Asking for stories over advice is equally short sighted, and isn't going to go any better in the long run. Just because something worked for Bill at UltraTech doesn't mean it's going to work for you at PunchStarter.
Crowdflower CEO: My Board Fired Me. Here's What I Learned
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#12The impression I get from this post is that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes. That the author's board and investors didn't support him remaining CEO the first time around gives a strong tell of an immature investor. Yes, people change and come around to sensibilities, but it's not like he's a brand new person coming back to the helm.
Those changes could have been made by a board who had fanatical support for the vision and the leader. I seriously doubt Crowdflower's board provided that support the first time, given they canned him like they did.
What everyone should learn from this is that picking the wrong investors when you get funded is the worst possible thing you can do to your company and yourself.
Re: Crowdflower CEO: My Board Fired Me. Here's What I Learned
#13Crowdflower is expensive . The contributors are filled with bad contributors (even after turning off the partner networks individually (accuracy of 97%) to justify the 20~30% mark up in fees when you could just use Mechanical Turk. The fact that you can't just fund your account and use the amount from it. If you want to launch several jobs, you need to cover for the overrun fee which is very annoying if you need to t…
You may want to take a look at SquadRun. Based out of India, much cheaper. https://squadrun.co/business/ Full disclosure: the founder is a friend.
do you have an email address I can reach your friend by?