cagey so far – is that the app will be downloadable from Google Play, and after installation, it will integrate deeply with the phone to upgrade the overall experience. Like Facebook Home, it’s more than an Android launcher. Aviate will organize all your applications for you, and then based on context (time, location, etc.), it will begin to adapt to you individually as it learns what apps you need, when and where.
For example, Aviate will know that when you’re at work, you may need one subset of apps, but when you’re at the gym, you might use another. It also learns what information you need at your fingertips, and surfaces that more proactively, and in a more personalized manner over time. Details on that aspect are still sparse.
Frankly, it sounds a lot like the Google Now concept, but applied to the broader world of mobile applications. Already, it seems like something Google would want to snap up for itself, but it remains to be seen how well it all really works. The company is in the process of filing several patents around the technology now, however, and if granted, those could make the company more valuable in time.
Though obviously Android is where such innovation can take place, Aviate says it has plans for an iOS version in the future.
The app will launch into private beta in the next couple of months. Users can join the waiting list here.
Read More →Social Network Bebo Has Filed A Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Petition
Looks like Bebo, once an early star in social networking, is progressing to the next step in the long and messy struggle between majority shareholder Criterion Capital Partners and minority shareholders that include co-founder Michael Birch, Hecker Consultancy and SV Angel: Bebo.com, Inc. has filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the Central District of California. First spotted by the blog Chapter 11 Cases, this appears to be the latest development in a case that was first filed in February of this year, in which some of the smaller shareholders requested for the courts to appoint a receiver to take control of the company after they judged that it had been mis-managed by Criterion.
This appears to be what happened. According to the Chapter 11 filing (embedded below), the receiver that got appointed in the Bebo case, after the February motion, was Michael Ong, who is listed as an investing partner at Burke Capital Corporation. Burke lists as its specialties “Capital Sourcing, Crisis Management, Growth & Value Accretion, Exits & Harvest.” We have also reached out to Ong for more detail on what comes next — whether it will be a sale of whole or part of the assets with an attempt to restructure the remaining business.
Chapter 11 Cases lists the largest unsecured creditors in the case as the “IRS ($380,000); Criterion Capital ($314,000 – disputed); AOL Advertising ($120,900 – subject to setoff, according to Bebo); Quality Technology Services ($120,000) and e-DBA Limited ($43,571).”
The February suit, as we reported at the time, might lead to the removal of Adam Levin as Bebo’s CEO. And according to his LinkedIn profile, the appears to be what happened, with his role as CEO at the company ending in February 2013 (although, confusingly, under his name on his profile card, Levin still lists “chief executive officer at Bebo”). Levin is also MD of Criterion Capital Partners, a position he retains.
We have reached out to Levin, as well as two of the shareholders, Michael Birch (also one of the co-founders) and Richie Hecker of Hecker Consultancy, for more detail.
Once a fast-growing social network that was particularly popular in the UK and Ireland — in the UK in 2008 (when Facebook was much smaller) it claimed to have 40 million users who spent an average of 40 minutes each on the site. Bebo was bought by (TechCrunch owner) AOL for $850 million in 2008 but then sold to Criterion for $10 million only two years later.
Prior to the February 2013 motion, in April 2012, minority shareholders had filed a $5 million suit against Criterion for “destroying” the site, in their words. Competition from much bigger and stronger players like Facebook may have been the biggest pressure on Bebo — which turned to various avenues like original video content to drum up more usage (perhaps ahead of its time, considering the move once more to online original video content) but the shareholders allege that the site’s owners didn’t help that situation.
After apparently defaulting on a lease for its San Francisco offices, Levin then allegedly moved the company down to Los Angeles without consulting the board — LA is where Bebo is now listed as being headquartered on current Chapter 11 filing. The lawsuit also claimed Levin paid himself $14,000 a month as CEO even though he wasn’t working full-time at the company and was focused on other work for Criterion. Moreover, the company didn’t hold any board meetings for at least 20 months and didn’t turn over financial information about the performance of the company over to the board.
The February 2013 motion added more kindling to that fire, claiming that Levin didn’t pursue leads for the sale of Bebo to interested parties like Tagged and AdKnowledge, with the latter offering to pay $15 million plus a $15 million earnout.
On the consumer front, Bebo has also been somewhat quiet: the site’s official Twitter account hasn’t been updated since November 2012, and its @TeamBebo support account has not tweeted since 2011. It’s suffered a few bouts of downtime, too, the most recent being earlier this week.
Read More →Salesforce Acquires Evernote-Like Web Clipping Service Clipboard For Double-Digit Millions, Service Shut Down In June
Clipboard, the web clipping service which operated as something of a cross between Evernote and Pinterest, has been acquired by Salesforce. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we’re hearing that it was mostly cash, and that the final figure was in the “double digit millions.” The startup had previously raised $2.5 million from a “who’s who” of high-profile investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, CrunchFund, SV Angel, Betaworks, DFJ, First Round and others.
Founded in 2011 by Gary Flake, Clipboard’s vision was to help users snip and save web content using simple online tools. That content could then be organized into “boards,” where those items could be annotated and shared, or collaborated on with others. Given the similarities to existing services like Pinterest and Evernote, both with huge traction themselves, Clipboard had yet to find a substantially sized audience for its service.
Prior to the acquisition, the company had grown to around 100,000 users, and was seeing growth rates of 40 percent month-over-month. In January, it reported having reached 1.7 million+ clips since it had opened its private beta, back in October 2011.
The company had some interest in the education space, however. At the beginning of the year, it received a strategic investment from ed-tech company Scientia. But following the Salesforce buyout, the product itself will be shut down and discontinued on June 30th, 2013, so those earlier plans to further develop the product for use in the education space will be discontinued as well.
Today, Clipboard is offering users an exportable zip file of their clips, and has alerted its customers via email.
Though pictured in the blog post announcing the acquisition are seven team members, two had left on their own prior to the Salesforce deal. Most of the remaining members will continue on to Salesforce, where the plan is to integrate the technology into that company’s existing line up of productivity tools.
The deal was not just an acqui-hire situation, as Salesforce was interested in the team, product, and related IP. That being said, Salesforce has offered incentives to Clipboard’s team, including Clipboard CEO Flake, to remain on with the company after the deal closes. The staff, previously based in Bellevue, will relocate to Salesforce’s Seattle offices going forward.
We have confirmed that Clipboard’s Product Management lead, Shalendra Chhabra, will not be one of those joining Salesforce, though. Now with two successful startups (the other being Swype) behind him, he says he ready to do something new, and already has a company in stealth mode which will be his focus now.
The final blog post from Flake, simply titled “Farewell,” is below, and includes a full investor lineup:
Read More →As you may have already read on our landing page or FAQ, Clipboard is a different company today than it was yesterday. Those two links are your primary resources for learning the “how” and “why” behind the transition that we are making, and they should answer most of your questions about how these changes impact you.
Here, in this blog post, I simply want to thank everyone that made Clipboard possible. As a founder, I can’t imagine a better team, in or out of a startup. Thank you Shalendra Chhabra, Steve Courtney, Mark Dawson, Brandon Hall, Tommy Montgomery, Greg Pascale, and Ken Perkins, not just for being along for the ride, but for making both the highs and the lows better in every way.
Our company advisors helped this first-time CEO avoid numerous pitfalls. Matt Jubelirer, Fritz Lanman, Tom Rubin, David Vaskevitch and Hank Vigil, thank you for your invaluable guidance and advice
Our murderers’ row of investors bet on us, opened numerous doors, and cheered us on the whole time. Thank you to Acequia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Atlas Accelerator, Betaworks, Blake Krikorian, Code Holding, Crunch Fund, DFJ, First Round Capital, Founders Co-op, Index Ventures, Kevin Johnson, Scientia LTD, SV Angel, Ted Meisel, Tentpole Ventures, Vast Ventures and Vivi Nevo.
We were unreasonably fortunate in being selected by Apple, Google, and Microsoft at different times for different marketing campaigns. Thank you to those companies for making us look better if just by association.
Thank you also to the bloggers and press that covered us from launch to exit.
And finally, thank you, most of all, to our users. Your suggestions, content and overall engagement were the oxygen to our flame. You inspired us and we hope that in some small way we made your online life a little better, a littler more productive and a little more fun.
Peace out.
Enterprise Crowdsourcing: Changing the Way Work Gets Done (Webinar)
Editor’s Note: We continue our look at the leading industry research and advisory work that our sister organization massolution is engaged in. The following is a replay of a webinar on Enterprise Crowdsourcing that comes to us from Dori Albert, Enterprise Crowdsourcing Practice Manager at Lionbridge, a leading global crowdsourcing firm. Albert and massolution / Crowdsourcing.org’s Carl Esposti recently presented the in-depth webinar, titled “Enterprise Crowdsourcing: Changing the Way Work Gets Done.”
(To learn more about the possibilities of Enterprise Crowdsourcing, also watch a replay of our recent live video chat with Albert. For more information on massolution and its industry research, go to crowdsourcing.org/research; for services, visit massolution.com)
Related:- Enterprise Crowdsourcing: In-Depth with Lionbridge- The Crowd in the Cloud: Exploring the Future of Outsourcing (White paper)- Big Data Processing with Enterprise Crowdsourcing (Solution Brief)- Enterprise Crowdsourcing in Action (Request a demo)- One-on-one With an Enterprise Crowsourcing Expert
Please join Lionbridge as they present Changing the Way Work Gets Done: The Next Generation of Outsourcing – Enterprise Crowdsourcing at the 2013 SIG Global Sourcing Summit, May 14-16, 2013. More details about the summit can be found at: http://www.sig.org/summits.php
About massolution:
Massolution is a unique research and advisory firm specializing in the crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industries. Massolution works with governments, institutions and enterprises in the design and implementation of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding business models that drive improved business performance, product and service innovation, enhanced levels of customer engagement and in the formation of new sources of capital.
Massolution also operates the industry website Crowdsourcing.org.
You can reach a representative at massolution by emailing contact-at-crowdsourcing.org.
Tags: carl-esposti, crowdsourcing, enterprise, lionbridge, sig, webinar
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