Interviews

Do I HAVE to wear boots to a Bootcamp?

Jerome | July 3rd, 2009

One of my favorite companies in the world – Zappos – is planning a two day Zappos Bootcamp. At first, I got excited because one could never own enough boots, and Zappos certainly has one of the largest inventories of boots in the universe (or at least on Earth). I thought this would be a [...]

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12 Questions: Meet Vicky Willingham (UK)

Ross | June 11th, 2009

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]

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A Three Minute Interview With Ross About crowdSPRING

Ross | May 12th, 2009

Last week, I traveled to Hamburg Germany for the next09 conference. After my presentation (titled “Crowdsourcing Creative”) I was interviewed about crowdSPRING. Here’s a short (3 minute) segment from that discussion. We talked about crowdSPRING, the advantages and disadvantages of crowdsourcing, the reaction from agencies, and other topics. Here’s the interview.   Link:

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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before…

Kevin | May 1st, 2009

So 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 [...]

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Short Interview: Ryan Graves (SocialDreamium)

Ross | April 21st, 2009

At crowdSPRING, we love meeting other people and companies and often invite guests for lunch with our team. A few weeks ago, Ryan Graves of SocialDreamium (Ryan’s startup) joined the crowdSPRING team for lunch. Ryan currently works for General Electric in Wisconsin. SocialDremium is a startup involved with building web-based communities. Ryan had recently returned [...]

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12 Questions: Meet Allen (Utah, USA)

Ross | April 20th, 2009

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]

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We Hired Snow White!

Ross | March 20th, 2009

We received about 500 applications over the past 21 days in response to our ad looking for help with customer service. We talked with and met many outstanding people, but Jaclyn Moser turned out to be the fairest of all. And so, what could eight dwarfs do but to hire Snow White? We’ve tidied-up our place and now whistle while we work, with a smile and a song.

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Interview With Ron May – The May Report

Ross | March 14th, 2009

A few days ago, I had the opportunity to talk with Ron May about The May Report. Like him or not (and many don’t), Ron May and The May Report have outlasted the many Chicago tech companies who have appeared in the report over the last decade. In this 9 minute video interview, Ron and [...]

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Short Interview – Chad Paulson

Ross | February 19th, 2009

Is it possible that a man can be too obsessed with a movie? Not if you listen to our lead engineer, Chad Paulson. Chad and our dev team make magic happen. When we ran into issues with our content management system, here’s what Chad said: We came, we saw, we kicked its ass! (you’ll recall [...]

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