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− | {{w|Crowdsourcing}} is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. | + | {{w|Crowdsourcing}} is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. [[Cueball]] "crowdsources" not just ideas, but also the creation of the entire company. Cueball's business is suggested to be helping people with ideas find funding, a la Kickstarter, but rather than setting up a system to facilitate the process, the business plan instead uses social networks (such as Facebook and Twitter) that already exist, meaning that Cueball's business doesn't actually affect or aid the process at all. Cueball seems to be describing this process with buzz-words to impress a group of people who could themselves be businessmen. |
− | + | In the title text Cueball states that instead of doing any work they play video games, "shooters" refer to first person shooters, for hours on end. | |
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:Cueball: via already-in-place social networking infrastructure— | :Cueball: via already-in-place social networking infrastructure— | ||
:Cueball: with interested manufacturers, distributors, and marketers. | :Cueball: with interested manufacturers, distributors, and marketers. | ||
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:Nobody caught on that our business plan didn't involve ''us'' in any way— it was just a description of other people making and selling products. | :Nobody caught on that our business plan didn't involve ''us'' in any way— it was just a description of other people making and selling products. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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