Freelancers and the Internet are a perfect pair. Today, online workplace Elance-oDesk announced it has raised $30 million to help more freelancers work online.
Last December, freelancer marketplaces Elance.com and oDesk merged but kept their separate brands. Elance CEO Fabio Rosati became head of the combined company, while oDesk CEO Gary Swart became a strategic advisor. Both sites focus on freelance jobs that can be conducted remotely, such as software programming, writing, customer service, administrative support, and marketing.
Sólo cuatro de cada diez empresas que se crearon en 2007 sobrevivían cinco años después, según los indicadores de demografía empresarial hechos públicos hoy por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).
Worldwide, politicians and policymakers lust after innovation, proclaiming it to be the ultimate solution to all economic maladies everywhere. Practically every country aspires to create its own Silicon Valley.
What a bad idea.
Not only is Silicon Valley pretty much impossible to recreate as an innovation eco-system, it’s also no longer the only global paradigm for innovation. The world has changed — drastically. But our understanding of how innovation works, and who benefits, has failed to change with it.
It looks so easy from the outside. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s.
But now there is evidence that venture-backed start-ups fail at far higher numbers than the rate the industry usually cites.
About three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return investors' capital, according to recent research by Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
En el marco del Social Innovation Lab en Oñati en el que participan MU Enpresagintza, MIK y Mondragon Team Academy se organiza el primer Foro de Tendencias e Internacionalización TIF el 21 de Noviembre de 12:00 a 14:00 en el campus de Oñati de MU Enpresagintza.
El TIF es un evento acerca de procesos de internacionalización desde una perspectiva teórica (con investigadores de MIK) y práctica, con ejemplos prácticos. Será un world café, dinámico, basado en el diálogo y con lunch incluido.
Anna Lozabai, uno de los proyectos ganadores de la primera edición de Lanzadera, el programa de apoyo a emprendedores de Juan Roig, ha abierto hoy su showroom en Madrid. La firma de moda, que ofrece prendas exclusivas, a medida, con patrones diferentes y telas de primera calidad, se acerca en este nuevo espacio físico a sus clientas para una atención más directa y personalizada.
After 22 years, one groundbreaking cancer treatment, and even more ups and downs than the volatile biotech industry would consider normal, Seattle-based Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) has filed for bankruptcy.
The company and its prostate-cancer treatment sipuleucel-T (Provenge) could be sold, or it could emerge from bankruptcy court with completely new ownership. From a reading of court documents, creditors would prefer a quick sale by early February. But either way, the firm’s current shareholders will likely be wiped out, and there will likely be more turmoil for the remaining 700 employees, many of whom are in Seattle.
Los centros de FP se han convertido en el «principal motor» de creación de empresas en Euskadi. Es una realidad que exhibe con orgullo el viceconsejero de Formación Profesional del Gobierno Vasco, Jorge Arévalo. Le avalan los datos. Desde el año 2004 hasta 2014, los alumnos que se titulan en la FP Superior de Euskadi, con el apoyo de los institutos y sus profesores, han creado 450 empresas. El 80% de ellas continúa funcionando a pesar de la crisis económica. Las firmas que mejor han encajado en el mercado laboral son las dedicadas a instalaciones eléctricas, electrónicas y de gas, informática, automoción, hostelería, audiovisuales o fabricación mecánica, entre otras.
How much is the hot ‘Uber for X’ category of startups booming? Total funding to ‘Uber for X’ (or ‘AirBnB for Y’) startup companies has hit $1.46 billion in the last four quarters, 94% of which came in the first three quarters of 2014. Of note, 2014 has seen nearly 20 deals per quarter go to on-demand mobile startups.
As funding piles in, this analysis takes a data-driven look at the financing trends, investors and company performance of the expanding category of on-demand mobile services startups (ODMS).
