Month: March 2019

Primary industry is starting to sit up and take notice of the value delivered by crowdsourcing to validate concepts at low risk, solve complex challenges, find new innovative suppliers and automate work. Industrial leaders are emerging with sustainable new business models that include crowdsourcing and they are able to clearly demonstrate the value that it … Read more

The gala dinner ceremony to announce the 12 category winners of this year’s inaugural annual BOLD Awards will be held on the campus of H-FARM. It is an innovation platform which supports and accelerates the creation of new startup businesses, as well as the digital transformation of more established Italian companies and the education of … Read more

While some industries have already realized the potential of crowdsourcing, others have not yet been impacted. Kickstarter innovated the world of fundraising, allowing entrepreneurs to connect with capital from all around the world. Websites like Fiverr use crowdsourcing for design and marketing solutions. Wikipedia employed the power of the crowd to create a digital encyclopedia. … Read more

Over the past decade, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has seen striking developments. There are now dozens of domains in which AI programs are performing at least as well as (if not better than) humans. Crowdsourcing on the other end has matured and reached a certain saturation; and while companies and organizations do see … Read more

Many successful businesses reach a stage where transformational expansion to take it to the next level, whether that might be developing the next version of a product or setting up a Sales and Marketing team, can’t be funded fast enough through sales income. Equity crowdfunding, through which backers invest in businesses for a share of the equity, has opened a door for a new generation of entrepreneurs.

It’s easy to forget that the Internet was once all open. Rather, the Internet has been in a continuous cycle of highly-structured portals and free-flowing information. The initial platforms, like BBS boards, gave way to walled gardens like America OnLine. AOL’s drop in popularity lead to an open field again, and the last decade brought … Read more

The pace of change, the disruption of business and social conventions enabled by new technology, has accelerated beyond the point where traditional educators can agree and implement relevant courses of study