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"The direct sponsor does all the leg work, doing the hard and tedious task of sorting wheat from chaff. Statistics I've seen suggest that something like 2 out of 3,000 deals that a funded sponsor looks at will be funded. I don't have numbers on fundless sponsors, but it has to be worse.  That's a lot of chaff.  A"

CrunchBase is used by millions of consumers, analysts, and investors every month to track what's happening in the fast-paced world of tech startups, and we're growing. The key to our continued success is building a robust and scalable system that can capture and reflect the complex relationships amongst participants in the industry. Right now, we have the unique opportunity to technically and experientially "reboot", taking all the lessons of running CrunchBase up to this point and build a brand new CrunchBase from the ground up. Sound exciting? It does to us.

"The World's Foremost Knowledge Network The World Economic Forum's Network of Global Agenda Councils is the world's foremost interdisciplinary knowledge network dedicated to promoting innovative thinking on critical global issues, regions and industries, and incubating projects, campaigns and events for the public good. The Network convenes the most relevant and knowledgeable thought leaders from academia, government, business and civil society to challenge conventional thinking, develop new insights and create innovative solutions for key global challenges. In a global environment marked by short-term orientation and siloed thinking, the Network fosters interdisciplinary and long-range thinking on the prevailing challenges on the global agenda."

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"One of the things I learned early in my work as a professional investor is that the world is literally awash in capital. There is so much money seeking return - from traditional mutual funds and university endowments, to family offices and family foundations, to Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and developing-world oligarchs with global investment appetites - that there simply aren't enough places for it all to flow. Further, because these pools of capital are so large, managers need to deploy capital in large increments simply to make it feasible to manage and track their portfolios."

Not the vision of the individual, but rather the shared vision of the community. A desire to learn, to make a difference, a desire to share ideas and do something worthwhile. We come together in these spaces because of the vision, to be inspired by others, as well as to offer inspiration ourselves. It's also about our field of vision being wider with more eyes: more people bringing a wider range of experience, a wider range of sources, creating more wisdom and meaning. The breadth and differences within community make it stronger. Vision inspires us.

So proud of our dev team! @strategyzer just switched from Alpha to Beta! Check it out #bmgen http://t.co/HYNgyMw3UX

Individuals engaged in mass collaboration in Wikipedia may join to work recurrently with the same partners. It may well be that a significant portion of Wikipedia content is produced this way. Therefore, it is important to study how such groups emerge. In this paper, we argue how such recurrence may involve identity work that creates a sense of 'we-ness.' We provide a case from Wikipedia, focusing on how individual Wikipedians came together to work on a collaborative Feature Article task. Furthermore, the same people came together in other content collaborations, and they identified themselves as a group. The findings suggest that identity work can bridge mass collaborations to the emergence of smaller-scale sustained groups. Our theoretical contribution brings together research streams on mass collaboration, group dynamics, and identity. This offers interesting pathways for further research.

Marketplaces 2.0 will thrive as a mega venture category