Crowdflower CEO and co-founder Lukas Biewald says there’s a lot of free advice in the Valley Lukas Biewald is a first-time entrepreneur now at the helm of Crowdflower, a crowd-sourcing service for simple tasks. Since founding the company in 2008, Lukas has helped raise $6 million, with the most recent raise coming this past January from Bessemer and Trinity Ventures. In this Lessons Learned segment, Lukas, who admitted feeling uncomfortable giving advice given his limited experience as an entrepreneur, said that a person wouldn't necessarily think that perfecting a pitch or sales deck, or business materials, would raise the probability of getting funding or a sale done. But for him, it's the total opposite. "I've always done better when I pushed deals really hard," he said. Entrepreneurs should "close that deal, as far as you can ...   [ Read more ]