I had a chance to sit down with the co-founders of crowdSPRING, Ross Kimbarovsky and Mike Sampson the other day, just shortly after they were featured as our sponsored startup of the day.
What crowdSPRING is, is a virtual marketplace to find the creative talents to fulfill just about any sort of digital endeavor one can conceive. With it's ancestral roots in sites like GetAFreelancer and eLance, it tries to take the concept much further by presenting an even playing field where work product is judged on it's merits, rather than a resume or CV.
It sounds like a simple concept to execute, but in terms of what's involved with creating an online economy like this, anyone who's tried to use these types of sites before knows that it can get mighty complex very quick. Ross, Mike and I all talked about these challenges and the extreme amount of thought, testing and care they've put into trying to make this the most fair place to find, perform and hire creative work.
The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
