Crowdsourcing & Innovation: Develop ideas with the power of the crowd - with Brent Lessard

Crowdsourcing and innovation go hand-in-hand and are powerful tools if you're looking to develop new products or services.    But what is crowdsourcing? How can it help your business, and where do you get started?    Today on Start Up Talk, I'm joined by Brent Lessard and we'll discuss everything you need to know about how crowdsourcing works and how you can leverage it to develop great ideas for your business.   -Today's Guest-  Brent is the co-founder of rLoop, a global, crowdsourced engineering community dedicated to creating high-tech solutions using the power of the crowd.    For more info about Brent and rLoop, go to brentlessard.com and  www.rloop.org   - Additional info-  In this episode Brent and I have talked about different tools that help with online collaboration. Here are links to these tools:  Slack - www.slack.com  Ofistic8 - www.ofistic8.com  Hi Right Now - www.hirightnow.co  -About the show-   Start Up Talk is the weekly live show for entrepreneurs and start-ups. Connect with like-minded entrepreneurs, share your best practices, lessons learned, wins and frustrations, so we can all grow together.    If you liked this episode, make sure to join the live session every Thursday at 19:00 CET on:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheStartUpSuite   Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5Wqg8jFxM9Bhy0eo9LwiQ  #TheStartUpSuite #entrepreneur #business #success #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurtip #businesstips #startups #startup #crowdsourcing #rLoop #powerofthecrowd