Comments on: Cambrian House – Crowdsourcing Gets Real

By: Open the Spigit : Venture Chronicles

Open the Spigit : Venture Chronicles — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:43:33 +0000

[...] into the virtual stock market where idea shares are traded. Pretty straightforward, more so than Cambrian House but like that site it also relies a little too heavily on site specific [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:46:24 +0000

Good feedback. I agree with your comments about the proof is in the results and there are very few.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:09:07 +0000

Jeff – of the 30000 community members that CH boasts having what % has submitted code, built a project, earned shares? I’ve been amember for 18 months and could never – not once- sign up to contribute to a project

There is a lot of hype around CH but no substance. What have they actually done? Prezzle… that was done in 2005…and is now dead. Robin Hood Fund… built all internally… anything else… bueller… bueller… bueller….

Anyone else notice that their staff changes every month…what happened to the cute redhead? at one point they had 35-40 people there now… less than 20?

Something just isn’t right over there…I’m pissed that i wasted my time when these guys who are obviously only interested in flipping the company to some valley morons and not actually building anything of value.

By: The Eternal Quest for Good Design : Venture Chronicles

The Eternal Quest for Good Design : Venture Chronicles — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:15:43 +0000

[...] I wrote about Cambrian House a while back I could have been writing a case study for Nielsen. The user experience features [...]

By: Blue

Blue — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:10:56 +0000

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for writing about us. I’m glad you really like the idea of crowdsourcing. I just wanted to clarify that the 1% isn’t the only way to make money on our site. It is a gift to you for being in our community. Not to make our community members rich. Please think about it that way. The more you participate and work on businesses within Cambrian House, the more you have opportunities to “get rich” on other start ups/businesses that are created. This 1% is us basically giving up A LOT of our employee stock option pool to make this happen. Also remember we have no founder’s promote. This isn’t our founder giving up 1% of his stock he didn’t have to pay for.

If you are an accredited investor, I would love to have you invest in Cambrian House as well. In fact, i would prefer our community members invest over other people. Your investment would be the biggest drive for me to work as hard as I possibly can to make this a success.

Please let me know if you have anymore questions. I really appreciate you taking the time to look through our site so much, that is great!
Sarah Blue,
Cambrian House