Techcrunch40: Session 4 – Crowd Sourcing

TechCrunch40 next up is Crowd Sourcing startups. It’s the last of the day today!

Cake Financial

• how many of us feel alone when we track our finances or stocks
• what if the person next to you crushes the market – she would be your best friend
• cake allows you to share your real-time portfolio without sharing any personal data
• they want your real logins for all of the financial firms – instant death – who would trust a startup with this info?
• you can chart yourself against other people you know
• what kind of insurance do they have to protect me when someone hacks?
• even if i go for this, how can i be assured my friends will?
• they have security like a bank – and they guarantee any loss that is their fault – but yet would they cover say a $1m loss?

DocStoc

• cute start to the presentation by using plants in the audience
• you’d be crazy not to use docstoc
• where do they get the documents?
• working on export to box.net
• shows a blog preview using Go2Web20
• they want to enable you access to any document you want or need and have high quality professional resources that you need

CrowdSpirit

• You upload a problem and get the crowd to help solve it
• its from france
• after the problem is solved, you can create fans and partners – fans want to buy, partners want to sell