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Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. You’ll join others in our Freelance Mobilizer Program, recruiting people to join the Elance revolution. By holding training and social events in your city, you’ll ultimately become the online work expert in your community.

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

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Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Curious Hat: mobile exploration tools for curious children. Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers.

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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. So I think at that point, in fact I've started looking into this and you actually can see the mobility in different Western countries dramatically go down after March 10th.