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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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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Hackathons can take many forms, but usually involve an intensive series of brainstorming, collaboration, and evaluation sessions with the aim of answering or overcoming a specific challenge. Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” Its origins?

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Hackathons can take many forms, but usually involve an intensive series of brainstorming, collaboration, and evaluation sessions with the aim of answering or overcoming a specific challenge. Programmers and software professionals squeezing time in against packed evenings and weekends to accelerate productivity.” Its origins?

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Deliver Big Impact on a Small Budget

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, with just a few thousand dollars, Ben Munoz and I started Ben's Friends , a network of online support sites for people with rare diseases. Back in 2008, Ben and I knew three things. Software development" and "hardware" are bad words. Is Collaboration the New Greenwashing?

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

The internet is great for spreading information and rallying crowds, but you can’t mobilize people to collaborate and create something of lasting value simply by connecting them via the web. When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In 2008, GE corporate decided to invest $1 billion in the $5.6 How do we become much more open and collaborative with the customer base?

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New York City's Culture Will Shape the Next Tech Sector

Harvard Business Review

Those accidental (and non-accidental) interactions are what spur creativity — working and collaborating with different people is what inspires new ideas and new thinking — it''s what drives us at Infor, and more reason why New York and its open community was the right fit for us.

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