
Demand For 3D Printing Skills Is Accelerating Globally
35% of all ads posted for engineering jobs in the last 30 days prioritize 3D printing and additive manufacturing as the most sought-after skill. Wanted Analytics’ latest analysis of the 3D printing and additive manufacturing job market found that IT and management expertise were the second most common skill sets mentioned in ads seeking to […]
As The Year Winds Down: Get Some Rest. Or You’ll End Up Washing Out in SaaS in Year 5.
If you squint, and look carefully, in a lot of the deals you see on TechCrunch, Techmeme, Pando Daily, or whatever you read, you’ll see a pattern in a good chunk of them. You’ll see that Co. X or Y sells to BigCo … around Year 5. Or that a New CEO is brought in […]

The Human Cloud
I spent the past week in the clouds attending Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Salesforce likes to categorize its products into different "clouds", like sales cloud (sales force automation), service cloud (customer service system), data cloud (crowdsourced contact data), etc. In fact…

oDesk and the inadvertent freelancer
oDesk’s Brian Goler called to discuss the Inadvertent Freelancer concept. The discussion covered much more than oDesk’s abilities to help the modern freelancer.

The scary side of freelancing: the inadvertent freelancer
Not every freelancer is one by choice. The economy has thrust millions into the freelance economy. Technology can help some of them but what about the inadvertent freelancer? Who’s helping them?