IT Life Radio: The Evolution Of Crowdfunding

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Does your enterprise have a crowdfunding plan? Does your IT department have capabilities to help your enterprise with crowdfunding? The concept presents challenges your IT department might not be ready for. We'll talk about all of that on IT Life Radio, this Wednesday, Aug. 12 at 2 p.m. ET.

Most people think about Kickstarter or Indiegogo when they think crowdfunding. And that's still a big part of the scene, but enterprises are starting to use crowdfunding, even companies you associate with strong analytics, forecasting, and supply chain abilities. Big companies such as Disney and Timex are in the crowdfunding business now.

That's because crowdfunding is helping to flip the manufacturing process. It used to be that you'd design a product, try to figure out how many you'd sell, build it, and then sell it. Now, you design the product, try to sell a bunch, and then build exactly the number you need. Less waste. Less risk. More profits.

That's hard to do, and it comes at a cost in complexity and in technology needs. On this episode of IT Life Radio, we'll talk about how changes in crowdsourcing are affecting large and small enterprises and what IT pros need to know about those changes. We've got Chris Tsai, founder and CEO of Celery, to help us keep track of the changes in crowdfunding. In this episode you'll learn:

Chris Tsai is co-founder and CEO of Celery, a pre-order platform for launching new products. Chris studied quantitative marketing at Wharton, computer science at MIT, and built his first PASCAL program when he was 12. The son of a serial entrepreneur, he has been working on tech and social finance startups since college. Before creating Celery, he led Groupon's expansion in Asia.

Tune into IT Life Radio at 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Aug. 12, and learn how to make crowdfunding work for your enterprise.