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| Feb 12, 2016 | The Impact of Freelancers on the Technology Space | The U.S. unemployment rate may have plunged to 4.9 percent in January, but freelancers still form the backbone of this economy’s recovery from The Great Recession. The technology space has understood this in more ways than one, and is rushi... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | Need Customers? Thumbtack Got $125M to Help Small Business Find Them | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Thumbtack, the rapidly growing online San Francisco-based service that lists for-hire professionals from various industries, has received a $125 million round of late-stage fu... |
| Sep 14, 2015 | 81 Sites To Find Side Gigs To Earn More Money Now | Who doesn't need more money? If you're not up for forex trading, selling an organ on the black market or dabbling in illicit activity, income on the side is easier to find than ever before, thanks to the burgeoning freelance economy and the... |
| Aug 31, 2015 | Some friendly caution for startup employees | Last week, at a seminar I met an executive from fashion e-commerce portal Jabong. She was dressed in a striking outfit that looked straight out of a rampwalk. I dared to ask her if that came with the job. The answer was yes, with a big smil... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | Protecting the rights of the digital workforce in the ‘gig’ economy | Spurred by advances in digital technology, an on-demand workforce has been growing steadily for well over a decade, creating a new “gig” economy. This is an economy in which more and more people either choose to, or are forced to, earn thei... |
| Jul 7, 2015 | What do we care about deeply enough to solve, design or build for? | The fundamental unit of a small business, or startup – and any organisation for that matter – must begin with the individual. For sure, businesses, leaders and government have a clear role in stimulating innovation.
However, the way each of... |
| May 5, 2015 | THE NEWS WRAP: Elance-oDesk relaunches as Upwork | Freelance marketplace Elance-oDesk is relaunching as Upwork more than a year after the merger that saw the oDesk and Elance platforms come together under the one banner.
Chief executive Stephane Kasriel said in a statement the rebrand will ... |
| May 5, 2015 | Elance-oDesk Rebrands As Upwork, Debuts Slack-Like Chat Platform | A new chapter starts today for Elance-oDesk, a platform where 4 million businesses connect with 10 million knowledge worker freelancers to fill contract jobs. More than a year after the two competitors merged to form one freelancer powerhou... |
| Mar 17, 2015 | 99designs partners with Jimdo for website-building venture | Australian design marketplace 99designs is entering the website building space.
The company has partnered with European website design and hosting company Jimdo in order to offer its customers a place where they can source both logos and we... |
| Mar 10, 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... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | 7 useful online tools for your business | As the manager of a small business or an entrepreneur just starting out, you should always be on the lookout for anything that can improve your productivity, time management, organization, and ultimately make day to day tasks easier to mana... |
| Feb 27, 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... |
| Feb 14, 2015 | Five-Year Predictions Every Small Business Must Note | Small businesses which are working towards building enough revenue for expansion and growth have a whole new set of challenges facing them with every passing quarter. Shifts in the global market have indefinite impacts on small businesses a... |
| Jan 18, 2015 | Why the small business retail outlook is positive for 2015 | As we start 2015, it’s worth putting or heads up above the parapet in our slightly challenging Australian business conditions, to look at how the rest of our similar, if larger, peers are seeing the year ahead in retail pan out.
A member of... |
| Jan 16, 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... |
| Dec 31, 2014 | TechJuice: Pakistan’s 25 high achievers under 25 years of age 2014 | The world has become a much different place in the last year, we have seen many success stories sprout out from all corners of the globe. These stories tell us how talented youths from various vicinity of the globe managed to be the face of... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | Elance-oDesk Announces $30M in Funding |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, World's largest online workplace has announced a $30 million over-subscribed round of funding led by Benchmark.
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| Nov 25, 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... |
| Nov 24, 2014 | The Risks and Opportunities in a Startup: Age 2-5 Years | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In my previous article, I discussed the key risks and opportunities that startups face when they’re just starting out. This time, I’d like to go one step further to the second... |
| Nov 7, 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... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | Как запустить свой сайт, не разбираясь в программировании — обсуждение на Quora | Пользователи Quora обсудили вопрос о том, как запустить свой сайт, не зная ничего об HTML, шаблонах, дизайне, пользовательском интерфейсе и имея ограниченный бюджет. ЦП выбрал из дискуссии лучшие ответы.
Самый популярный ответ на этот вопро... |
| Aug 9, 2014 | Why Remote Work Is Booming | Companies are going global with a vengeance – a founder based in Silicon Valley, California; programmers based in Bangalore, India; marketing teams sitting in Madison Avenue, New York; and distribution teams based in Europe are not a pipe d... |
| Jul 30, 2014 | VenturePact connects tech companies with outsourced product development | VenturePact is playing matchmaker.
The two-year-old Center City company, founded by recent Penn grads, relaunched as a marketplace for outsourced product development. Tech companies, from early-stage startups to larger companies (and those ... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | Disrupting Education to Create a Highly Skilled Workforce | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| May 4, 2014 | Pressing The Button | The Mytro Project is almost over. Over the past few months I’ve been writing about my experience crowdfunding and self-publishing a YA fantasy book called Mytro. After running an Indiegogo campaign and coming out with almost $20,000, I’m at... |
| Apr 30, 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... |
| Apr 8, 2014 | SparkLabs Korea Presents Third Demo Day, Launches Hardware Accelerator In Seoul | SparkLabs Korea launched just 18 months ago, but the Seoul-based accelerator already has a strong track record of finding promising startups. Its third Demo Day today featured companies that develop wearable technology, medical devices, and... |
| Mar 31, 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... |
| Mar 6, 2014 | Are data scientists now available for just $30 an hour? | 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!
Tapping the wisdom of a data scientist might not ... |
| Mar 5, 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... |
| Feb 27, 2014 | Smarterer Raises $1.6M to Help Companies Discover Their Skill Gaps | Smarterer is now better helping companies make more informed decisions, with the help of $1.6 million. The Boston-based startup announced Thursday its newfound financing would be used to fuel the development and growth of its new enterprise... |
| Jan 13, 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... |
| Dec 22, 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... |
| Dec 22, 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... |
| Dec 19, 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... |
| Dec 19, 2013 | Elance and oDesk Announce Merger That Would Create Freelancing Giant | December 19, 2013 3 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
In a move that will consolidate much of the freelance economy in a single corporate entity, online freelance work platforms Elance and oDesk announc... |
| Nov 18, 2013 | How to Score an Advisor When Your Startup Has No Money | November 18, 2013 3 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
"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... |
| Nov 11, 2013 | Claim your domain: What is Santa bringing your kids this Christmas? | My three-year-old daughter wants all things princess and in purple. My eight-year-old son wants a computer game or some Star Wars characters. If you have young children, you probably have had similar conversations with six weeks to Christma... |
| Oct 22, 2013 | Blogmutt, A Crowdsourcing Platform, Makes An Equity Offer To Its Bloggers For Hire | The SaaS model is now for blogging, too. A new breed of companies are crowdsourcing writers to do posts for small and large businesses. Blogmutt is a bit different than the other services in this regard. It is now offering equity to its top... |
| Sep 24, 2013 | Elance, SkilledUp & Smarterer Launch New Learning Platform To Let You Learn, Validate & Find Work In One Place | The shift towards career and skills-focused content and models in digital education has begun to gain momentum of late, and last week, it got another boost as Elance, one of the largest online staffing platforms (for freelancers), announced... |
| Sep 24, 2013 | Elance unveils Private Talent Cloud to drive freelance revolution | The most recent federal jobs report may have looked bleak, but there is a large and growing group of people who have a sure place in this economy — freelancers.
Elance debuted its Private Talent Cloud today to help companies hire, manage, a... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | How Elance looks to partners in delivering talent-as-a-service | 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!
SAN FRANCISCO — With freelance employment growing... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | How Elance looks to partners in delivering talent-as-a-service | SAN FRANCISCO — With freelance employment growing faster than more traditional full-time work, freelancers and companies need a place to connect and get work done. Such employment market conditions have accelerated the rise of Mountain View... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | How the cloud is rescuing the $300 billion freelance industry from itself | Rich Pearson is Chief Marketing Officer of Elance.
The way that businesses recruit and manage workers is undergoing a dramatic transformation.
A volatile economy and an increasingly entrepreneurial culture have produced a corporate climate ... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | How the cloud is rescuing the $300 billion freelance industry from itself | 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!
Rich Pearson is Chief Marketing Officer of Elance... |
| Jul 30, 2013 | How to Break Into the Game Industry Part 3: On Writing for Games and the Impossible...ish Dream. | Article content
This is an ongoing blog about game culture, development and a primer for an introduction to the professional gaming world . We’re Boximals Studios – a video game studio in Vancouver, passionate about making games, the indust... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | Dorm Room Fund-Backed Skillbridge Is A Freelance Marketplace For High-End Professional Services | A startup called Skillbridge is trying to create a new kind of marketplace for freelance work – not for the programming and writing jobs that you’d find on a site like Elance, but for strategy, finance, marketing and other professional serv... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | 10 Visual Steps To Self-Publishing Your Book On Amazon | These are your words, this is your story; a tale of pathos and woe, heartbreak and longing, action, violence, sex, death and transformation. Its overarching message will no doubt resonate deeply with the reader.
Except, to have readers, you... |
| May 22, 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... |
| Feb 11, 2013 | Open Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support | VideoLAN’s VLC media player is installed on the PCs of millions of Internet users.
It’s widely regarded as the best tool to play videos and audio in just about any format found anywhere on the web. When something can’t be played, VLC almost... |
| Feb 1, 2013 | The Elance for publishing: Writer.ly offers marketplace for authors needing help | It’s not easy for an author to put out a commercially successful product. Not only does he or she have to craft a story, but there’s so much more: editing, designing, marketing, etc.
To make life a little easier for authors, a new Seattle-b... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | Top 7 Most In-Demand Tech Skills For 2013 | If you promised yourself you were going to beef up your tech skills in 2013, now is the time to get moving.
But where to start? With so many languages, platforms, protocols and other technologies, it’s hard to know what’s worth spending you... |
| Aug 15, 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... |
| Aug 13, 2012 | Hey Kid, Here's How To Get A Job | Apprentice Electrician (Photo credit: Chris Hunkeler) |
| Aug 8, 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,... |
| Aug 8, 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... |
| May 14, 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... |
| Mar 22, 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... |
| Jan 25, 2012 | Elance Secures $16M in Expansion Capital | Elance, a Mountain View, California and Oslo, Norway-based Internet platform for online employment, has secured $16m in expansion capital.
The round was led by the Stripes Group with participation from existing investors New Enterprise Asso... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Elance Secures $16M Expansion Capital |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Internet platform used by businesses to gain instant access to 1 million independent workers online, has secured $16M in expansion capital led by the Stripes Group with existing investors, New Enterprise Associates and ... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Online Job Marketplace Elance Raises $16M From Kleiner Perkins, NEA And The Stripes Group | Online job marketplace Elance has raised $16 million in new capital led by the Stripes Group with existing investors, New Enterprise Associates and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers participating.
Elance is a service that allows for comp... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Freelance marketplace Elance secures $16M in funding | 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, a freelance marketplace that connects cli... |
| Jan 9, 2012 | Elance To Give $1 Million To Startup America Partnership | Online job marketplace Elance has just announced it will give $1 million to The Startup America Partnership, the national campaign that aims to accelerate entrepreneurship, which is chaired by Steve Case, co-founder of AOL (disclosure: Tech... |
| Jan 4, 2012 | Coffee & Power, From Linden Labs Founder, Puts A Jolt of Creativity Into Crowdsourcing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After building a vast virtual world with a complex internal economy sustained by the labor of more than a million active users, what do you do for an encore?
For Philip Roseda... |
| Dec 29, 2011 | Meet 8 families who are making kid-friendly apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Families are launching their own apps. With ideas that spark in living room labs, moms and dads are capturing great ideas and turning t... |
| Dec 14, 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) ... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | How infographics jumped the shark | 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!
We’ve tumbled headlong into the era of infographi... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | How infographics jumped the shark | We’ve tumbled headlong into the era of infographics.
Visual presentations of data are everywhere, popping up on every type of online publication (even VentureBeat). There are so many infographics on the Internet that some bloggers are lashi... |
| Nov 9, 2011 | Mobile Component Marketplace Verious Exits Beta, Partners With Elance | Verious, the one-stop shop for mobile app components and TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 finalist, is today emerging from its beta period with a bang. It’s announcing a partnership with online employment platform Elance, which will bring over 25,00... |
| Nov 5, 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... |
| Nov 3, 2011 | UK Companies Embracing Online Freelancers on Elance | 55% increase in online hiring on Elance by British firms in the last year
UK is the eighth largest freelance economy in the world on Elance
London businesses hire the most Elance contractors in the UK, followed by Birmingham, Reading and Ed... |
| Nov 2, 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... |
| Nov 2, 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... |
| Oct 27, 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... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Elance Establishes European Headquarters to Meet Growing Demand | Online employment platform that helps global businesses and contractors work together takes steps to further support over 500,000 contractors and 179,000 clients around the world
OSLO - 13th October 2011 - Elance, the leading global platfor... |
| Sep 24, 2011 | How online freelancing is changing the bootstrap ethos | 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!
Fire extinguisher inspector David Kneer bought an... |
| Sep 24, 2011 | How online freelancing is changing the bootstrap ethos | Fire extinguisher inspector David Kneer bought an iPad so he could generate paperless inspections in the field. Then he hit a snag: The PDF inspection reports were unnecessarily lengthy and Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, prevented hi... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | NuPathe looks for $30 mil, DreamIt NYC graduates 15 | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | King of Code Finalist: David Magnotti is a cross-platform prodigy | The King of Code contest is sponsored by Windows Phone and is open to developers on any mobile platform.
Just 18 years old and fresh out of high school, David Magnotti is already making a name for himself as a mobile developer. The founder ... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | King of Code Finalist: David Magnotti is a cross-platform prodigy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The King of Code contest is sponsored by Windows Phone and is open to developers on any mobile platform.
Just 18 years old and fresh ou... |
| Jul 20, 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... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | Seven Ways Solopreneurs Can Grow a Home Business | April 6, 2011 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Home-based businesses with a sole owner can only grow so much, right? Wrong.
With a little creativity you can keep expanding your home business, without h... |
| Mar 29, 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... |
| Feb 15, 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... |
| Jan 13, 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... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Should you be outsourcing parts of your start-up? | Outsourcing some of the workload is no longer just the preserve of large multinationals. Even fledgling start-ups can benefit from outsourcing aspects of their business to a third party.
Not everyone starting out in business can afford to h... |
| Sep 3, 2010 | Java – It’s not Dead, Folks – It’s Doing Just Fine | Java gets a bad rap. It’s considered old-school. People say that young developers prefer Ruby on Rails and other Web-based hot stuff. True – but these aren’t bad times for Java at all.
James Governor of RedMonk wrote a post that provides se... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | Weekly Poll: What’s in Store for Cloud-Related IT Jobs? | There’s a lot of talk about the ways in which cloud computing will impact the IT job market – changing demands for the numbers and the skills of employees.
As James Urquhart notes in an article in CNET today, there have been a number of int... |
| Jul 21, 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... |
| May 6, 2010 | Six Startups Blast Off From The Web 2.0 Launchpad | Every year at Web 2.0 Expo, a handful of promising startups are invited on stage to give quick, five-minute pitches to an audience of conference attendees and a panel of judges (you can see our past coverage on these events here and here). ... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | Elance report: Freelance is the new full-time | While the national unemployment rate hovers at 10 percent, one segment of the workforce may be in higher demand than ever. Elance, a web-based network for freelance internet workers released a company report today showing a 40 percent incre... |
| Apr 1, 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... |
| Mar 25, 2010 | Voice Messaging Startup Bubble Motion Nabs Former Yelp And Elance Exec As Marketing Chief | Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion has added a seasoned marketing exec Brad Porteus to its team. Porteus will take on the role of chief marketing officer for the voice blogging startup.
Most recently, Porteus was CMO for E... |
| Mar 23, 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... |
| Feb 16, 2010 | Build Business Cases, Not Business Plans | In the ancient times before the internet, a business plan was what you wrote to appease the Gods of private equity and venture capital. It was a thick document, full of scientific analysis, market data and of course, a J-curve shaped projec... |
| Feb 2, 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... |
| Dec 11, 2009 | Elance competition coming to a close | Top 10 finalists announced for "New Way to Work" competition. Who will win the $10,000 prize?
Play back the embedded video and you'll get a glimpse into the Vator.tv working environment. Not your typical office huh? This is our ne... |
| Oct 16, 2009 | Win free healthcare for your startup | Elance hosting a competition for a year worth of health insurance for your startup or $10,000 cash
The notion of working in an office cube from nine-to-five seems like such a thing of the past, especially if you're a startup. Why pay for of... |
| Oct 8, 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... |