Our own Jennifer Hicks, who recently started what promises to be a consistently entertaining and informative column at Forbes.com (Dante’s Soma), wrote a great article on the “Rise of the Knowledge Market” yesterday that profiles two new companies we absolutely love, Mancx and Acabiz. Together, these companies are helping to rewrite the way we think about knowledge.
“Fresh off their second investment round of $1.1 million from two prominent Swedish investors, Mancx is proving their concept of an online knowledge market to exchange personal information for money is a reality. They have set out to create a new set of standards in social search and global trade of knowledge…Think of it as Quora that you pay for, the mature Quora.”
“The idea behind Acabiz is brilliantly simple. They created a platform for academics, which they call knowledge holders, to connect with businesses, known as knowledge hunters, who are interested in their specific research expertise or knowledge. The Acabiz platform allows businesses to easily and directly tap into the knowledge network of thousands of academics worldwide who all have highly specialized knowledge in fields such as architecture, engineering, law, medicine, science, financial, economics, and others.”
Read more about these companies and the knowledge market in the rest of Jennifer’s fantastic article here.
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