Joel Wooten
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Joel Wooten is an Associate Professor of Management Science at the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business.  His research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship, and his classroom experience includes courses in Innovation and Design, Web-Based Products and Services, Sports Analytics, and Statistics.

Recent projects include work with innovation tournaments and recommendation systems as well as research partnerships with XPRIZE and Merck.  With a history of entrepreneurial involvement, he has helped companies ranging from Fortune 500 firms to a local barbeque restaurant chain.  Professor Wooten holds doctoral and master's degrees from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech.

Innovation Tournament Resources

Understanding tournaments:  Innovation Tournaments (by Ulrich & Terwiesch)
Running your own tournament:  Darwinator
Tournament marketplaces:  Kaggle, Innocentive, Jovoto
Graphic design tournaments:  99Designs, Crowdspring

Moore School & University of South Carolina

Official Moore School home page:  Joel Wooten, Data Lab
Entrepreneurship:  FABER Center, USC Incubator

Online Tools for Entrepreneurs

Online publishing and design:  Weebly, Wix, InVision, Pidoco, Moqups 
Creating a great name:  Lingzini, Wordoid, naming (by Ulrich)
Logo generation:  Squarespace, GraphicSprings, 99Designs, Crowdspring
Buying or selling domain names:  Dynadot, Sedo
Website services:  Google Analytics, Paypal, Skype
Prototyping:  SketchUp, TinkerCAD, Ponoko, component vendors 
Data sets and searches:  Quandl, Wolfram Alpha
Data scrapers:  Import.IO, Kimono, Chrome Scraper
Legal documents:  Docracy

 

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