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Cambrian House and team who helped Edison launch the light bulb launch new crowd-funding community
Big news, friends!
We’re proud to announce the Cambrian House community as we know it is taking its first steps towards its next evolutionary stage: crowd-powered capital.
First, the CH community proved people from all over the world could collaborate to think-up and polish ideas, then work collectively to build the best ones into real products and businesses (eg: Gwabs, OGGtours, FilmRiot, Mob4Hire, and more..)
Now we’re becoming VenCorps, a new community that will use crowdsourcing to find and fund startups, with $50,000 in fact!
It just seemed like a natural next step for us to join forces with Spencer Trask (the NYC firm who financed Thomas Edison, and who helped launch InnoCentive) to create a crowdsourcing community with a fund attached.
Starting today, we’ll be sending personal invites to all Cambrian House members to move their Cambrian House profile over to VenCorps.
Not a CH member yet, but want access to VenCorps? Join the CH community and we’ll make sure you receive an alpha invite too!
What does this mean for the Cambrian House community as it stands today?
It means the CH community will evolve into VenCorps - where members can submit startups for funding, access for advice & investment, and select winning startups in Startup Showdown (the new version of IDEAWARZ).
After a set period of time, all members should be up and running on VenCorps.com, but fear not our friends: we want all members to continue to have access to their ideas and businesses on CH for three months.
What do you want to see in VenCorps? Accept your alpha invite and let’s get the conversation started…
We promise to give you plenty of updates (blogs and video) over the transition period. We’re here to celebrate with you and make sure the process is squeaky clean (and fun).
Got questions? Check out the FAQ, the press release or send us a note at info(at)cambrianhouse.com
May 20th, 2008 at 3:12 am
[…] Entstanden sind dabei Projekte wie das Desktop-Game Gwabs oder Mob4Hire, eine Seite zum Testen von Mobilen Applikationen. Einige der erfolgreicheren Ideen sollen weitergeführt werden, während die Plattform in der nächsten Zeit eingestellt wird. Die New Yorker Firma Spencer Trask Ventures hat einige der Key Assets von Cambrian House gekauft, insbesondere die Community, und wird diese in neuer Form weiterführen - die für mich noch nicht ganz nachvollziehbare Idee des Venture Capital Crowdsourcing als Stichwort. Der Umzug der Community und die neue Idee werden im Blog von Cambrian House beschrieben. […]
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:12 am
I thought the firm was inspired by the PERSON who helped launch Edison’s lightbulb.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Hi, I transferred my account to VenCorps but not all of my Cambros transferred. How do I transfer the remaining 8500?
Thanks,
Darrin
June 18th, 2008 at 4:52 am
I would like to transfer my account and all of my Cambros to VenCorps.
Thanks
Priscilla
June 18th, 2008 at 6:38 am
please send me the alpha invite to VenCorps, thanx
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:36 am
hi my name is vinicius i’d like to know many people from other countries to talk and make new kinds of friendship
if you think the same, i can be with me in my page
well , sorry i forgot me i’m brazilian
thanks a lot people
i hope to know friends from everywhere
June 24th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Hi,
Could you please send me a invite for VenCorps ?
I am anxious to put my idea there!
Tks,
Marc
June 30th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Please send me an invite.
I am interested in submitting ideas based off of the Proximity Match private-label mobile social networking platform. (www.proximitymatch.com)
Regards,
Michael Brown
July 1st, 2008 at 4:37 am
iam noc
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July 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Would be nice if we received our invite! We could use some expansion capital to break in more advertising option coding!
July 17th, 2008 at 5:34 am
have I joined please.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 am
I would like to join vencorp, does this mean cambrian house will become defunct?