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

The Next Web

On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In Most of clients are “startups, small businesses, and solo entrepreneurs who are building their business on or around oDesk,” Cooper said.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

Giza was just a one-day side trip on my main mission: Visiting a tech startup tucked away in Alexandria, a bustling seaside metropolis of 5 million. Building a startup is one of the riskiest endeavors to begin with, so predictability is key, even in the face of known adversity. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Snowflakes in the Valley: What Happens When 40 Nordic Entrepreneurs Visit Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. Together with 40 Nordic entrepreneurs , we decided to take a trip to the startup mecca, looking for opportunities and lessons to learn. Startups are keen on business development and will seek partnerships. Down to Earth.

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The 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups in 2016

VC Cafe

Yesterday was Israel’s 68th Independence Day, and to mark the occasion, Calcalist , a leading business publication in Israel, ranked the 50 most promising private Israeli startups. Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). 150M each).

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

This post follows directly on Steve’s earlier excellent post, Why Companies are not Startups. In this post, I want to share some new thoughts that build on Steve’s post, and connect them to Lean Startup methods. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

They’re not the only startup in this fight. An entire wave of new startups and scaleups are providing satellite imagery and analysis, satellite communications, and unmanned aerial vehicles supporting the struggle. Other startups are providing portable cell towers – “backpackable” and fixed. In the U.S.,

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