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4 Mistakes That Kill Crowdsourcing Efforts

Harvard Business

Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. One author of the Harvard Business School Case Study on Threadless observes that, based on numbers of applications, the odds of winning admission to Harvard are higher than the chance of winning a Threadless contest. Each winner receives just $2,500.