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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0 based teachers.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? A third of our work life goes to paying for government services, and yet few have scratched the innovation possibilities in Government, so what might be the Google strategy for their Government footprint? Result: sale was made.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

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