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CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald (Part 4)
Sramana: You mentioned that eBay is one of your customers. What do you do for eBay? Lukas Biewald: We do a lot of different things for them. The most mature application for them is classifying products. They get a lot of products in from their users, and they want to make sure they are going
CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald (Part 3)
Sramana: What is your business model? Lukas Biewald: Our business model is pretty simple. We quote customers the price for completed tasks, and upon completing those tasks recieve payment regardless of the cost we incur competing those tasks. We assume the price risk. Let’s suppose a company has a large directory of other businesses and
CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald (Part 2)
Sramana: When you first recognized the concept of croudsourcing was working, what stood out at you the most? What about it make you recognize its overall potential? Lukas Biewald: When you get thousands of people looking at your site or your data, you will get a lot of interesting ideas. They will point out confusing
Crowdsourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Lukas Biewald is the founder and executive chairman of CrowdFlower, the world’s largest enterprise crowdsourcing platform. Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas was a senior scientist and manager within the ranking and management team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft.
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 8)
Sramana Mitra: Flipping topics again, I want to run by a couple of trends that I am starting to see, and I would love to have your comments on those. One of them is in the area of crowdsourcing, which is a term that is relevant to different parts of a business. It doesn’t just
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Social CRM and Crowd Sourcing
There are many trends hitting large enterprises at the moment right in their bellies. Within the broad sphere of cloud computing, with the adoption of the social Web, one of these trends is crowd sourcing. The business function that is most acutely impacted by this trend is CRM. All the way from marketing to sales
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jay Leader CIO, Of iRobot (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: And whom do you expect would be solving that problem? Or is solving that problem or is trying to improve that situation? Is it the product life cycle management (PLM) vendors? Jay Leader: In part. There are a whole bunch of them. I am sure you trip across lots of them – people
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jay Leader CIO, Of iRobot (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Product life cycle management is an area we haven’t heard so much about in our cloud computing series. We haven’t really heard much from that field. I worked a lot in that area in the early part of the past decade because I was doing a turnaround of a company that did PLM
