Archive for May, 2009
Why Is The Site So Slow? My Eyes Are Glazing Over!
Ross | May 20th, 2009As I wrote in my post on May 7 – “Fessing Up To Our Mistakes” – we ran into problems earlier this month with scaling our application. That post has a great deal of detail about those problems, our early efforts to solve them, and the lessons we learned. We know that especially during the [...]
Client Interview: Tate Linden (Stokefire – USA)
Ross | May 13th, 2009In our Client Interview blog series, we feature interviews with a client from the crowdSPRING community. Today, we’re very proud to feature Tate Linden and his company, Stokefire. Tate and Stokefire have posted numerous projects on crowdSPRING. 1. Please tell us about yourself. Easy enough. I’m Tate Linden, age 38. I’ve been married to my [...]
Fessing Up To Our Mistakes
Ross | May 7th, 2009We started working on crowdSPRING in the summer of 2006. We incorporated the company in May 2007 and launched the crowdSPRING marketplace in May 2008. We’ve learned many important lessons along the way. In some ways, our experience is typical of other start-ups. In other ways, it is not. I want to share some of [...]
Friday Fun Facts – Traffic Jam!
Mike | May 1st, 2009As a small business startup we spend a great deal of time looking at and analyzing data to help us drive strategy, make adjustments, and better understand our customers. We try hard to not be robotic in our response to numbers, but rather to let them inform our decisions and our direction. Here is the [...]
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before…
Kevin | May 1st, 2009So a guy walks into crowdSPRING… …that’s all I’ve got so far. Still working on it. Greetings and salutations, crowdSPRINGERs! Kevin DeLury here, doing all the new guy stuff that new guys are wont to. So far my time here has consisted of scuttlework: scrubbing the floors, polishing ping pong balls and re-doing the grip [...]
