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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. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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I am a developer, yet I outsource the development of my startup

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

That’s right, I prefer writing code than writing words and yet it’s been two months now that I started outsourcing the development of TaskArmy to someone in Ukraine. Obviously, since I outsourced development, I have more time and I can spend this time for marketing and blogging. I actually hired two girls for $3/hour each with this ad.

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Is Outsourcing Exploitation?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I can’t even hire ONE Australian full time on that kind of money, let alone an entire team. The basic premise behind the type of outsourcing we are talking about here, is hiring people from other countries where labor is comparatively cheaper than hiring from your local country.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? I’m trying to be optimistic. David Zhang.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system. Still, you need some amount of development experience to do all of this so you still need to hire--or why not just do it yourself? Don't want to learn code? That's right--Indiana.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Early hires are super important: check for skills, motivation and cultural fit. Remember that speed is the secret weapon of startups.

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Are You in a Bubble?

Diego Basch

It’s like asking “are we in Ukraine?” Are you in Ukraine by any chance? ?????? As an aside, this is why I’m more optimistic about niche social networks like LinkedIn: they make a ton of money from their hiring solutions business. ” which I can answer easily for myself: [ waiting for location. ]

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