Crowd-Sourcing Innovation
Jake Zien was a 17 year old with a quirky idea for a flexible power strip. Ben Kaufman was a 19 year with a start-up and a vision of harnessing ideas just like Jake’s.
Now, thanks to Kaufman’s invention crowdsourcing site Quirky, Zien and other inventors like him are seeing their products go from sketchpad to store shelf faster than they can say “perpetual royalties.”
Snappy Socks
Here’s a mom-turned-entrepreneur who solved a common frustration that most of us just take for granted: Matching Socks.
