J. Kent Pepper
New York, NY (USA)
Role(s):
BigCarrot
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Location:
New York
Industry:
Internet
Year Founded:
2007
Number Employees:
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Description:
BigCarrot employs crowdsourcing to facilitate and encourage people to create and fund inducement prizes. Visitors to the website can establish a prize, contribute to a previously established prize or search for active prizes one might be interested in pursuing.
Everyone has a cause. Whether it’s to solve global warming by providing incentive for bio-diesel cars or the desire for a chip bag that keeps chips fresh after it’s been opened, BigCarrot provides the means for people to proactively advocate for their development. As the internet has demonstrated time and time again, even the smallest niche, when aggregated through the global population has a sizable population.
At the same time, companies with limited R&D budgets can pool their resources to find a mutually beneficial solution