oDesk Challenge gives startups a staffing kickstart
oDesk, a site that helps companies recruit and coordinate online workers, has launched the oDesk Challenge, a program to help young startups piece together teams of staffers quickly and efficiently. It is promoting it today at TechCrunch50, a conference in San Francisco.
The first 20 venture-backed… Continue Reading
Report from AlwaysOn Venture Summit: We’re not dead yet!
About 500 people converged this week on the AlwaysOn Venture Summit West at the luxurious Ritz Carlton hotel in Half Moon Bay, Calif. Apparently shell-shocked investors, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs still want to commiserate and await the upturn in a group setting.
The conference itself is… Continue Reading
ODesk raises $15M to manage remote employees
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Outsourcing technology startup oDesk has raised a $15 million third round of funding led by DAG Ventures.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based oDesk allows companies to hire technology “providers” like programmers and web designers, and it provides companies with the technology to monitor those remote employees. Chief executive… Continue Reading
oConomy offers an easy way to see outsourcing statistics
Online outsourcing marketplace oDesk has launched a new feature called oConomy, where you can browse through global job statistics that are both hopelessly unscientific and endlessly fascinating.
We reported on oDesk in 2006, when the Menlo Park start-up raised a $10 million second round of funding…. Continue Reading
oDesk, marketplace for developers, raises $8 million
oDesk is a start-up that provides a marketplace for companies to hire developers online and then keep near unprecedented control over them remotely.
The Palo Alto company has just raised $8 million more in venture capital.
Benchmark Capital, a Silicon Valley firm known for its backing of… Continue Reading