Sat.Oct 26, 2013

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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. Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5 million registered freelancers who have worked 35 million hours in total, as well as 900,000 clients who have posted 1.5 million jobs. oDesk claims that it dominates the m

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The Switching Economy

deal architect

'Accenture has a study which should startle every major brand Despite having more data and insights into consumer desires and preferences, companies in the U.S. have failed to meaningfully improve customer satisfaction or reverse rising switching rates among their customers.

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300 Teams in Two Years

Steve Blank

'This is the start of the third year teaching teams of scientists (professors and their graduate students) in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps). This month we’ve crossed ~ 300 teams in the first two years through the program. I-Corps is the accelerator that helps scientists bridge the commercialization gap between their research in their labs and wide-scale commercial adoption and use.

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10 Steps To Maximize Clout In Your Business Today

Startup Professionals Musings

'Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Too many entrepreneur “wannabes” never get past the idea stage, or strike out randomly in many directions, hoping that their passion will convince people to follow them and make their business grow.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Hong Kong Seeks to Collaborate with Austin Startups

SiliconHills

'For years, Hong Kong has served as the gateway to China for the Western world looking to get products designed and prototyped and then manufactured on the mainland. But now the exotic Asian island wants to reinvent itself into a startup hub with the Startmeup.HK initiative. And it seems to be working. During Austin Startup […] The post Hong Kong Seeks to Collaborate with Austin Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Make New Rules

Mike Michalowicz

'Google changed the search engine rules established by Yahoo, MSN and AOL (remember them?) from tons of news and ads on a search page, to a simple box. Then Google dominated the industry. Netflix changed the rules made by Blockbuster and shipped movies to your mailbox. Now Netflix is changing the rules again and winning Emmys for TV shows that will never air on TV.

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Don’t just do one thing: Why parallelism is the way to find what you should focus on

The Next Web

'This post was originally published on the Makeshift blog. A few years ago I was stuck. I’d stopped enjoying what I was working on, and I needed a change. I had several ideas that I thought could be good web businesses, and I’d prototyped a few of them. I was invited to speak at an event, and on the panel with me was a prominent person in the London tech scene.

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Four Lessons Innovators Can Learn From the ACA Failure

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

'Kathleen Sebelius is a politician, not a product designer. The fiasco surrounding the roll-out of The Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka Obamacare) website might be the most predictable innovation failure of the last 30 years. It pains me to say so, as I’m a believer in the law, but wow, the Obama administration screwed the pooch on this one. There really is no excuse – although there are logical reasons — why this happened.