http://www.cbsnews.com/video/quirky-the-mother-of-online-invention …a consumer products company that brought in $48 million in revenue last year… If a product makes it to the retail shelves, 10 percent of the revenue is shared with the inventor and every member of the website who helped along the way… The company currently has more than 100 products on sale, in …
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Jun 16
Crowdsourcing: Inventing the question to fit your answer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22847802# “Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.” Jake Zien is a 24-year-old designer from Milwaukee…His product, the Pivot Power, is a strip plug that bends. Mr Zien has made over $350,000 so far.
Sep 26
Boon and Bane of Crowdfunding
(Article taken from http://mypaper.sg/ on 19 Sep 2012) Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, IndieGogo and Quirky are letting designers connect with audiences who want to finance their dreams… But, for the creators of these projects, getting the money is sometimes the easy part. They then have to turn their dreams into reality, with crowd keeping an …