Crowdsourcing Questions

I have a site that works like Elance and Odesk in a way.and I am looking for a strategy or at least an Idea of how I can go about attracting freelancers to join my site. Any help will be highly...

Community Crowdsourcing

asked Nov 25 '12 at 10:33

I Scotts
152 points

I am using a crowd-sourced site to design my logo (examples of such sites: 99 Designs and Crowdspring ). The way these sites work is you put up a prize (say, $200) and then several different...

Legal Logo Crowdsourcing

asked Nov 10 '12 at 03:45

Patrick Kenny
277 points

During its mission to raise popularity in the midst of the dot-com boom in '98, TravelZoo gave a few free shares to each person who signed up for their mailing list. Hypothetically, let's say I'm...

Marketing Incentives Incorporation Equity Crowdsourcing

asked Sep 2 '12 at 14:24

Maxim Zaslavsky
101 points

Now that the JOBS Act has been passed and signed when can I start raising capital through CrowdSource Funding?

Venture Capital Social Network Seed Funding Crowdsourcing Crowdfunding

asked May 9 '12 at 09:22

User17876
26 points

I was looking at kickstarter to get some funding for a possible business venture. Kickstarter funding would cover entity filing fees and other costs or licenses and materials. I have seen some...

Funding Equity Crowdsourcing

asked Mar 15 '12 at 12:35

Cqm
11 points

I've been running a crowd sourced quiz site for a while: http://www.quizmash.com While I'm getting plenty of quizzes taken through google search traffic, my conversion rate to entering a question...

Crowdsourcing Conversion

asked Aug 4 '11 at 16:32

Ricick
106 points

I'm at a fairly established startup, and we need our logo and look/feel overhauled. I'm thinking about using a crowdsourced design site, along the lines of 99designs. Lots of similar sites now...

Marketing Website Branding Web Design Crowdsourcing

asked Jun 7 '11 at 03:49

Sarah
21 points

I would like to use 99designs to design the logo for a new site I'm working on that is still in stealth mode. Are there any dangers in doing this? Specifically, I am worried about: Exposing too...

Crowdsourcing

asked May 12 '11 at 02:02

Bert H
6 points

I came across this site: http://www.startupaddict.com/, looks like it's fairly new; there are only a half-dozen startups on the site and none are even close to achieving their goals. I know...

Crowdsourcing

asked May 6 '11 at 11:35

Nick
1,171 points

For the past year I've been working on a recipe-sharing startup called Fridge to Food based on the idea of crowd sourcing recipes. We went to public beta a few months ago and I've been doing rounds...

Community Beta Crowdsourcing

asked Dec 22 '10 at 04:13

Daniel Bingham
148 points

My wife and I run a referral site for professionals in the childbirth industry where past clients can post testimonials (reviews) of their experience working with the professional. We are trying to...

Crowdsourcing

asked Oct 12 '10 at 02:40

Pat James
138 points

I am looking for an online service where it utilizes crowd sourcing or humans for keyword suggestions. Meaning if I want to create a CPC ad for some product or service, I want to get ideas from...

Adwords Crowdsourcing

asked May 17 '10 at 08:28

Tony Henrich
85 points

And what is your opinion on bulk email marketing and would you ever use it for promoting/selling your business service?

Marketing Business Crowdsourcing

asked Jun 4 '10 at 19:48

Tatiana Andrushko
16 points

I still don't get the behavior or motivation behind people developing pieces for your game(software) for free... why would anybody do that?

Open Source Crowdsourcing

asked Apr 10 '10 at 22:05

Raed
101 points

For crowd sourcing basically there are two main contenders, crowdspring and 99designs. I know they are both good and we can't go wrong with either one, but I am sure we can find out which one is...

Design Crowdsourcing

asked Feb 21 '10 at 22:17

Jpartogi
1,342 points

So far I have come up with the following: Apple (through Apps Store) Microsoft (allowing anyone to develop working software on their platform), creating a virtual monopoly) There could be other...

Outsourcing Crowdsourcing

asked Feb 27 '10 at 19:37

David
1,567 points