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Mancx Survey: 98% of Americans* Distrust Information On The Internet

Nearly every American* (98%) says there are things that cause them to distrust the information found on the Internet, and 93% say their satisfaction with online information could be improved 94% say bad things can happen as a result of acting on inaccurate information onlineSAN FRANCISCO July 17, 2012 — Mancx , the trusted community for business answers, today announced the findings of its online survey of over 1,900 American adults who look for answers online conducted by Harris Interactive in late June 2012. The survey, which was drafted based on Mancx’s

Mancx Secures $3 Million In Financing and Opens US Headquarters

Financing Expands Support for “Industrial Strength” Business Answers Community   MANCX PRESS RELEASESAN FRANCISCO AND STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, June 12, 2012 — Mancx , the only trusted community for business answers that allows for private individuals to securely buy and sell their knowledge with others, announced today it has secured $1.65 million in financing led by Almi Invest and Chalmers Innovation Seed Fund bringing the total money raised to $3 million.  The money will be used to expand the world’s first community for paid business answers through social networks

Henrik Dillman & Mattias Guilotte: Information Matchmakers

Interview by The Daily Brink, March 4, 2012Knowledge is power. With the overabundance of online encyclopedias and a new debate surrounding the democratization of education, one could assume that wealthy Westerners and individuals in developing nations have access to a relatively similar amount of information as long as they both have a decent internet connection. Of course, the sad reality is that some answers are unattainable by just scrolling the web, and that those might often be provided by the wrong person. Our primary source of knowledge still remains our own personal network. Enter

Mancx announces partnership with social network Viadeo

The Drum, 15 December 2011 by Hugh Jordan  Online knowledge market Mancx has announced a partnership with social network Viadeo. The move follows Mancx’s integration into the LinkedIn network in September. Mancx matches together those with questions and those who can provide answers; then facilitates negotiation over payment terms and takes a 20% commission for its service. LinkedIn users will now be able to trade paid-for business information with members of Viadeo’s network, particularly

SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS: Viadeo and Mancx to deliver new social search service

Business social network Viadeo and Swedish online knowledge market Mancx have collaborated to provide a Q&A service that allows users to buy and sell information globally. The joint venture will allow professionals to search the network for people around the global with relevant business expertise. In addition to this the Mancx platform will automatically match business questions existing on Mancx with relevant Viadeo members. Following the application programming interface (API) integration with Viadeo and LinkedIn, the Mancx Matchmaker will match member’s business questions on Mancx

Mancx & Viadeo Partner, Bring Knowledge Market To 40 Million More Professionals

By Mika Aho, December 14, 2011Arctic15  winner Mancx  has partnered with Viadeo  to integrate the company's knowledge transaction platform with the Paris-based professional social network. Coupled with an earlier deal with LinkedIn, Mancx’s “knowledge market” is now directly available to more than 155 million business professionals around the world. Mancx allows business professionals to buy and sell information through its Q&A platform. Viadeo users will now be able to take advantage of the service and access a global

Mancx partners with Viadeo to extend its service for paid social search to 155 million professionals

MANCX PRESS RELEASE: 13 December, 2011, London, Stockholm, San FranciscoA new partnership could be set to revolutionize social search by coupling Viadeo, a professional social network with 40 million professionals worldwide with a question and answer service that allows users to buy and sell information on a global level. The partnership between Paris-based Viadeo and Swedish online knowledge market Mancx will allow members to search the network for people who are well placed to provide vital business intelligence. Furthermore, the Mancx platform will automatically match business

LinkedIn rival Viadeo pushes into Russia and integrates with business Q&A service Mancx

Viadeo , the professional social network which is particularly big  in Europe, Asia and South America, has announced two new partnerships today.Firstly, it is partnering with publisher Sanoma Independent Media  to create a joint venture in Russia. The deal will see Viadeo leveraging the success of business siterb.ru  to develop new online business services in the country. In addition, the Viadeo platform will be available in the Cyrillic alphabet,

How Crowdsourcing Will Give Access To Business Information In The Long Tail

9th December, Business Computing World by Mattias Guilotte  Mattias Guilotte is co-founder of Mancx , the online knowledge market. For the past 11 years Mattias has been working with various forms of business development and marketing at more than 40 companies. His key strength is a very wide perspective on the tools you can use to grow your business, and how you apply different solutions to different stages of the company's growth cycle. Crowdsourcing is already used for everything from design and software development to legal

New widget could ignite global knowledge community by allowing bloggers to charge for advice

THREE-SIXTY Engaging and building communities, 18 November 2011 by Ian WhitelingWhat if you got paid for answering questions from readers of your blog? Sound crazy? Well that may be the case, but like so many bizarre ideas before it, this one is now reality thanks to the AskMe widget by Mancx. Rather than just another revenue generating opportunity, the initiative aims to establish and grow a global knowledge community and market. How will bloggers charging for advice achieve this? Well, currently many questions put to bloggers, who are generally seen as experts in their chosen fields,

Sell Your Knowledge and Expertise on Your Blog, with Mancx’s New Widget

The Next Web, 17 November 2011 by Martin BryantWhile it’s easy to start a blog that shows off your knowledge and insight on a particular topic, making money from it can be a lot harder – those AdSense units probably won’t make as much as you thought. So, why not sell your knowledge itself? The new AskMe widget  from Mancx  lets you do just that. Once you’ve inserted the widget into your site, visitors can ask a question, give a price that they’re willing to pay for an answer and then send it directly to you. A back-end admin

AskMe widget enables bloggers to monetize individual knowledge

MANCX PRESS RELEASE: 17 November, 2011, London, San Francisco and Stockholm - Mancx blog widget for paid answers launched -Mancx is today launching its AskMe widget, a new tool for bloggers and online experts who want to generate more income from their expertise. During a successful beta testing period over 1000 bloggers from over 20 different countries and working in a variety of industries signed up and used the AskMe widget. The AskMe widget enables bloggers to get paid when answering any specific questions posed by their readers and visitors. The widget lets the visitor ask a

Mancx wins Arctic 15

MANCX PRESS RELEASE: 23 September, 2011, London, Helsinki and StockholmMancx, the online knowledge market, is delighted to announce winning the prestigious Arctic15  competition yesterday. Close to 400 startup enthusiasts came together in Helsinki to witness and judge fifteen pitches from the most cutting-edge startup companies from all over the Nordic and Baltic regions at Arctic15 . After rigorous debate and discussions between the jury members, Mancx  from Sweden, was announced the Arctic 15 Winner, and the startup with

Mancx brings paid social search to the users of business network

MANCX PRESS RELEASE: 13 September, 2011, London and Stockholm - New matching engine for knowledge revealed -Mancx, the online knowledge market, today unveiled Mancx’s Matchmaker at TechCrunch Disrupt, to enable users to match business questions on Mancx with contacts in their LinkedIn network, bringing a new dimension of reach to Mancx. Mancx’s groundbreaking knowledge trading platform gives LinkedIn users the perfect excuse to blow the dust off business connections they haven’t made use of in a while.  Says Mattias Guilotte, CMO and co-founder of Mancx: “The Mancx Matchmaker

Mancx raises further $1.1m for its ‘transactional knowledge market’

TechCrunch, 27 June 2011 by Steve O'HearMancx , the “transactional knowledge market” where users trade business intelligence (or answers to any question posted to the site), has closed a second round of funding: $1.1m from the startup’s founders and new backers that include Bo Axel Ax:son Johnson (of the well-known Swedish conglomerate Ax:son Johnson) and Nils-Robert Persson. Per-Arne Nordlander, the Swedish angel investor, remains as an investor and chairman of Mancx, while the company says that the new funds will be used to support further development of its

Mancx closes second round of funding

- Growth continues with appointment of Head of Development Jonas Bergström -27 June, 2011, London and Stockholm: Mancx, the first fully transactional knowledge market with global payin/payout capabilities, today announced the successful close of its second round of funding after receiving over one million USD. Launched in April this year, Mancx.com provides a market for personal knowledge where business professionals, freelancers and companies can meet openly or anonymously and trade information – ranging from simple questions to complex business information requests. Mancx connects the

The Rise of the Knowledge Market

Forbes by Jennifer Hick, 27 June, 2011  Image via Wikipedia Through the centuries, knowledge has been used to subdue and liberate. In many ways, knowledge has always been commercialized. A cobbler has knowledge of how to repair a shoe; your plumber has knowledge you pay for when your pipes burst on a cold winter day. Collectively, we are all full of knowledge and yet we do little with it. Today, we are beginning to see the emergence of online knowledge marketplaces where you can sell your personal knowledge. You can see

Informationsmäklare lockar till sig riskkapital

På den nystartade sajten Mancx kan olika aktörer anonymt köpa och sälja information till varandra. Nu går Antonia Ax:son Johnsons okända kusin in med riskkapital i det haussade it-bolaget. På den nystartade sajten Mancx kan olika aktörer anonymt köpa och sälja information till varandra. Nu går Antonia Ax:son Johnsons okända kusin in med riskkapital i det haussade it-bolaget. Trots att internet gör mängder av information tillgänglig för de breda massorna helt gratis tror två svenska it-entreprenörer att det finns många som är villiga att betala för rätt information. I våras

Knowledge marketplace Mancx launches

  SWEDEN— If knowledge is power, why are people so willing to share it for free online through Q&A services like Linkedin and Quora? Mancx, a Swedish startup, believes in the value of information and has created a transactional knowledge market where people can trade what they know for a price. Co-founder and chief marketing officer Mattias Guilotte says the service will prove especially useful for small business owners, independents and freelancers who don’t

Mancx: a paid-for Quora for the LinkedIn community

We have all been conditioned for so long to expect information for free online that it might seem a hard sell for a new startup to convince us that some information is worth paying for. But that's exactly what Stockholm-based Mancx  is aiming to do, tapping the growth in Q&A sites and the 'refreshed' consumer appetite for paying for content.   Conceived in late 2009 and launched in beta three weeks ago, Mancx is targeting small business professionals who need precise, accurate information and data to help develop their businesses.

Mancx launches as a LinkedIn Answers with bounties attached

TechCrunch by Steve O'Hear on April 6, 2011 Described as a “transactional knowledge market”, Mancx has launched today as a sort of classified ads site for business intelligence. Or to think of it another way: a kind of paid-for LinkedIn Answers where each request for specific information comes attached with a bounty.In fact, Mancx offers users the option of linking their LinkedIn accounts for additional credibility, while at the other end of the spectrum, users can also choose to remain

Mancx launches the first fully transactional knowledge market

MANCX PRESS RELEASE: 7 April, 2011, London - Challenging the established and asymmetric knowledge market -The first fully transactional knowledge market with both global payin/payout capabilities, and full anonymity offered for both companies and individuals, is being launched today by Mancx. Mancx.com is a market for personal knowledge where business professionals, freelancers and companies can meet openly or anonymously and trade information – ranging from simple questions to complex business information requests. Mancx connects the inquirers with the respondents, and offers them

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