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

The Next Web

The main prize of oDesk’s competition is a trip to the Silicon Valley with guided tours to the offices of major Internet companies, including Facebook, PayPal, Autodesk, and others. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Have laptop – will freelance.

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

VC Cafe

To achieve the trifecta of startup success (money, talent, ideas), a vibrant startup community can make the difference between success and failure. When I moved to VC, I found out that there were no good consumer internet startups. Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS. They were sporadic.

Pakistan 113
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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Parveen Baji, Pakistan. All it took to turn Parveen Baji’s life around was a $70 loan from the Kashf Foundation.

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12 Questions with Self-Taught Designer and crowdspring Creative jhharoon

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdspring creative community of 210,000+ designers & writers from 200 countries. Jahanzeb is a self-taught designer (and self-proclaimed handyman) from Pakistan. Today we feature Jahanzeb, who goes by the username jhharoon.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

I used to simply send emails over the internet, like everyone else, but this is so much more fun–except when one of my emails hit a colleague in the eye! As the co-founder of the Virtual Global Consultant (VGC) Group, I love the fact that we have created employment in underserved communities globally. 15- Creating opportunities.

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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

May Mark Zuckerberg’s free Internet project help more on the long run than the one –off donations? " Zero rating means that accessing some websites and apps doesn't eat into an internet subscriber's data allotment. Source: Aljazeera). Women represent two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally.

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