How a Coffee Startup Chose its Crowdsourced LogoSometimes, the answer is clear.
This story appears in theMarch 2017issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »
Chris Dominello and Mike Roussell created an antioxidant-infused coffee calledNeuro Coffee. Before launching their company last winter, they needed alogo. A design shop can take "up to four weeks and tens of thousands of dollars," says Dominello, and they didn't want to spend either. So they instead used99designs, an online startup that sets up design contests: Entrepreneurs post a brief and offer a prize (in this case, $1,600), and people across the world submit entries. "We had 40 different designers with 40 images in, like, an hour," Dominello says. Here are six, plus explanations from the designers. Turn the page upside down to find out the winner.
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