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Demand For 3D Printing Skills Is Accelerating Globally

Demand For 3D Printing Skills Is Accelerating Globally

By Louis Columbus on September 23, 2014

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 3D printing, 3D Printing Jobs, 3D Printing Profession, 3D Printing Skills, Elance, freelance 3D printing, Louis Columbus' blog

As The Year Winds Down:  Get Some Rest.  Or You’ll End Up Washing Out in SaaS in Year 5.

As The Year Winds Down: Get Some Rest. Or You’ll End Up Washing Out in SaaS in Year 5.

By Jason M. Lemkin on December 27, 2013

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 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Elance, Entrepreneurship, oDesk, SaaS, SaaStr, startups

The Human Cloud

The Human Cloud

By Michael Fauscette on December 12, 2010

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…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Mechanical Turk, Cloud Computing, collaboration, e2.0, Elance, human cloud, oDesk, SaaS, salesforce.com, Service Cloud, Web 2.0, work

oDesk and the inadvertent freelancer

oDesk and the inadvertent freelancer

By Brian Sommer on March 18, 2010

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.

Posted in Business | Tagged Contracting, Current Affairs, Elance, Freelancer, group dynamic, India & Services, oDesk, Professional Services, Service Providers, Software developer, Software Vendors

The scary side of freelancing: the inadvertent freelancer

The scary side of freelancing: the inadvertent freelancer

By Brian Sommer on February 17, 2010

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?

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Services, Consulting, Current Affairs, Elance, Employment, Freelancer, Marketplaces, oDesk, Professional Services, Selling Professional Services, Sourcing, Think About IT | 2 Responses

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