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

The Next Web

Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Interestingly enough, Russian users of two other major online work marketplaces – Elance and Freelancer - reported earlier that those also were active in engaging with Eastern tech professionals lately.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

I can't put up my track record on my blog, which I'd happily do--whether I have any exits (even though it is theoretically public what I've worked on and who might have sold to a company that rhymes with hype) and how the other companies are doing. I can't tell you anything about it thanks to the SEC. scratches bald head].

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Unambition syndrome

The Startup Toolkit

Similarly, if I was feeling equally excited by both, I’d spend time blogging rather than playing video games. And then, I found myself in Latvia, drinking with a guy who built 2 or 3 big tech companies. Derek Sivers recently raised the question of what you would do after you were rich and famous.

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