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

The Next Web

On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In Most of clients are “startups, small businesses, and solo entrepreneurs who are building their business on or around oDesk,” Cooper said.

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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

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out?