Interview with Crowdflower CEO and co-founder Lukas Biewald on providing jobs Even though the economy is looking up, jobs are still tough to find. And, for companies, particularly startups, hiring full-time workers, particularly for simple tasks, is a tough proposition. What’s a startup or the unemployed to do? Check out Crowdflower, a startup that recently raised $5 million in funding in January from Bessemer Ventures and Trinity Ventures. In this interview, Crowdflower co-founder and CEO Lukas Biewald talks about how 200,000 workers have found simple tasks on Crowdflower. The type of worker runs the gamut, Lukas said. Many of the workers have college degrees. At the same time, Crowdflower is working with Samasource, which helps "marginalized people from refugees in Kenya to women in rural Pakistan" to get small jobs.The jobs seem ...   [ Read more ]