Presentation of Irma Borst at Crowdfunding Day (April 15, 2013)

1. FUTURE OF CROWDFUNDING
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE OPEN SOURCE EVOLUTION?

2. 2 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
CROWD DEVELOPMENT
Early 1990s Open source movement
2000 Crowdsourcing
2006 Crowdfunding
1997
2006

3. 3 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT: ALSO A PARADIGM SHIFT
Driven by online volunteers Changing reward schemes
Attacking traditional business modelsNew licenses regimes

4. 4 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
EVOLUTION OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT

5. 5 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
IMPACT OF OPEN SOURCE IN VALUE
Share of software and services market (Daffarra, 2010)

6. 6 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
IMPACT OF OPEN SOURCE IN MARKET SIZE
• Linux (RedHat / IBM)
̶ 5-6% of home and business PCs (Febr. 2009)
̶ Over 90% of the supercomputers (Nov. 2011)
• Firefox browser (Mozilla)
̶ 150 million users, 15% of browser market (2008)
̶ 40% of the code developed by volunteers

7. 7 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
WHAT TO ‘COPY-PASTE’ IN CROWDFUNDING

8. W.A.M.BORST@VU.NL