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

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Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5 million jobs.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns. WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns.

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