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

The Next Web

In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have been sort of anchors for oDesk on the technical side,” Cooper explained.

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Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition

Steve Blank

neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. For 25 years as the sole Superpower, the U.S. The country, our elected officials, and our military committed to a decades-long battle to ensure that terrorists like those that executed the 9/11 attacks are not able to attack us on that scale again. National power is ephemeral.

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What the West needs to know about Russia’s tech scene

The Next Web

For many investors and entrepreneurs in the West, doing business in Russia can seem like a step into the unknown. With a little knowledge of some of the key cultural differences and unique properties of the local tech scene, Russia can easily become one of the most attractive tech markets in the world for investors. Russia in numbers.

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Tomorrow on TNW: Your chance to ask Ciplex founder Ilya Pozin your entrepreneurship questions

The Next Web

Streaming live on The Next Web, Ciplex founder Ilya Pozin will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. An early immigrant from Russia, Ilya founded his first company Ciplex, when he was 17. Ciplex is a digital marketing agency that provides web design, application development and marketing services. ET (12 p.m. ET (12 p.m.

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Book: The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

Feld Thoughts

The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries was one of two books I read this weekend (the other was Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness ). The Red Web covers Russia’s history around the Internet starting during the Cold War with a focus on the last twenty years.

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Live now: The founder of Ciplex answers your entrepreneurship questions via video. Get involved!

The Next Web

An early immigrant from Russia, Ilya founded his first company Ciplex, when he was 17. Ciplex is a digital marketing agency that provides web design, application development and marketing services. The company has been in business for over 13 years and is the recipient of multiple awards, including Inc.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. Skype is probably the most famous of them, but there are a lot of other examples including Game Insights, Kaspersky and Parallels in Russia, LogMeIn and Prezi in Hungary and Avast and AVG in the Czech Republic.