Lib3

Elisha Jewell is working to bring to market a new publishing platform - Lib3. Through the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, she debuted the idea at the "What's the Big Idea" competition. What makes Lib3 different from the top publishing companies? Incentives. Lib3 combines #blockchain’s transparency with a token-based incentive system that rewards the community’s engagement in reviewing, editing, and publishing processes, linking its value directly to the platform’s success and user participation.

What a great weekend! Last weekend I had a chance to mentor for the "What's the Big Idea?" pitch competition, supporting Elisha Jewell and her amazing concept for Lib3 and a more egalitarian academic publishing model. Last year my cofounder Dustin Gilmer and I were in the hot seats pitching for Vitriform3D, and it was such an honor to work with Elisha and the rest of the mentor team through all of the ups and downs of preparing a pitch in a single weekend! It all came together with help from Victoria Frankel, MS, GS Jackson, Taylor Bozarth, Greer Miceli and the rest of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center team. While our team didn't win the competition, I now know from experience that the first pitch is just the beginning. Great work Elisha! #startupjourney

says "Putting an idea into action as a workable technology is not an easy feat. That is unless you are working with an amazing team. "Last weekend over 72 hours, I was thrown together with Victoria Frankel, MS, Alex Stiles, PhD, and Taylor Bozarth to make Elisha Jewell's concept around Lib3 become a reality. And it was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. "No, we didn't win the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center 'What's The Big Idea' pitch prize money but we did see that the opportunity we were building towards was truly a multi-million dollar idea. "Excited to see the industry of scientific research publishing be completely transformed by Lib3: "1) editors and reviewers get compensated for their work via Jewell tokens and can choose via calendar when they have availability to edit and review. "2) the authors themselves are incentivized to keep experimenting and writing and browsing others' work by earning Jewell tokens that can be cashed out for currency or credits to buy published research with our scientific research partners. "3) doubters can download the digital assets of the experiment that contributed to the research and try to disprove your hypothesis (of course for a fee) using a technology named Loupe. See the pitch and slide deck here - https://lib3.org