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

The Next Web

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. Of those 350 freelancers I’d guess we have between 40 and 50 countries represented.”.

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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

View from Seed

That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. I served in Pakistan and Australia. Tissue engineering is a field that is only a couple of decades old. One of the biggest issues right now is tissue engineering.

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12 Top Picks: Austin Startup Week on Oct 12

Austin Startup

Media in Tech Meet Up 5:00 pm at WP Engine This Meet Up is hosted by MediaTech Ventures and WP Engine. The Pakistan Entrepreneur Scene 11:00 am at Capital Factory Yes, the start up scene is sizzling in Pakistan too! Department of State to our City and administered by the Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce.

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). We attract great global talent. Cause technology changes very fast.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

Viber is quite global. Obviously, we index better in some countries (and worse in others), but it’s pretty much a global phenomenon. Blackberry does not have native code support, so we could not port our own voice engine to BB. We recently announced partnerships with Axis in Indonesia and Mobilink in Pakistan.

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