EntICE places its musicians alongside youth orchestras to play recently commissioned works; DigitICE, the free streaming library, continues to grow, and a new project, ICECommons, is creating a crowd-sourced online repository of works from emerging composers, some of which the ensemble has performed.
Borrowing from the Uber model, this delivery network takes advantage of GPS-enabled smartphones to mobilize its group of drivers, creating a crowd-based delivery network.
And unlike Wikia Search, the startup's disappointing attempt at creating a crowd-sourced search engine experience that was shut down by the company a couple of months ago, Wikianswers seems to have gotten a bit of traction with that strategy.
Thankfully, YC-backed Chirply, which launches this week, is breathing some new life into greeting cards — and notebooks, and wrapping paper — by creating a crowd-sourced community where designers can submit fresh ideas for paper goods.
While it may take time to create a crowd, David Yarnold, president of the National Audubon Society, points out that there is a precedence of social movements creating environmental change.
"Trouw and ADE have made the biggest contribution to getting Amsterdam to take itself seriously as a clubbing city," says Marco. "Trouw created a crowd, educated a crowd".
The gaming industry's early attraction to VR has created a crowd of early adopters, who will help evangelize the adoption of VR in banking.
She also emphasised the importance of marketing and productization – something European startups are generally pretty bad at, even as they are great at R&D. Synthetron sounded like a fascinating way to create a crowd conversation.
