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

The Next Web

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. But managing someone online is entirely different than working with someone in person.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. We have 30 procedures to go through when starting a legal business entity – ranking us #5 globally of light bureaucracy when incorporating. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor the Dutch outperform the EU big five in terms of early stage entrepreneurial activity.

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Startup venture and alumni funds

VC Cafe

UiPath – originally from Romania, UiPath pioneered the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) category and experienced meteoric growth in recent years and raised almost a billion dollars to date. Silicon Valley has long been a fan of “Startup Mafias” Perhaps the most famous web 1.0 Alumni funds.

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Is Outsourcing Exploitation?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Even though $300 USD a month may not seem like much to someone living in a developed country, in Thailand, or Romania, the Philippines, or India, it’s above the average monthly wage. Anyone with access to the Web has the same opportunity, it’s just what you do with it that counts, right? Well sort of.

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

UK, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia. The Global Gender Gap Report is a fabulous example how to solve this problem. (This is embarrassing but I was surprised how big Italy is, and how small Sweden is.). The clusters of countries next to each other, for the sake of cleaner lines, all by itself has a built-in message. Cyprus and Ireland.

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You’ve graduated from the incubator cocoon… now what?

The Next Web

Incubators and accelerators have provided a tremendous boost to the start-up ecosystem, but the arena also requires another medium to step in for those accelerator graduates – one that helps them scale, go global, and gain critical traction to attract market interest and investment.

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THINK. TECH. DISCOVER.

Austin Startup

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. Global Innovation Exchange : Great place for people looking to promote their ideas and get funding. Just how cool is that?

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