[tompetty]

"We also truly believe in spending on hiring the right talent, contractors or agencies (and paying them competitive rates along with rewarding them with bonuses)."

And yet you recommend crowdsourced design sites like 99designs.com?

[bignoggins]

I don't find that mutually exclusive. Having a high priced contest on 99Designs is the best way I know of to get in touch with great designers. You can work with them further offline as well.

[ralphsaunders]

A great designer would not be seen near such a place. Heck, any self respecting designer would do their best to avoid it. You're buying the time of kiddies equipped with photoshop, nothing more.

[gyardley]

Agreed - in order to get a nice logo from 99Designs, I had to wade through ten tons of utter crap, but after doing that I both ended up with a nice logo and a relationship with a solid graphic designer that I've been working with directly to make additional assets.