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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Design |
| Founded | May 2007 |
| Founder |
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| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Custom Logo Design, Website Design, Illustration, Marketing Materials, Industrial Design, Copywriting |
Number of employees | 70 [1] |
| Website | www.crowdspring.com |
Crowdspring (written "crowdSPRING", legally crowdSPRING, LLC) is an online marketplace for crowdsourced creative services. [2]
Crowdspring was co-founded in May 2007 by Ross Kimbarovsky and Michael Samson. [3] Crowdspring launched its online marketplace publicly in May 2008. Crowdspring is based in Chicago. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
More than 200,000 graphic designers and writers from 200 countries work on Crowdspring. [10]
Crowdspring maintains a blog which was launched in mid-2008. [11]
When it launched publicly in mid-2008, the company and its business model received some criticism because Crowdspring's marketplace works on a speculative model and challenges traditional ways of buying and selling graphic design, industrial design, and copywriting services.[ citation needed ] This is the process of asking professionals to complete custom work for the chance of getting payment. [12] This means that most people involved in the process effectively work for free. [13] Crowdspring embraced and actively participates in the debate about its spec work business model. [14] [15]
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