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

The Next Web

“On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In When they’ve got a team of thousand freelancers, and they just need a better way to manage and pay them, they can bring them on to oDesk.”.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

If venture funds could be supported by the local communities they invest in, you'd create a fantastic dynamic. You can get a list of the biggest pension funds and endowments and it wouldn't take that much legwork to figure out who manages their venture programs. I certainly would! You can't exactly look those people up on Angel List.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers. Everbill: invoice and estimate service. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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13 Sites You Love Built With Ruby On Rails

YoungUpstarts

Probably, the best-known photography community ever. Latvia-based, this service has all chances to overcome Formspring’s popularity. This is a useful web-based tool for project management. The company provides business management services in various spheres. Couchsurfing. Traveling can be cheap. Indiegogo.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. If something like that happens, you want to close everything, because it's a community spread. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He wasn't a media star.