In 2007, Ross left a successful 13 year career as a trial lawyer to pursue his dream of founding a technology company (it's only partially true that he did so in order to wear shorts and sandals to work) by co-founding crowdSPRING - the world's #1 marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design, industrial design and copywriting services. Buyers who need a logo, website, custom graphic design, industrial design or written content post what they need, when they need it and how much they’ll pay. Once posted, creatives from around the world (100,000 from 200 countries) submit actual work. Buyers select from among actual work (an average of 110+ per project), not bids or proposals. crowdSPRING has helped 26,000 buyers from 100 countries (including entrepreneurs, startups, small bu