CloudCrowd

ABC TV Visits CloudCrowd Offices

ABC TV visited CloudCrowd yesterday to interview CEO Alex Edelstein about the power of crowdsourcing and the opportunities that internet outsourcing is opening up to people such as stay-at-home moms and retired professionals who might not otherwise have access to work.  Two CloudCrowd workers, Paul and Andrea, were also interviewed.  The story, which aired on ABC News, showed off CloudCrowd's San Francisco offices and operations center. 

CloudCrowd Announces $5.1 Million Funding Round

This past week we closed a $5.1 million Series B funding round, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).  We're delighted to be working with DFJ, who from the start has embraced our vision of a transformative platform for business processes. The funding will be used to build our engineering team and expand our business development efforts.

CloudCrowd Releases TranslationZen

CloudCrowd is officially launching TranslationZen.com today, a translation service powered by our labor operating system.  The service is positioned to massively disrupt the translation market, and at $19.95 per page for 24-hour delivery, we're 50% less than the competition for standard 72 hour turnaround-- with delivery in one-third the time.

Crowdsourcing Moves Beyond Open Innovation

Andrea Meyer talks about crowdsourcing in a recent post in her "Working Knowledge" blog.  The post hones in on one of the key differences between Crowdsourcing 1.0 and the newly evolving Crowdsourcing 2.0 models, quality.

CloudCrowd Named to Entrepreneur Magazine, "100 Brilliant Companies"

Entrepreneur Magazine honored CloudCrowd today as one of their "Brilliant 100" -- in their annual list of the "most brilliant" companies in the U.S..

Entrepreneur's Editor-in-Chief describes what it takes to make the list:

"Somewhere in the shadow of the gratuitously covered corporations and their well-heeled CEOs lies a far less obvious and far more colorful subset, entrepreneurial companies and their leaders. We like to call them the Brilliant 100.

These companies are the influencers and trailblazers who innovate and reinvent...Collectively, they are companies that eviscerate Jurassic business models and sometimes democratize entire industries, much to the chagrin of said industries. These companies constantly recast notions...These are, to us at least, the 100 brilliant companies to watch. Led by dazzling 'treps, they will inspire the next generation of greatness. They will effect change. They will directly impact the economy.

And they will piss off a lot of the old guard.

For that, we celebrate them. (Not that we like pissing people off. But we like change. And, OK, sometimes we like pissing people off.)

What makes a company brilliant is hard to measure, and it differs from company to company. But there are common threads that link them together: Simplicity and clarity, from idea to execution. Sureness of self, reflected in a company's success and presence.

Most of the Brilliant 100 have capitalized on opportunities no one else envisioned. That's what 'treps do. Take, for example, the current culture of the tightwad. We found 10 companies--from BillShrink to Groupon--that took the concept of cheap and developed its potential. It's genius. Everyone is looking to save money right now, and a groundswell of companies is tapping into this need...

Opportunity abounds right now. To take your idea to execution, be brilliant. Be able to explain it in two sentences or less. That is the theme of this year's Brilliant 100. Simple, obvious, curious...and innovative..."

We are honored to be included.

CloudCrowd Featured on NBC

Co-founder and CTO Jordan Ritter is interviewed on NBC's Press:Here by host Scott McGrew, Jon Swartz of USA Today, and Jon Fortt of Fortune.  Jordan discusses CloudCrowd's advantages as a second generation crowdsourcing platform as well as his experience during the early days at Napster. Check out the segments below. 

CloudCrowd, Part 1

CloudCrowd, Part 2

CloudCrowd Featured in "Prime Time" Post on TechCrunch

CloudCrowd is featured today in a "prime time" Friday morning TechCruch home page post:

CloudCrowd Takes On CrowdFlower To Outsource Labor To The Cloud: 

"CloudCrowd, promises to increase efficiency and lower costs to companies by breaking large projects into smaller tasks, and distributing them to its virtual workforce.

Once a client assigns a task to CloudCrowd, the company will distribute tasks its work force of more than 20,000 workers. With each task completed, a worker earn a credibility rating that determines the types of tasks they are offered. Workers who don’t have a rating yet are assigned basic tasks until they develop a reputation. Workers are able to see how much each separate task pays, and earnings are distributed through PayPal."

The post goes goes on to highlight the attention that Labor as a Service is getting and validates the space.  

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CloudCrowd To Demo at S.F. New Tech Tonight

CloudCrowd CEO Alex Edelstein will present a live demo of the CloudCrowd platform at S.F. New Tech this Wednesday evening.  Hundreds of companies have hit the SF New Tech stage to launch, and expose their brand in front of Bay Area early adopters, press, and VCs.

The fast paced format (five minute demos and five minute Q & A sessions), hand-picked presenters, and a great crowd of regulars always makes it an enjoyable evening.  Tickets are still available at the link above.

If you can't make it, but still want to see the presentation, check it out streaming live starting at 7:30PM PST at justin.tv.