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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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How Data Analytics Influences (and Can Better Influence) Your Business

YoungUpstarts

No matter how many times companies and governments get in trouble for using people’s data to their advantage, (Can anyone say Facebook and Russia?), For example, Beantown looks to data analytics jobs Boston police can rely upon to determine where in the city crime occurs for officer distribution. Increased Data Analytics in Jobs.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

” There is no law, other than the word of the manager on duty — who decrees that we could get in with the camera if we paid some ludicrous amount of money to procure a permit on the spot. Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital.

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How We Grew Our Fashion Accessories Business To Over A Million Dollars In Sales

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

One of our top goals was always to have a New York showroom, especially one who had established relationships with the top accounts from Europe, the Middle East and Russia. My first goal was to establish a strong distribution channel here in the US. One of my personal goals has always been retention.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

However, I will then argue that while these methods are necessary to managing new ventures inside a company, they are insufficient. In this post, I want to share some new thoughts that build on Steve’s post, and connect them to Lean Startup methods. First, let me recap a key insight for me from Steve’s post.

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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

Rapid urbanization leads to problems such as difficulty in waste management, scarcity of resources, air pollution, human health concerns, traffic congestion and inadequate, deteriorating and aging infrastructures. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley.

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How and Why Your Startup Should Go Virtual

ReadWriteStart

The concept of virtual work has many names, from telecommuting and teleworking to distributed companies and remote workers. Lead a distributed workforce, consisting of full- and part-time employees, independent contractors or some combination, all working out of their respective homes. Consider communication services.