From Anything Goes Wiki

Intention

I intend to help crowds of people make brilliant decisions

I Believe

Truly innovative ideas very rarely come from where people expect them to.

A crowd of well connected people is smarter than a room of experts every day

A crowd of people passionate about ideas has always been the most powerful force for change

People

My People feel passionately passionate about ideas

My People have brilliant ideas, and don't have an easy way of turning them into reality

My People are passionate about championing innovation

My People really care about sharing new ideas with their people.

Invention

Appswell allows crowds of people to make brilliant decisions by enabling them to effectively create, share, and vote on ideas,

"Stories"

Present

I Believe (non-timeless)

I believe that moments of inspiration strike when we're out in the real world, not tethered to our desktops I believe that physical crowds of people can be connected in amazing new ways through mobile technology I believe that people are the most powerful

Stories

I've been working in startups focused on online communities for more than a decade. I've learned that there is a tremendous amount of hesitancy on behalf of the company to give up strictly dictating the direction of the community, but can only succeed once it does so. Companies that can serve as ambassadors and facilitators rather than hall guards will attract the most compelling communities. Like a government, the right rules and paths to change those rules must be created, and openly shared.

Appswell launched in October '09. We were our own client of the platform, with ideas about iPhone apps. We're now enabling brands and companies to run their own campaigns to reach out to brilliant people who care about their products and brandsb'

We've been crowdsourcing iPhone apps in a competition based system, passionate app users with no resources to have their apps built submit them through our app, vote, comment, and share, with winning ideas being built.

We just launched a campaign for GE, a $200 Million open innovation contest around finding brilliant, fundable ideas for clean energy. Appswell is powering the mobile component of this.