Problem
Pains
Negative Emotions
- Confused about how to monetise their work
- Fear that their IP will be stolen
- Frustrated with the lack of access to data
- Impatient about the commercialisation of their work
- Stressed spending spare time working on open source projects without monetary reward
Undesired Costs and Situations
- Time and effort spend working on a project without monetary reward
- Work done by you is owned by someone else (no ownership of IP)
- Unable to maximise the commercial potential of their work
- Difficult to identify the pertinent problems of an industry outside their expertise
- Working for someone else, less freedom to work on what they want
Risks that customers experience
- Loss of reward from the monetization of their work
- Income instability
Gains
Benefits
- Ownership of their work
- Commercialise their work
- Collaborate with industry experts regarding the problem
Desires
- Work for themselves, on what they want
- Earn by doing data science projects
- Collaborate with other people
- Improve their skill and reputation
Customer Jobs
- Build solutions to data problems
- Monetize the solution
- Identify problems to solve
Solution
Pain Relievers
- Easy and guided workflow to monetise their work
- IP is technologically assigned to the author
- Access to datasets
- Put out call for a dataset
- Commercialisation of authors work can be undertaken by someone else and author still gains financially.
- Earn an income by contributing from the liquidity pool provided by the platform.
- Industry experts can help identify the pertinent problems
Gain Creators
- The author holds the ownership of their work
- The value the authors work increases as other people commercialise it
- Collaborate with other individuals from different sectors around the world
- Build up reputation on the platform
Products and Services
- Provide a framework for doing collaborative data science project
- Monetization mechanism that rewards authors and contributors
- Collaborative ecosystem that drives solving data science problems