| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.06.2015 | The hybrid workforce: Why combining onsite, remote, and freelance resources is becoming the new normal | This sponsored post is produced by Upwork, formerly Elance-oDesk.
Many white-collar workers have dreamt of a corner office on the top floor with an assistant welcoming guests and serving coffee during meetings. If you’re one of these dreame... |
| 13.05.2015 | A business cloud toolkit: What are the essentials for businesses operating in the cloud? | A few weeks ago I did a presentation for small business on how to prepare your business for the future.
During the presentation we looked at the big trends that will affect business over the next decade with a focus on some of the demograph... |
| 12.05.2015 | Ben Nowlan – co-founder of Sherpa | website twitter facebook
Ben is an energetic, driven and methodical sales and marketing professional. A proven leader with entrepreneurial talent and a track record for getting results, Ben’s experience ranges from management consulting to ... |
| 22.03.2015 | From 2 to 34: Hiring a Remote Team for an Online Startup | Without a doubt, one of the most difficult tasks when expanding an online business is the hiring of excellent programmers. When we began in 2008 we were just 2 co-founding engineers who took on the work of the first prototypes; today, 7 yea... |
| 16.03.2015 | Работа в удаленной команде: Как подобрать подходящего сотрудника Статьи редакции | Сооснователь сервиса для поиска исполнителей Work-zilla Пётр Щекочихин написал для ЦП колонку о том, в чем преимущества удаленной команды, как определить, подходит ли кандидат для удаленной работы, и почему на собеседовании важно отсеять ка... |
| 11.03.2015 | Empower Pakistan aims to self-employ individuals & women of Pakistan | Are you a person trying to keep up with ever increasing expenses. Maybe you are a student or a stay-at-home mom or a working officer with a meager salary or someone trying to find a job. We all need money for our academics, for supporting o... |
| 10.03.2015 | How Much Should You Pay Your Engineers? (Infographic) | by Cheyenne Richards
With the world’s ever-expanding appetite for great engineering talent, hiring is becoming a larger and larger challenge for tech companies. Never has it been more critical to know just how much you should pay that promi... |
| 27.02.2015 | Shammika Munugoda – founder of Boomeringo | Shammika Munugoda, founder of Boomeringo, is a software engineer who has over a decade of experience in the software, web and mobile app industry.
In 2005 Shammika arrived in Melbourne as an international student from Sri Lanka. Being an in... |
| 16.01.2015 | Optimize your Own ROI -- Compass Data Shows Engineers How to Maximize their Salaries. | -- By Anisha Nanwani
What a great time to be an engineer. Tech is booming in a big way and anyone who can code is in very high demand. With a plethora of options, from big companies to startups, from freelance to full-time, front-end to bac... |
| 21.12.2014 | Stellar's Joyce Kim Talks the Launch, the Fork and the Future | stellarlogofeat
Backed by mainstream payments technology startup Stripe, decentralized payment network Stellar provides a vision for how digital currency could solve real problems for people with restricted financial access.
It may be no wo... |
| 20.12.2014 | Online Tools that Help You Start a Business without Breaking the Bank | Many people dream of starting their own business, but they fear they don’t have enough resources or that their idea is not good enough to ensure a company’s success. While you remain in charge of the idea behind the business, you should kno... |
| 09.12.2014 | A Simple Framework for Remote Project Management | As your business scales, projects do the same, growing in complexity faster than even the many-headed mythological Hydra could handle. As Stephane Kasriel points out in his eBook Hire Fast & Build Things, efficient scaling can only occu... |
| 25.11.2014 | Elance-oDesk Raises $30M in Funding | Elance–oDesk, a Mountain View, Calif.-based operator of an online workplace, raised $30m in funding.
The round was led by Benchmark, with participation from existing shareholders T. Rowe Price, FirstMark, Sigma West, NEA and the Stripes Gro... |
| 22.11.2014 | Marketplaces Are Eating Firms | Josh Breinlinger Contributor
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Josh is a Managing Director at Jackson Square Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with $245 million under management, where he focuses his investments in early stage marketplaces.
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| 07.11.2014 | 5 Ways to Find More Time to Build Your Business | November 7, 2014 5 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Today, starting a business is easier than ever before. Thanks to technology, you don’t need tons of capital, a massive team or multiple degrees to cr... |
| 04.10.2014 | Why Reddit's new 'no remote worker' policy is upsetting | As one of the biggest, most active communities on the Internet, every single move Reddit makes gets scrutinized, analyzed, and philosophized. If Reddit sneezes, discussion will be had. And until now, that didn’t mean much from a company sta... |
| 04.10.2014 | Why Reddit's new 'no remote worker' policy is upsetting | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As one of the biggest, most active communities on... |
| 29.09.2014 | Hiring Freelance Design Help for Your Startup: Some Advice | Fishing out for freelance graphic designers is common in startups, especially early-stage ones. Like all outsourced work, it can be challenging to get reasonable results within the limited budget you have been given. However, if you choose ... |
| 30.08.2014 | Amazon Vs. Hachette: Fewer Middlemen Equals A Better World | Josh Breinlinger Contributor
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| 24.07.2014 | Blogging your way to a Series A | Content built up over time will eventually equal leads
When I founded BlazeMeter, I decided to postpone venture funding until I had determined my initial product and market fit. I was stringent when thinking about what that meant: in the en... |
| 23.07.2014 | Duolingo Launches Its Certification Program To Take On TOEFL | Duolingo, the free language learning service, today announced the launch of Test Center, its digital language certification program. The company is launching this service with an English Proficiency Exam that will rate your language skills ... |
| 23.07.2014 | Duolingo Wants To Make It Easier For People To Get Jobs And An Education | Duolingo, a popular online language education service, is making it easier for students and job-seekers to receive English language certification with the introduction of its new app, Test Center.
Language certification is necessary for som... |
| 26.06.2014 | Disrupting Education to Create a Highly Skilled Workforce | By LAURA LOREK
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| 13.06.2014 | Building Code To Break Poverty In Bangladesh | Teaching people in the third world how to code seems to be a growing trend that may just help to break the world-wide poverty cycle. Danish-based microfinancing operation CodersTrust is starting to do just that with a test group of 100 Bang... |
| 30.04.2014 | Elance-oDesk Launches In Australia To Compete With Freelancer.com | Elance–oDesklaunched today in Australia with a new country manager and two city managers based in Melbourne and Sydney. The company also said it plans to hire more city managers to oversee its operations in Perth, Adelaide, and Brisbane.
El... |
| 20.04.2014 | Supahands Offers Multilingual Virtual Assistants For Clients In Asia | Southeast Asia is the second-largest outsourcing destination in the world, but a new company called Supahands wants to help locals by bringing virtual assistants to the region. Based in Malaysia and Singapore, the startup plans to expand to... |
| 31.03.2014 | Harvard-Backed Experfy Wants To Create A McKinsey In The Cloud For Big Data Talent | There is a scramble to find the right big data talent, especially for short-term data projects currently being outsourced to big consulting companies such as Accenture, Deloitte apart from several niche suppliers. According to this McKinsey... |
| 05.03.2014 | Coming Out Of Stealth, MyCrowd Aims To Create World’s Biggest Marketplace For Freelance Projects | MyCrowd, a startup that helps companies find freelance talent for specific tasks through Google Docs, PowerPoint and other software applications, is raising $500,000 in a seed round from unnamed angel investors to add more connectors includ... |
| 04.03.2014 | Influx Raises $250,000 To Help Growing Startups Handle Customer Support Requests | For startups just beginning to gain traction, the joy (and relief) of watching user numbers grow can vanish as soon as support requests start coming in. If customers don’t get their queries answered quickly, it can negatively impact a fledg... |
| 19.02.2014 | Bootstrapping Through The Talent Drought | Building a technology startup in Nigeria presents many challenges. Funding is the main problem that is mentioned by many. However, the more fundamental issues of talent and innovative thinking are more pressing to me.
Yes we need money to e... |
| 13.01.2014 | Five technologies that will change business in 2014 | Five technologies that will change business in 2014
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Santander's Breakthrough Technology Editor Marcus Austin reveals the most interesting and disruptive technology to watch out for in 2014...
“The ability to create apps specifica... |
| 22.12.2013 | How Elance’s merger with oDesk will impact the freelance space | Elance and oDesk, the two largest freelance labor marketplaces on the planet, announced a merger this week. The two have been competing in the freelance space for over a decade and decided to leverage their respective resources to “create f... |
| 22.12.2013 | How Elance’s merger with oDesk will impact the freelance space | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Elance and oDesk, the two largest freelance labor... |
| 22.12.2013 | Everything You Wanted To Know About The Giant Elance, oDesk Merger & Ensuing Backlash (But Were Afraid To Ask) | Earlier this year, Seamless and Grubhub announced that their companies would be joining forces in a blockbuster merger. Already two of the biggest names in online food-ordering, the prospect of a combined “Grubless” sent ripples through the... |
| 19.12.2013 | Elance and oDesk Merge | Mountain View, California-based Elance and Redwood City, CA-based oDesk, two marketplaces for online work, signed an agreement to merge with each other.
Both companies operates platform for online work, which connect businesses with freelan... |
| 18.12.2013 | ODesk and Elance combine their freelance marketplaces | New company will have eight million freelancers, and two million businesses, in over 180 countries
As someone who studied film in college, and tried to get work in that field once I graduated, I know how difficult freelancing can be.
It is ... |
| 19.11.2013 | Funding Daily: Clouds, smart locks, & Tyra Banks ya’ll | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Good news everyone! We’ve just gathered up all th... |
| 19.11.2013 | Freelancer marketplace ODesk files executive employee options of $2.65M | Freelancer marketplace ODesk is giving out $2.65 million to it executives as part of its 2013 executive employee option grants, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
ODesk connects companies who have quick proje... |
| 19.11.2013 | Funding Daily: Clouds, smart locks, & Tyra Banks ya’ll | Good news everyone! We’ve just gathered up all the funding news for the day and rolled it up into our now legendary* Funding Daily column.
Check out all the new investments below.
Aria Systems snags $40M for cloud-based billing
Aria Systems... |
| 18.11.2013 | How to Score an Advisor When Your Startup Has No Money | November 18, 2013 3 min read
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"If only I had an investor who would come on-board and throw in some money, I'd be able to do A, B, C and D. Then we'd really be off to the rac... |
| 11.11.2013 | Freelance Marketplace DesignCrowd Raises $3M To Fuel Its International Growth | DesignCrowd, a crowdsourcing marketplace for freelance designers, has raised $3 million in new funding from investors led by Starfish Ventures. This brings the Sydney, Australia based company’s total raised to date to $6.3 million. DesignCr... |
| 07.10.2013 | oDesk Launches Startup Accelerator Partnership Program | Redwood City, CA-based online workplace oDesk announced the launch of a new startup accelerator partnership program called oDesk Upstarts.
The program will help startups in 20+ partner accelerator programs delegate tasks in tech hubs, inclu... |
| 03.09.2013 | 5 crowdsourcing golden rules | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Moshe Greenshpan is founder of Skakash, a face re... |
| 03.09.2013 | 5 crowdsourcing golden rules | Moshe Greenshpan is founder of Skakash, a face recognition based app.
So you’ve decided you are going to turn your great idea into a product, but you’re still facing a major problem — your budget.
Facing the “low budget problem” myself has ... |
| 19.06.2013 | It's not what you know, but what you can do | To the class of 2013: Understand the job market realities
As the latest crop of college graduates frame their diplomas and prepare to make their mark on the world, the very value of their diploma is being called into question. With student ... |
| 22.05.2013 | Airtasker Wants To Be oDesk Of Southeast Asia | Australian startup, Airtasker, is keen to expand out of its home country into Southeast Asia, which it says hasn’t been touched by large competitors yet.
The year-old startup provides job matching for freelancers and employers, similar to w... |
| 26.03.2013 | Funding daily: Scattered investments in clean-tech and consumer tech | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s that time of year in Silicon Valley: launche... |
| 26.03.2013 | Funding daily: Scattered investments in clean-tech and consumer tech | It’s that time of year in Silicon Valley: launches, demo days, and a consistent stream of startups getting funded.
This week, our reporters covered the coming out party for Y Combinator’s startups, and the Games Developer Conference in San ... |
| 26.03.2013 | Rev raises $4.5M for freelance marketplace from founders of similar service | Rev.com, a online marketplace to find freelancer work, launched today with $4.5 million in a 2012 funding round from oDesk board member Venky Ganesan and others.
The company was founded by early employees at oDesk, a similar workforce of co... |
| 06.03.2013 | Yahoo and Best Buy are wrong: Great work can happen from anywhere | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
By Jaleh Bisharat, VP of Marketing, oDesk (the world’s largest online workplace)
Just one week after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer issued her... |
| 06.03.2013 | Yahoo and Best Buy are wrong: Great work can happen from anywhere | By Jaleh Bisharat, VP of Marketing, oDesk (the world’s largest online workplace)
Just one week after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer issued her ‘work-in-the-office-only’ policy, Best Buy is dominating a new wave of headlines by following in her foo... |
| 19.12.2012 | The top 4 career trends for 2013 | This guest post was written by oDesk CEO Gary Swart.
Next year we may not be commuting to work in flying cars yet, but it won’t really matter—many of us won’t be commuting to work at all. It’s no secret that telecommuting, flexible work arr... |
| 19.12.2012 | The top 4 career trends for 2013 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This guest post was written by oDesk CEO Gary Swa... |
| 07.11.2012 | Glen Christie: Founder of Beetlebox | Glen’s previous incarnation was as a professional in the finance industry where he worked in Sydney, New York, London, and Hong Kong before returning to Sydney to raise a family, and set out on a new venture starting a business. It was in H... |
| 15.08.2012 | How to Crowdsource Without Being a Jerk – Or an Idiot | In the six years since Jeff Howe coined the term ‘crowdsourcing’ in Wired Magazine, the phenomenon has grown into several distinct, maturing industries that give businesses and workers almost limitless flexibility. But crowdsourcing also si... |
| 13.08.2012 | Hey Kid, Here's How To Get A Job | Apprentice Electrician (Photo credit: Chris Hunkeler) |
| 08.08.2012 | World-record crowdsourcing results for TimesSquare.com logo contest? [updated] | What if you crowdsourced your logo design and everyone came?
That’s almost what happened to TimesSquare.com, a New York publication that opened a logo contest on DesignCrowd, an online marketplace for design jobs. The company offered a $10,... |
| 08.08.2012 | World-record crowdsourcing results for TimesSquare.com logo contest? [updated] | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
What if you crowdsourced your logo design and eve... |
| 01.08.2012 | DCastalia: Creativity & innovation in the field of digital technology | Name: DCastalia
DCastalia, stands for Castalia Digital, inspires spontaneous flow of creative idea & innovation in the field of digital technology.
The word “Castalia” is famous as the name of a spring of creative inspirations in Gree... |
| 14.07.2012 | What’s the best way to manage a team of remote software engineers? | Stack Exchange reader comments 23 with 18 posters participating
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| 14.05.2012 | How and Why Your Startup Should Go Virtual | Working virtually sounds like heaven to many startups. After all, not having a central office staffed with employees saves money on rent, utilities, parking, etc., freeing you to invest in research, development or marketing.
On the other ha... |
| 22.03.2012 | Contractor-hiring service oDesk raises $15M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Outsourcing service oDesk, which brokers jobs bet... |
| 22.03.2012 | oDesk Receives $15M in Series D Funding | Redwood City, CA-based online workplace oDesk has received $15m in Series D funding.
The round was led by T. Rowe Price Associates, with participation from Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners.
In addition to the... |
| 22.03.2012 | Online Work Platform oDesk Raises $15M From T. Rowe Price, Benchmark | Online work platform oDesk has raised $15 million in Series D funding from T. Rowe Price Associates with participation from Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. This brings oDesk’s total funding to $45 million.
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| 22.03.2012 | oDesk Secures $15M Series D |
REDWOOD CITY, CA, oDesk, the world's largest and fastest-growing online workplace, announced that it has received $15 million in Series D funding. T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. led the round.
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| 22.03.2012 | T. Rowe Price invests $15M in oDesk | CEO Gary Swart says, 'We're big enough to be a publicly-traded company'
Redwood City, Calif.-based oDesk, an online workplace, announced Thursday that it's secured a $15 million Series D round of funding from T. Rowe Price, with participati... |
| 04.03.2012 | Work 3.0: How The Employment Model Needs to Change | Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Gary Swart, the CEO of oDesk, the fast-growing online workplace where eContractors are currently earning more than $300 million a year.
With the economy still struggling to recover, key indicato... |
| 14.12.2011 | GroupTalent’s Hiring Marketplace Now Automatically Matches People With Jobs | Talent drain? That’s what they’re saying. The explosion of early stage startups has made it harder for companies to find the best engineers and designers because everyone’s trying to do their own startup. GroupTalent (a startup, of course) ... |
| 08.12.2011 | oDesk Names Former OpenTable CEO And CitySearch Founder Thomas Layton As Executive Chairman | Online work platform oDesk is announcing that Thomas Layton is joining the company as Executive Chairman. In this role, Layton will work alongside current CEO Gary Swart in an active operating role. oDesk offers a “marketplace for talent” t... |
| 08.12.2011 | ODesk hires OpenTable, CitySearch exec Thomas Layton | After doubling revenue for five years straight, oDesk beefs up upper ranks
ODesk is on a roll. The eight-year-old company that helps companies recruit and manage workers announced Thursday morning that it's hired board member Thomas Layton ... |
| 21.11.2011 | Cool private companies: Who will IPO in 2012 and 2013? | As a software securities analyst, Richard Davis spends 200 days a year on the road visiting software companies. He goes to public companies such as Oracle and Salesforce.com, but he also visits up-and-coming software companies he thinks wil... |
| 18.11.2011 | Here In Silicon Valley, Are We Killing Jobs And Making The Rich Richer? | Editor’s note: Adam Rodnitzky is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Favo.rs. Rodnitzky is based in San Francisco and you can follow him on twitter @rodtwitzky.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement keeps growing, many of the issues raised... |
| 09.11.2011 | oDesk: Online Work Market Will Grow To $1 Billion By 2012 | Online work platform oDesk is reporting today that its contractors earned a record $22.3 million through the oDesk platform in October. This represents 90% growth from 2010. oDesk offers a “marketplace for talent” that makes it easy for com... |
| 05.11.2011 | The Moonlight Hustle | It’s unbelievably hard to find your rung on the career ladder now. At least 9.1% of us can’t even grab a hold, and vastly more of us, maybe even 71%, are not where we want to be with our work.
The recession is one major contributor to job w... |
| 02.11.2011 | Humanoid puts human brainpower to work in the cloud | Humanoid is today launching the world’s first human brain-powered API for developers and programmers “that actually works.”
With Humanoid developers can harness the strength of crowd-sourcing and get accurate results, not currently availabl... |
| 02.11.2011 | Humanoid puts human brainpower to work in the cloud | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Humanoid is today launching the world’s first hum... |
| 27.10.2011 | Social to-do list Astrid launches on the iPhone | Google Ventures, AngelPad-backed startup expands distribution to help you tackle your to-do list
San Francisco-based Astrid, which was incubated at AngelPad, announced Thursday that it's bringing its social to-do list application to the iPh... |
| 20.07.2011 | Socialance launches free competitor to the Elance brigade – Get an invite here | New startup Socialance is joining the cavalcade of sites that ‘connect freelancers and employers’ alongside oDesk, Elance, or Freelancer. But the difference, says 23 year old founder Guillermo Vigil, is that this is is more like a hybrid of... |
| 16.07.2011 | A Tale Of Two Countries: The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Jon Bischke is a founder of RG Labs and an advisor to Altius Education, Fatminds and Udemy. You can follow him @jonbischke.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
-Charles Dickens from A Tale o... |
| 01.04.2011 | April Fools 2011: The Big List | Yes, folks, that’s right. That special, special time of year is upon us. It’s April Fools 2011! We take April Fools pretty seriously around here, so we’ll be constantly updating this post with the best April Fools jokes and pranks the World... |
| 29.03.2011 | Outsource offshore | Finding worthy topics to discuss was the highest priority when I started the Churchill Club five years ago, so I sought advice from a number of quite senior people on what they thought were issues that mattered to the technology start-up co... |
| 21.02.2011 | Guest Post: How Online Work Can Save America | On a dusty summer day in July 2009, I taught a young, impoverished refugee in Dadaab, Kenya, to earn money online.
Paul Parach (pictured left, video below) had fled South Sudan at age seven and lived in the camp for fifteen years, suffering... |
| 15.02.2011 | ODesk Charts the Future of Distributed Work | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Consider these five trends, and then ask yourself what kind of Internet business you would create to exploit them.
1. Persistent economic uncertainty, leaving employers unwill... |
| 13.01.2011 | Could your start-up live on the cloud? | Technology is often touted as a great leveller of industries. Something that enables small businesses to compete at the same level as the big boys.
Cloud computing (applications accessed over the web), the National Broadband Network or inte... |
| 23.12.2010 | Top Online Jobs for 2010 and Predictions for the Year Ahead | oDesk is a marketplace for online work teams. Each month, it publishes a report with information the service collects from its own community of employers and job prospectors.
For its year-end report, oDesk looked at prior data from its own ... |
| 14.10.2010 | A Peek Inside the Story Pipeline at Xconomy San Francisco | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Journalists are usually pretty secretive about the stories they’re planning to write. The fear is that if we give away what we’re working on, some other outlet will jump on th... |
| 07.09.2010 | Online Workers Doing Fine, ODesk Passes One Million Hours A Month | While full-time tech jobs might not be making a roaring comeback, freelance and part-time work seems to be picking up the slack. One data point just came out today illustrating the shift to freelance and online work. Online outsourcer oDesk... |
| 09.08.2010 | Failing fast: Google Wave’s real business lesson | A key philosophy underlying much of Silicon Valley’s successful companies is the “fail fast” concept – where a business releases a rough version of a new idea and asks the world what it thinks. Should people like the idea, it gets developed... |
| 21.07.2010 | DoNanza brings its freelance job listings to publishers | There are a number of sites trying to connect employers and freelancers, including Elance and oDesk. A newer company, DoNanza, aims to become the most comprehensive site for these listings, and today announced that it wants to distribute th... |
| 25.06.2010 | Elon Musk and Jason Calacanis to speak at the Founder Showcase, Aug. 3 in Silicon Valley | The Founder Showcase, by TheFunded.com, is a quarterly startup pitch and networking event that brings together over 275 investors, founders, and members of the press to hear talks from leading CEOs, and pitches from 10 hot technology start-... |
| 01.06.2010 | Can CrowdFlower become a Thunder Lizard? | Super angel Mike Maples is our guest host analyzing the labor crowdsourcing startup
For many years, companies have looked overseas for "cheap" labor. Today, that labor can be next door, or anywhere in the country or around the wor... |
| 13.05.2010 | The lazy CEO’s 10-step guide to crowdsourcing every business task | Lukas Biewald (pictured left) is cofounder and chief executive of CrowdFlower, a startup that helps businesses crowdsource small tasks. Vaughn Hester (pictured below) is an account manager/analyst at CrowdFlower.
Whether you are starting a ... |
| 01.04.2010 | Startup Strategy Roundtable: Beyond Validating Your Ideas | At this morning’s roundtable I worked with five new entrepreneurs who came to the roundtable very well-prepared. They had already done a good deal of validation of their businesses and this led to a richer discussion about each business. An... |
| 23.03.2010 | DEMO: Solvate makes it easy for companies to connect with consultants | Solvate is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
New York-based Solvate initially start... |
| 02.02.2010 | Time & materials versus fixed price billing | Just before Christmas I had one of my coffee/mentoring sessions with a vibrant young Victorian entrepreneur and an interesting question came up around how she should invoice her services.
Although not an expert in the area of pricing models... |
| 26.10.2009 | oDesk's oConomy Hits $100 Million | Startup oDesk received rave reviews at this years TechCrunch50 conference thanks to its innovative workplace platform. The startup was voted as demopit winner with the launch of a new iPhone application that allows project administrators to... |
| 08.10.2009 | Solvate raises $2.3M to help you hire remote office assistants | A lot of us are in a constant battle with busy work, where random administrative tasks end up consuming as much time as the stuff you care about. But not everyone can afford to hire an assistant. Now a startup called Solvate wants to connec... |
| 08.10.2009 | Solvate raises $2.3M to help you hire remote office assistants | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A lot of us are in a constant battle with busy wo... |
| 02.10.2009 | Small Business Software and Tools | Starting a business is always difficult, and trying to start one in the middle of an economic crisis be even harder. To add to the problem, many small businesses are unaware of the internet’s power when it comes to free business advice. So ... |
| 29.09.2009 | With oDesk's iPhone App, Bosses Can Now Monitor Workers From The Beach | Startup oDesk was voted as a TechCrunch50’s demopit winner thanks to the launch of a new iPhone application that allows project administrators to monitor the work stream of their team members while they’re on the go. Today, oDesk’s free app... |