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Alec Lynch is one of the founders of DesignCrowd, a marketplace for crowdsourced design services. He talks to Pete about the challenges (and benefits) of getting investment and also gives some great tips on using the DesignCrowd service successfully.

Video Time Code:

03:40
Pete's latest project
http://www.earherosports.com.au

06:20
Introduction to Alec Lynch

10:36
The Idea of DesignCrowd

14:58
How CrowdSourcing Work

19:08
The Dark Side of CrowdSourcing

25:36
What's Next with DesignCrowd

33:29
Angel Investors and DesignCrowd

43:49
Tips on DesignCrowd

As a lot of you may know, a few years ago, Pete was one of the finalists in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards for the telecommunications business he's involved with. Well, Alec went through the EoY program this year, and did a little better than Pete – he was named Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in the Eastern Region (2014).

His business, DesignCrowd, is all about crowdsourcing design work. It's one of those platforms where you can put a brief about your project (e.g. you need a logo, a book cover, or a banner designed), and then designers from all around the world will do a spec work and present you with their best ideas. You then get to choose the one you like the best. It’s like a smorgasbord of graphics!

Alec has grown his platform to be one of the largest in the world. If you're not familiar with it, they talked a lot about the platform, the pros and cons, how to get good results out of it, and more importantly, how Alec bootstrapped and built his business. There's definitely lessons in that for you to grow your business as well.
Links From This Episode:

Download the 7 Levers of Business Report - http://7leversreport.com/

Try out DesignCrowd.com, the crowdsourced design service - http://www.designcrowd.com/

Check out earHeroSports.com.au, Pete's new business venture - http://www.earherosports.com.au/

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