Super angel Mike Maples is our guest host analyzing the labor crowdsourcing startup For many years, companies have looked overseas for "cheap" labor. Today, that labor can be next door, or anywhere in the country or around the world. Importantly, it can be accessed by companies - big and small - thanks to crowdsourcing efforts by startups, such as CrowdFlower. While crowdsourcing has been around for sometime, the "wave of crowdsourcing has yet to be defined," according to Mike Maples, a venture capitalist at Floodgate, an early-stage VC firm seeking to put $500,000 to work in promising startups. In the latest episode of Vator Box, Mike was our guest host analyzing CrowdFlower, a provider of labor-on-demand for simple tasks. CrowdFlower, which raised $5 million in funding in January from Bessemer Ventures and Trinity ...   [ Read more ]