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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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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4

Steve Blank

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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Live now: The founder of Ciplex answers your entrepreneurship questions via video. Get involved!

The Next Web

In 2012, Inc. An early immigrant from Russia, Ilya founded his first company Ciplex, when he was 17. He is the founder of Ciplex , a digital marketing agency, and a columnist for Inc., Forbes and LinkedIn. Magazine recognized Ilya as a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur.

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Tomorrow on TNW: Your chance to ask Ciplex founder Ilya Pozin your entrepreneurship questions

The Next Web

In 2012, Inc. An early immigrant from Russia, Ilya founded his first company Ciplex, when he was 17. He is the founder of Ciplex, a digital marketing agency, and a columnist for Inc., Forbes and LinkedIn. Magazine recognized Ilya as a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. Skype is probably the most famous of them, but there are a lot of other examples including Game Insights, Kaspersky and Parallels in Russia, LogMeIn and Prezi in Hungary and Avast and AVG in the Czech Republic.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 4 – Bridge Colby

Steve Blank

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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