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

The Next Web

The company’s VP of Business Development & International Matt Cooper, with whom I spoke a few days before the IDCEE conference where he came to give a talk, is not really concerned with the rivals’ numbers though. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. million jobs.

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5 Lessons From the Garage48 Helsinki Hackathon

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It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. There is a requisite for each team to have at least one developer (frontend or backend), a designer and a marketing person. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Curious Hat: mobile exploration tools for curious children. SupplyHog: developing a new way to purchase building materials.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. And then, once that curve was low enough, governments could dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus was eradicated or we developed a working vaccine.