As a member of the Cambrian House (CH)—although not an extremely active one—I've found it to be quite an intriguing idea/concept. Without going to into detail about it, CH members submit ideas to the community and the community fleshes it out and decides if they think it is viable. If it is CH does whatever possible to provide the project with funding to make it a reality. More on their website.

Now to my point of this blog post. It appears things are being kicked into overdrive as CH is teaming up with Spencer Trask. While I'm not sure I like the whole rebranding into the new and improved VenCorps, using the crowdsourcing method with "real" investors seems like a great move. I've signed up for the alpha site and will hopefully report back in the future with my thoughts. It's still in the early stages and is somewhat quiet at the moment.

:: I really just can't get over the name. It doesn't do it for me ::