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Mobile Works
http://www.mobileworks.com/Last activity: 24.10.2015
Active - Reference to LeadGenius
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Employees
51-200
Mentions in press and media 14
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| Oct 24, 2015 | We’re sitting on a big data time bomb | $114 billion. That’s how much global organizations will spend on big data in 2018, an increase of more than 300 percent in just five years. But how much of that is money well spent? Over the past 10 or so years, we’ve seen widespread adopti... |
| Dec 6, 2013 | YC Alum MobileWorks Aims To Make Acquiring Users Easier (For A Price) With LeadGenius | Startup founders, especially those up to their necks in product development, don’t always have the head for building the kinds of customer bases required to keep their business afloat. That’s where Y Combinator alum MobileWorks comes in. It... |
| Oct 18, 2013 | From shorthand notes to full blog post: A review of MobileWorks (YC S11) in Business Insider | I often find myself pressed for time. Wouldn’t it be great to be in two places at once, being twice as productive? This is where a company called MobileWorks comes in extremely handy. It’s a crowdsourced virtual personal assistant platform... |
| Aug 15, 2012 | MobileWorks (YC S11) virtual workforce completes 1M tasks | MobileWorks launched last summer with a simple, yet big mission: Build a viable alternative for Amazon Mechanical Turk and in so doing create a motivated, happy and accurate virtual workforce. While Mechanical Turk has its appeal, as a way ... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | Backed By Andreessen, Virtual Workforce MobileWorks Completes 1M Tasks For Startups In 1st Year | MobileWorks launched last summer with a simple, yet big mission: Build a viable alternative for Amazon Mechanical Turk and in so doing create a motivated, happy and accurate virtual workforce. While Mechanical Turk has its appeal, as a way ... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Newest TechStars Network Member Hub Ventures Is Looking For “Change The World” Startups | Hub Ventures, the San Francisco-based startup accelerator focused on funding entrepreneurs “building a better world,” is the newest member of the TechStars network. The official announcement of its TechStars affiliation will be made next we... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | What comes next | Now is a great time to be an internet entrepreneur. While much of the global economy sputters, tech companies post growth numbers other industries haven’t seen in years. Their success hasn’t gone unnoticed, and the pace of tech-company crea... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Can Crowdsourcing Make a Dent in Unemployment? Ask MobileWorks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Jobs are the single biggest political issue of the day in the U.S., and rightly so. As of August, the official unemployment rate in the United States stood at 9.1 percent. Tha... |
| Aug 29, 2011 | MobileWorks turns human workers into a computer program | You’ve probably heard of the term “crowdsourcing” before, and you might even have seen or used Amazon’s successful attempt at monetizing this newfangled concept through Mechanical Turk — but both of these approaches, despite their power, ar... |
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FAQ about Mobile Works
What has the press written about Mobile Works?
Parsers VC has collected 14 articles mentioning Mobile Works, among them “We’re sitting on a big data time bomb” (Oct 24, 2015) and “YC Alum MobileWorks Aims To Make Acquiring Users Easier (For A Price) With LeadGenius” (Dec 6, 2013).
Is Mobile Works still active?
Yes, Mobile Works is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 24, 2015.