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Is the U.S. Becoming Less Entrepreneurial?

Small Business Labs

  Using contingent labor has gotten easier and more effective due to the growth of online talent exchanges such as Elance and oDesk, improvements in collaborative technologies for managing non-employees and growing numbers independent workers available for hire. micropreneurs is growing. freelance jobs per month. 

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Your Business Failed, What’s Next?

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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. Without understanding exactly why you failed, you can’t use that failure to inform future decisions.

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Jinglesmart - Online Project Marketplace for the Jingles Industry

Small Business Labs

.  The best known of the firms in this industry are probably oDesk and Elance.   A wide variety of talent can be hired at oDesk or Elance, everything from computer programmers to virtual assistants to writers.   But there are a growing number of industry vertical job and project marketplaces springing up.

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Businesses Hiring More Freelancers

Small Business Labs

No doubt not by coincidence, the company that sponsored this research - Elance  - recently announced a tool to help mid-sized companies do just that.  Elance's announcement came shortly after MBO Partners (an Emergent Research client) and Work Market announced a similar offering called The Managed Contractor Cloud.

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Online Talent Marketplaces Continue Rapid Expansion

Small Business Labs

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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Coworking in India

Small Business Labs

India is the second largest player in freelancing after the US, according to Elance, an online service that connects freelancers to projects, with average earnings of about $15 per hour and rising.

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Moonlighting: Booming or Declining?

Small Business Labs

A recent study by the Freelancers Union and Elance paints a very different picture.   The Freelancers Union/Elance report says multiple job holders fall into two broad segments: Moonlighters (14.3 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). They say there at least 23.6 million Americans who work 2 or more jobs. job market and economy. .

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