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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. Managing an online distributed global team takes different set of skills, a different set of tools, it takes a different level of discipline. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5 million jobs.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #13: To be stealthy or not?

Austin Startup

Bazaarvoice came out of stealth mode roaring, though, and Sam Decker, our founding CMO, did a great job blogging on the launch and my long-time friend, Emily Brady at Brady PR, did a great job garnering the media attention that we had been waiting until the right time for?—?when But remember that this was 2005?—?and And it worked?—?today

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials: Introduction

Austin Startup

But I have put in hundreds of hours writing my blog, Lucky7, since 2012. The delivery model was superior to our competitors and eventually we disrupted them and became one of the global market leaders. Believe it or not, there were only three retailers in 2005 that offered customer reviews, the most popular of them being Amazon.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. ► 2012. (1). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. billion) in 2005. Let me cover each in turn.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around. 9, 2012: Thanks to Emily May’s Hollaback! Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org