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Cambrian House: Failure or evolution?

Started by mathewi · 3 months ago

Erick Schonfeld put up a post at TechCrunch last night about Cambrian House — the Calgary-based crowdsourcing software company — and how it was heading for the dead pool after failing to raise financing and being forced into a “fire sale” of its intell ... Continue reading »

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  • Brenden

    3 months ago

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  • Aidan Henry

    3 months ago

    So basically Michael is saying that the model failed rather than the execution? That was the main thing I wanted to find out...

    Cheers,
    Aidan
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  • mathewi

    3 months ago

    I think he's actually saying a bit of both, in a way. That coming up
    with ideas wasn't a problem, but crowdsourcing people to follow
    through on them was a lot harder to do -- whether that's a failure of
    the model or the execution of the model is open to interpretation, I
    suppose.
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  • Aidan Henry

    3 months ago

    Yeah, I agree. It's hard to point a finger at one party. If it was the crowd's fault, the model is broken. If it was the company's fault, then poor execution can be blamed.

    I can't imagine it being easy to maintain the focus of a crowd with such a short attention span though...

    -Aidan
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