Outsourcing: Fabio Rosati, CEO of Elance (Part 5)

SM: And you have the provisions on your system to allow for both. FR: To allow for both, yes. In fact, you can, as a business, submit a proposal as a company or you can submit candidates. You can choose either one, and then when you staff a project, every time you win a job,

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Dec. 22: 109th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to pitch their businesses or attend the 109th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, December 22, 2011, starting at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here. All are welcome!

Web 3.0 and the Argentine Tango: Content

Content, of course, because the tango is a dance form, is abundant on the Web. Just look at YouTube and you will find many video clips. There are lots of blogs written by aficionados from various parts of the world, but my general observation is that tango content on the Web is terribly disorganized, with

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Building a Virtual World from Berlin: Smeet CEO Sebastian Funke (Part 2)

Sramana: How long did it take you to realize that what you had set out to do was not going to happen? Sebastian Funke: Way too long. We spent a lot of time trying to optimize the product by adding features and more capabilities. We never really looked at what the users wanted. We never

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108th Roundtable Recap: December 15 – Web 3.0 And Social Dancing; Romania Emerging

At today’s roundtable, we had a 30-minute segment on Web 3.0 and Social Dancing. We basically took the Web 3.0 framework – Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS) – and did a blue sky exercise on how to create a comprehensive user experience for social dancers. We also explored business models that not

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Outsourcing: Fabio Rosati, CEO of Elance (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That’s what I do, always. I don’t even bother too much with the interview. I give them a trial project and see how they feel about it. Fabio Rosati: Some people like to interview because they get to understand, for example, in customer support, if the communication is very good. Communication is really

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108th Roundtable Recording On December 15

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