Archive for October, 2009
Small Business Spotlight of the Week
Bethany | October 30th, 2009Fete This week’s small business is a full service event production company. They provide meeting planning services for special events, corporate functions, galas, weddings (hint, hint Pete), corporate meetings and seminars. Not only can this company plan your next event, but they can cater it and offer your corporation concierge service as well. I know [...]
Type Nerds, Take the Test
Jeff | October 29th, 2009I was reminded today from Tal (a developer at crowdSPRING) that a new version of Ubuntu is out today. Code-named “the unoriginal banana” version or something, I don’t know. Ubuntu has great, but ridiculous, naming conventions. Now, Ubuntu isn’t exactly known to be friendly with designers. There are certainly people who use The Gimp and [...]
Dell Multi-Touch Monitor
Pete | October 27th, 2009Umm, Ross? Yeah, I’m gonna need you to go ahead and get me a new monitor. Mmmkay?
Small Business Legal Issues: Copyright Basics
Ross | October 26th, 2009Prior to crowdSPRING, I was a lawyer for 13 years – focusing on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. This is the first in what will be a regular feature in our blog discussing important legal issues that impact every small business. What is Copyright? Copyright is a form of legal protection provided to those [...]
Small Business Spotlight of the Week
Bethany | October 23rd, 2009Vasili Economopoulos & Associates, PC I recently sat down with a young, Chicago lawyer who has been practicing commercial and residential real estate law for a few years now and realized his dire need for business cards. I asked if he tried any other routes to get his business cards done before crowdSPRING and got [...]
Build a Better Light Bulb – Earn $10 Million
Ross | October 22nd, 2009You might recall that Neflix recently awarded a $1 million prize to a group that improved Netflix’s movie recommendation system by 10%. Thanks to eesdesigner, one of the designers on crowdSPRING, I learned today about an interesting crowdsourcing competition recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy – an award of up to $10 million [...]
