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4 Mistakes That Kill Crowdsourcing Efforts

Harvard Business

TopCoder stepped from strength to strength, raising $11M in 2010. Likewise, Quirky tried to manufacture the products its community conceived rather than find expert low cost producers. Firms launching new products today use Alibaba, an effective platform, to find low cost manufacturers with competitive bids.

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Million Dollar Takeaways and Goals

Chad Barr

We met in the mornings, discussed business, best practices, intellectual properties and ideas to improve our lives and businesses. Takeaways: Productize my business to complement the concept of the accelerant curve. Develop case studies that enable clients to relate to them. Productize my business.