Small biz spotlight
I Love Vimeo
Chad | March 23rd, 2009I use Vimeo to document the artists on K that come to Chicago. When I ran into an issue of not being able to upload as much HD content as I would like early last year, Vimeo’s dalas verdugo was there to help by increasing my weekly capacity on the spot. I mentioned to dalas [...]
Short Interview – LumeeFly.com
Ross | January 16th, 2009At crowdSPRING, we love meeting other companies and often invite guests for lunch with our team. On January 13, Tommy Johnson, Jr., CEO of LumeeFly, Inc., joined the crowdSPRING team for lunch. LumeeFly is a new media company launching in the second half of 2009 (their website is not yet active). LumeeFly will serve music [...]
Short Interview – EveryBlock.com
Ross | January 14th, 2009At crowdSPRING, we love meeting other companies and often invite guests for lunch with our team. On January 9, we had a great time playing ping-pong and talking over lunch with the team from Chicago’s EveryBlock. EveryBlock is a new way to keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all [...]
laFraise vs. crowdSPRING
Angeline | August 18th, 2008Calling all crowdSPRING creatives: We’ve teamed up with laFraise to host a t-shirt design project on their site for our community. The theme? “Creativity is….” (Would you expect anything less from a creative marketplace?) There’s quite the hefty reward involved for the top 3 entries, so keep reading for all the details… Who is LaFraise? [...]
Typography is Sexy: Part 1
Angeline | July 21st, 2008Over the past few weeks, we’ve been brainstorming at the crowdSPRING office on ways we can provide more resources for our creatives. One of the ideas we came up with is having guest bloggers spotlight topics of interest to our community. We are very happy to welcome our first guest blogger, Adelle Charles, who runs [...]
Rock on!
Mike | July 2nd, 2008Creative opportunities for regular folks just keep getting better. A few weeks ago, I wrote about popdeck.com a site that allows artists, designers, students, skateboarders – really anyone with a creative urge – to upload designs for skateboard decks and compete against one another to have their design put in production by Popdeck (and a [...]
Disruptive-sourcing
Mike | June 12th, 2008crowdSPRING is an unusual way of sourcing creative services. We are working to create a new model, one that seeks to deconstruct and disrupt the traditional process and showcase the talents of an under-served, underdog community of creatives. In addition to the many experienced, highly trained professionals that populate our site, we are proud that [...]
Ask crowdSPRING: How many countries does cS reach?
Ross | May 26th, 2008We’ve long admired 37signals, a great Chicago company located only a few blocks from us. We love their products (Mike and I have used Backpack since 2006, when we first came up with the idea for crowdSPRING, and our development team uses Basecamp to manage multiple projects and for collaboration). We also love their Signal [...]
Threadless on the cover of Inc. Magazine – Congrats!
Ross | May 20th, 2008A huge congratulations to Threadless for making the cover of the current issue of Inc. magazine! Inc. calls Threadless “The Most Innovative Small Company in America” and this recognition is well deserved. You can read the entire article by Max Chafkin here.
