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Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding – what’s the difference?

Wazoku

Crowdsourcing first became popular among software developers: open sourced code was a way for companies to more quickly develop software. President Obama’s campaign in 2008 is a good example: his campaign raised over $50 million from over a million followers.

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Business Model Scalability: Internal vs External

The BMI Lab Blog

When I co-founded the online ebook platform PaperC back in 2008, I made an interesting discovery. As long as nobody invents a robot that can cut hair, a barbershop cannot be as scalable as a software company. How can a business model be scalable and unscalable at the same time? Automation in manufacturing (e.g.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”. Think again.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”. Think again.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey.