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Your Business Failed, What’s Next?

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Without understanding exactly why you failed, you can’t use that failure to inform future decisions. For example, Elance-oDesk VP Matt Cooper learned from his first failed venture that he had a tendency to move too quickly with business ideas.

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Online Talent Marketplaces Continue Rapid Expansion

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There are several interesting new data points on the increasing use of online talent marketplaces like Elance-oDesk, Freelancer.com, etc. work reports from Elance-oDesk, which recently merged. The chart below, from the Elance-oDesk reports, highlights the relative strong growth on online job listings.

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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

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You can advertise for freelance help on sites such as Guru.com or Elance-oDesk.com. What about the confidentiality of your business information? You uncover outsourcing talent the same way you find employees: by networking in person or online, asking for recommendations and interviewing carefully.

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The Growing Role of Technology Based Talent Intermediaries

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.  Key quote: Like the trend of enterprises toward more flexible workforces and the trend of many workers toward professional independence, information technology is viewed as the other driving trend — the one that actually enables the flexible, independent work arrangements of the future. 

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The Rise of Micro Multinationals

Small Business Labs

  Upwork (formerly known as Elance-oDesk)  is featured in the report and it certainly is focusing on the creation of micro multinationals. It's the source we turn to for information on small businesses going global. .  If these sites even come close to creating $2.7

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Improving the Job Market With Big Data

Small Business Labs

Historically only on the demand side of the labor market has rich information been easily available. " This is changing as sites like LinkedIn, oDesk, eLance and others provide job seekers the ability to create profiles that are widely and easily accessible.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

Small Business Labs

 2013 will see the showrooming trend gain even more traction and expand beyond price with smart phone and data-powered customers and competitors getting ever-greater, real-time access to information on small business products, services and business performance.    Health Care  10.  

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