evly.com CEO, Serial South African Internet entrepreneur, Occasional Angel Investor, Crowdsourcing Fan

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Do companies really want constructive engagement with their customers?

November 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Have you seen what Starbucks is doing with their customers? They’re asking their customers to suggest ways to improve their products, and also to suggest ways of improving the experience when the customers purchase the products.

evly has created an app for owners of Facebook fan pages, that not only lets the Facebook fans suggest ways [...]

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Tags: social media · what i'm thinking

Build. Gather. Solve. Anything.

September 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD (see below). For the last 2 years, we have worked NON STOP to build some new Internet based software which we think has the potential to change the world. For the first year we strategised, and the following year we recruited a team and started developing.
We still have a way to [...]

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Tags: 2.0 · blogging · entrepreneurs · evly · investment · random · springleap · start up

Fashion Evolution raises R4M to expand springleap.com crowdsourcing concept

October 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

7th October 2009
For immediate release
Cape Town based Internet Startup, Fashion Evolution Holdings, has
raised a further R4M ($0.5M) in its second round of funding, with the
aim of commercialising its social network, crowdsourcing, & eCommerce
web based software platform, to be used to launch further internal
brands, as well as being used for powering 3rd party websites.
Fashion Evolution’s first [...]

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Tags: investment · springleap

How big is the Threadless Community?

January 15th, 2009 · 11 Comments


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Tags: crowdsourcing

Will springleap become bigger than Threadless?

January 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Jeff Howe’s book on crowdsourcing is keeping me spellbound. Just like Threadless and Design by Humans, springleap has become an amazing community of creative people passionate about design. But Jeff’s crowdsourcing book, has introduced me to all the other amazing crowdsourcing projects that are taking place.
Wikipedia is one of my favourite crowdsourcing websites. It defines [...]

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Tags: crowdsourcing