Comments on: Crowdsourcing: business model failure vs. management mistake

By: Use crowdsourcing for social and environmental sustainability | The Portland Bottom Line

Sat, 22 May 2010 12:58:52 +0000

[...] [...]

By: Use crowdsourcing for social and environmental sustainability — Sustainable Marketing Blog

Sat, 22 May 2010 12:30:17 +0000

[...] [...]

By: Tel

Tel — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:50:46 +0000

I notice that in order to Cambrian House, you have to agree to about 10000 words of terms and conditions written in legal mumbo-jumbo. I understand that everyone needs to protect themselves, but I’m not about to sign up to something I don’t understand (yes I need to protect myself too) and I certainly don’t have the time or interest to work my way through that lot.

I expect a lot of intelligent but casual browsers would give up at about the same place I did.

By: Denis Hancock

Denis Hancock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:03:13 +0000

Thanks for the insightful comments – we definitely look forward to seeing how the model evolves!

And Sarah, we can do a quid pro quo – we’ll buy Howe’s new book on Crowdsourcing as long as you buy Don’s forthcoming book Grown Up Digital*!

* This assumes you’ve already bought Wikinomics. If not, the deal is off .

By: Sarah Blue

Sarah Blue — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:50:21 +0000

Hi there,
I work at Cambrian House. To clarify, our founder, Michael J. Sikorsky, said that our original model failed – not crowdsourcing. We still love crowdsourcing and aren’t all that surprised that we didn’t achieve perfection on our first try. Cambrian House is happily evolving and passing our learnings on so others can benefit.

Lesson learned: you can’t crowdsource ideas and expect them to turn into businesses without a wildly passionate founding team.

Having learned this, we helped build a new community for startups and capital. It goes above just crowdsourcing ideas by awarding 50,000USD to the best founding team.

Cambrian House’s doors are still open. We have not sold off all of our assets and we’re as busy as ever.

Thanks,
Sarah Blue
ps Don’t forget to buy Jeff Howe’s new book on Crowdsourcing!

By: Sarah Blue

Sarah Blue — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:43:10 +0000

Hi there,
I work at Cambrian House. Thanks for the article. These are all points we agree with, as seen in our video blog, http://tinyurl.com/67o9jx (links to a youtube video).

Our founder said “the original business model failed” not Cambrian House. The doors are wide open here and we’re as busy as ever. VenCorps did not acquire all of our assets, it is built on our crowdsourcing platform.

Having been in the crowdsourcing space for over two years now, we’ve learned plenty and we’re happy to share what works and what doesn’t with anyone interested. We’re bullish about crowdsourcing, we’re slightly less keen on false TechCrunch articles though

Don’t forget to buy Jeff Howe’s new book on Crowdsourcing,
Sarah Blue
Cambrian House

By: Sean Wise

Sean Wise — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:37:57 +0000

Dennis,

Greate comments and great insight. For you, or any of your readers, that want to learn more about VenCorps and how we are applyinig the wikinomic model to venture capital, we’d be happy to have you join our alpha program. Just email: Dustin@VenCorps.com and he will site you (and any of your readers) up with logins.

All the best,

Sean