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

The Next Web

oDesk claims that it dominates the market of online freelance marketplaces with $360 million spent by its clients in 2012; this number for the five closest competitors combined – Elance, Freelancer, Guru, People Per Hour, and 99Designs – reaches only $310 million. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

Mobile News. July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Voted “Next Tech Titan” at the 2012 GeekWire Startup Awards, Tableau Software is on a huge growth trajectory.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Search for: July 3rd, 2012. 3 Responses to “Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors” Darrin says: July 8, 2012 at 11:59 am. Nick Wade says: July 10, 2012 at 11:25 pm. 7 great articles about mentoring startups… « Ercan Yilmaz says: October 2, 2012 at 9:07 am. [.]

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Mobile users, please click here to view this chart. Mobile users, please click here to view this chart.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Applicaster - Company Website.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter May 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

BROADCOM BUYS ISRAELI SECURITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SC SQUARE. Broadcom is acquiring an expert team of engineers focused on security&# – BroadcomConsumer device chip maker Broadcom has acquired Tel Aviv-based security software maker SC Square for $42 million. “With SC Square Ltd., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.