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What living in different countries has taught me about life (and work)

Austin Startup

You must be able to speak to a client’s language, whether it is breaking a technical conversation into layman’s terms or on the other hand, using examples to showcase your knowledge of the space. Rather than being embarrassed, I will be candid and defer to following up with our engineering team.

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

The Next Web

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. In our customer service team we have a hundred freelancers, in our trust and safety team we have another hundred, in our engineering team we have close to 150. million jobs.

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12 Top Picks: Austin Startup Week on Oct 12

Austin Startup

The ATX Startup Crawl is free and open to the entire Austin startup community. Bringing a Virtual Community Into the Physical 2:00 pm at the New Movement A discussion of the streaming community from Twitch. Why do these communities matter? Last year, more than 50 companies and 6,000+ registered crawlers participated.

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