In Academic Crowdsourcing Often driven by their commitment and enthusiasm, founders are  typically willing to place in an exceedingly night's work to prepare and launch their new existence.

Legal problems are processed, funding is accessible and also the business thought has been figured out or the service has been developed. Academic Crowdsourcing is often once most founders understand that the time required has been greatly underestimated and reaches the bounds of their resources.

Yet a significant a part of the work still lies ahead: marketing. The logo hasn't been designed, the products / services haven't been tested by "users" yet, a lot of competitor data hasn't been researched, address data of potential customers for distribution campaigns hasn't been gathered, the website and possible online shops haven't been designed and the 2000 product/service descriptions for the catalog and/or online shop haven't been written, let alone translated into the four languages and search engine optimized, etc.

These projects have to be completed as soon as possible. However financial resources are tight and manpower is scarce.

The solution could be "Academic Crowdsourcing".

With the help of thousands of Internet users

Academic Crowdsourcing is a word combination that comes from crowd and outsourcing. Tasks and projects are divided among the manpower and intelligence of a crowd of Internet users (outsourcing). The most well known example is "Wikipedia" the Internet encyclopedia in which Internet users make their knowledge and contributions available free of charge.

In paid Crowdsourcing Internet users, so-called Clickworkers, are paid for their services.

Creative tasks ar usually offered within the variety of tenders during which solely the winner receives payment. Tasks like the creation of short texts, translations, tagging, categorization and net analysis ar divided into small jobs. each Clickworker WHO has completed the task properly can receive a preset fee.