Jessta Roll - dhotson: This is pretty much what the company I...

May
21st

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dhotson:
This is pretty much what the company I work for 99designs.com does.
(via stealourideas)

Crowdsourcing only works when the crowd benefits. The free software development model works because the contributors get to use an improved version of the software they’ve contributed to. 99designs appears to attempt to get people to do all the work with only a chance of payment thus the only real benefit is to the company putting up the ‘contest’.

This is pretty much what the company I work for 99designs.com does.
(via stealourideas)

Crowdsourcing only works when the crowd benefits. The free software development model works because the contributors get to use an improved version of the software they’ve contributed to. 99designs appears to attempt to get people to do all the work with only a chance of payment thus the only real benefit is to the company putting up the ‘contest’.