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The emerging market of crowdsourcing is exciting for start-ups of all kinds. While I am not a Registered Investment Advisor, nor am I am invetment or securities lawyer I would like to post a word of caution for those that are exploring this model in the United State (well, any where for that matter).
Securities are regulated
Securities is a regulated ...
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We have had a single encounter with 99designs and did not quite like the process nor the result. Went out of both time and budget. Now shopping for designers locally again.
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Soon grasshopper -- soon.
First: What is this crowd-sourced funding?
The bill passed! (The "Jobs Bill" apassed in April deregulates the SEC to allow emerging growth companies to raise up to a million dollars a year from an unlimited number of unaccredited investors on public forums. This means that your company can raise money in a whole new way. But it ...
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I think a combination of the second and third options would work well.
That is, allow the professional to post a rebuttal to any comment on their profile, and, should the original poster choose to remove their comment, the rebuttal would be removed as well. If, however, the original poster does not remove the comment, other people visiting the site would ...
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Are your reviews tied to any concrete proof that the two groups worked together? i.e. did the consumer come to your site, and through your site hook up with the service producer, and then come back and write the review? If you can guarantee that the two actually did business, then I'd be weary of removing negative comments.
That being said, you could have ...
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I work with 99designs occasionally. It's not an amazingly low cost if you separate the design work from the rest of the implementation (like you have to with this) but it's good to have a lot of different ideas and pick the one that looks best.
One caution is that you can easily get designers who don't understand what does and doesn't translate into a ...
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In order to attract the developers you must have projects for them. In order to have projects for them, you must have developers. Ha?!?
Here's what I would do: figure out the niche for your site. Is it for designers, software developers, copy writers etc?
For example: if you take on software developers, don't make it for all of them. Start as a freelance ...
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Sounds like you've never actually used Kickstarter yourself. Rather than asking here, you should actually try pledging to a couple of KS campaigns yourself, and start following some discussions on campaigns you find interesting. It won't take you long to get the vibe of how it works.
Generally speaking, yes people do expect something tangible in return. For ...
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For an established start-up that is looking for an upgrade to it's branding as a component of the overall marketing of your company -- why not establish a relationship with a professional designer that will take the time to learn your company, your market, your unique value proposition and work with you to develop the visual components of your overall story? ...
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From a pervious post, here is my list of sites doing crowd funding:
http://www.kickstarter.com/
http://rockethub.com/
http://www.pozible.com.au/index.php
http://www.quirky.com/
http://www.fundbreak.com.au/
http://www.catwalkgenius.com/
http://en.fansnextdoor.com/
http://www.indiegogo.com/
http://www.cofundos.org/
http://www.profounder.com/
(I pulled this ...
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I have used crowdSpring for a webpage banner. The result was ok with a loootttt of hand holding and feedback. I am now considering 99designs for website design. The problem I am having is $$ cut to either of the sites is $39 + 15% which ends up to over $100 for a very small site. Given the fact that threshold to enter a website contest is $500, I believe ...
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There are a series of game related companies, that build products for other games companies, such as (a small taste, plenty more then listed below)
Unreal Engine from Epic Games
Unity
Torque Engine from Garage Games
Also depending on how you define platform, there are companies that provide backoffice tools to build your company, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, ...
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http://www.cloudcrowd.com/ and https://crowdflower.com/ are similar. Crowdflower uses mturk.com but does some quality filtering & offers some bpo / consulting.
BTW - the closest resurrection of google answers can be found @ http://uclue.com - they have ratings on the answers. How would you rate the questions?
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I've done biz dev in professional services. I also tend to hire a lot of professional services providers for companies I work with. E-mail marketing and other shove type of marketing does not work. PERIOD! To sell professional services effectively, one must invest a lot in building strong business relationships. It is all about face time, earning trust, ...
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I recently used 99designs for logo and web page design (two separate projects). For me the price was the bottom line. I am in the early phase of developing a startup and while I have the time to provide feedback, I do not have much capital. 99designs worked out well, but I worked extremely hard on both the design brief and designer feedback to ensure that I ...
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I'm a font designer and my question is, what is it you are having delivered to you?
If it is a graphic (bitmapped) image at several sizes there are no licensing concerns.
If it is a vector based image where everything has been converted to vectors, there is no licensing issue.
If it is a vector based logo with embedded fonts there may be a licensing ...
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As Gary said, if the wordmark is just an image, you usually don't have to deal with copyright problems since most font licenses are triggered only if you download the full font.
If you have to download the font, then the answer depends on the license terms of the specific third-party font that has been used. For example, this font license is ...
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Why not just populate it yourself, or use oDesk or something to hire someone to do it for you?
For me it's a red flag any time I am doing something that isn't simple, as often there is a simpler way. This idea you propose would be way past my "it's getting complicated" threshold.
I don't know the legal ramifications of doing your suggestion, but I would ...
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I think your navigation, layout and terminology is confusing users. I think you need to make the following improvements:
make the front page and main navigation focused around the three main reasons visitors are there (Start a quiz, add questions, see leaderboards), I suspect the general user doesnt care about your twitter link, searching for questions, ...
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I'm interested in crowdsourcing this partly for the low cost and partly to get the vision of several designers, rather than being tied to one person's view
Let's be clear. "Low cost" and "vision" pull in opposite directions. That's nothing to do with the platform: all the well-known ones, and for all I know many or most of the rest are good at their ...
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I've had some hit and miss experience with 48hourslogo.com and crowdspring.com. Lots of mediocre entries but a few good ones (and sometimes that's all it takes). I had bad experience using hatchwise, very amateurish designs so I can't recommend them. You can also look for logo designers on Elance, Guru, and oDesk.
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Had a Web badge done on 99designs. Did not quite like the experience, nor the result. Maybe it works better when you place the bounty well above the median, but then you don't get the price advantage anymore. (I do not mean just the direct costs - you would have to spend much more time providing feedback to hundreds of designers.)
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It is a concern if your logo exposes the purpose or general idea behind your website or if you're describing your purpose in great details to those who'd be designing your logo. I'd use minimal information as possible that would still be enough to "inspire" a graphics artist in the right direction.
One thing all founders are over-anxious about is the ...
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Nice site. One option for attracting eyeballs is to leverage your blog a bit differently or start a different one. (You current blog is of interest, IMO, to people that are already interested in your site.
Need to start blogging about topics that are of interest to the people that you want to attract, e.g., Five gourmet meals in less than 20 minutes, or ...
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I get a few of those every day and they go to the trash very quick.
Unless you are specialized on something unique, I don't see any success on it.
You better bet is pinpoint companies that can benefit from your services and call them directly.
Let me give you an example:
I was working for a online directory of industrial manufactures. Most of the ...
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Look at Half Life Gary's mod. Currently Valve (developers of Half-Life) hired him as a full-time level designer .
There can be many reasons; learning, fun (because they actually love the game). I'm pretty sure fun is the most important bit of it, if you game sucks I'm pretty sure no will bother.
Same goes for software, if the software is good or got ...
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Seems to me anyone with a good API and plugin/app ecosystem would qualify - Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Atlassian, etc.
And like Scott mentioned, Salesforce is a huge platform with their Force.com offering. I haven't really followed the company, but that seems like a big upside for them. A lot of developers targeting the business market are building on ...
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We are using 99designs right now for crowdsourcing a redesign of a website. It seems to me that the quality of our "instructions" to the designers is the most important part of the process. "Quality" can be relative though, I guess. Hopefully, we will get several good designs to choose from. I'll report back after the contest is over.
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I have only had experience with 99designs, so cannot compare the two. I did however have a very good experience with 99designs, and would recommend them (and will reuse them myself). I am not affiliated with them in any way.
I think also very relevant to your questions is how to get the most out of a contest, as no doubt you could get a good result in any ...
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