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Wattenberg and Viégas have also identified a "first-mover advantage": the initial contributor to an article often sets the tone, and that person is rarely a Macaulay or a Johnson.
"Our goal is not to get the 40 most successful people," said Roger Bennett, a founder who lives in New York and is senior vice president at the Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, an initial contributor to Reboot that now has 18 donors and a yearly $1.8 million budget.
Among non-contemporaries, there is no mutual cooperation and there are no exchanges in kind (see Barry 1989b, 189 203; Barry 1991, 231 234; Heyd 2009a, 167 176; but see Gosseries 2009, Mazor 2010, and Brandstedt 2015 for conceptions of indirect and transgenerational reciprocity that do not require that the initial contributor is among the final beneficiaries).
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What characteristic do the initial contributors share?
The initial contributors were recruited through friends in Kabul; these women in turn referred others from farther afield, in Herat, Fargana, Kandahar and elsewhere.
As Frechette's background is in design and (editoral) curation, he's chosen designers and writers to be Quarterly's initial contributors.
It is important to notice that Jim Curry emphasized the roles of NASA and Rackspace as initial contributors to the project; project did not start from zero.
"The Foundation is kicking this off with a significant financial commitment," and there were seven other Governments, including Canada, which were initial contributors.
By applying our model to a proposed crowdsourcing project, it is possible to balance resources (such as public outreach, time taken to analyze data, and initial cohorts of contributors) in order to make the most of potential contributors and to determine whether the approach is likely to be feasible and worthwhile.
And that initial group of contributors is already pretty diverse — for one thing, she estimated that more than half of them are nonwhite.
Develop a fund-raising plan about mailings, speaking, etc. Send out requests, telephone and meet with major party contributors for initial contributions to fuel the beginning campaign.
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