Small business
Weekly Glance of Awesomeness #2
Angeline | August 7th, 2008Hello ladies and gents, Welcome to the second installment of my Weekly Glance of Awesomeness. If you didn’t catch last week’s dose of awesome, every Thursday I’ll climb the peak of Mount crowdSPRING to seek out interesting projects on our site. If you have any tips or suggestions for future Glances of Awesomeness, feel free [...]
Weekly Glance of Awesomeness #1
Angeline | July 31st, 2008Hello ladies and gents, Sorry if it seemed a bit quiet on the crowdSPRING front yesterday. Ross is off somewhere enjoying the great wilderness that is the American Midwest, I was attending an interesting seminar / crash course-asaurus rex (the folks at Gaspedal can thank me for the formal name later), and that left poor [...]
Rockin the House (er, office)
Mike | July 19th, 2008The Wii has invaded the shores of crowdSPRING HQ and like all things “game” the response from the team was immediate and visceral. After some argument over the playground rules governing the choosing of teams, it was Ross vs. Chad in Guitar Hero: Those of us with teenage children, and others of us not far [...]
We’re Ready For Mixed Doubles in Ping-Pong
Ross | July 17th, 2008Only a very small percentage of developers are women. This already tiny number is even smaller in the open source community. Google – one of the most successful companies on this planet – has one of the best educated group of employees in the world. And Google credits much of its success to its emphasis [...]
Googley Principles – Not For Design Only
Ross | June 27th, 2008Late in 2007, Google’s User Experience group articulated design principles that guide Google designs around the world – design the “Googley” way. The team defined those principles as follows: 1. Focus on people—their lives, their work, their dreams. 2. Every millisecond counts. 3. Simplicity is powerful. 4. Engage beginners and attract experts. 5. Dare to [...]
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 [...]
A good Guy
Pete | June 12th, 2008While we can’t say that we know him personally, we do know this – Guy Kawasaki is a good guy and a friend of crowdSPRING. Or maybe a friend of a friend of crowdSPRING. Either way, Guy stuck up for us the other day and so we owe him one. So, help us return the [...]
Paying Your Employees To Quit
Ross | May 27th, 2008Zappos, the online shoe store, has a very unusual approach to weeding out customer service employees that Zappos does not believe will ultimately make the grade. One week into the training program for new customer service employees, Zappos offers new employees $1,000 to resign on the spot (about 10 percent accept). This is a very [...]
