![]() ODesk empowers entrepreneurs to break these barriers by hiring the best talent regardless of geography, managing online teams as if they shared an office, and paying freelancers seamlessly, even across international borders. “And even after you’ve managed to hire, the war for talent is not over-retaining star employees is often cost-prohibitive for startups.” ![]() ![]() “Even if the ideal hire lives within a 50-mile commuting radius, startups will need a plan to actually find, attract, and afford them,” said oDesk CEO Gary Swart. If it weren’t for oDesk I would have to hire an individual and pay them- I would have that individual on the payroll and working on a concept that potentially wasn’t going to work out.” If it pans out, it’s a new revenue feature. Nick Blasgen, founder of Refractive Dialer (a cloud-based dialing system for Salesforce) says, “It probably costs me a few hundred dollars to give me an idea of whether we can pursue it. Experimenting with new features, programs or prototypes, with minimal risk: Startups can also hire freelancers to do proofs of concept.“As long as oDesk exists, projects that don’t match the founders’ skill sets should be delegated.” “Every startup should be thinking about how to best leverage their founding team,” said Teddle co-founder Alex Depledge. SEM is now their main source of acquisition, fueling 291% growth in three months. So they hired an SEM consultant on oDesk, saving the founders 30 hours per week. Delegating tasks when the core team doesn’t have expertise: The founders of Teddle, a London-based startup for booking cleaning services backed by Springboard (now Techstars London), lacked Google AdWords skills.“And oDesk not only made it easy to find these people, but to also manage their daily work priorities and tasks, and tightly control the quality of their output.” Scaling a “bench” of talent up or down in response to demand: “It dawned on me that there was a whole world of people who could actually help out.” said Matthew Ogston, the co-founder of UK-based startup JobPage.We found so much affordable, quality talent on oDesk that we’re looking to hire on a long-term basis.” “We came to oDesk looking for temporary Python developers. Hiring experts for the skills they need, especially those difficult to source locally: “One of the biggest benefits of using oDesk is finding experts with skills that I can’t find in London or Lisbon,” said Celso Pinto, CEO of Seedcamp-backed SimpleTax. ![]() Startups that take advantage of the Upstarts program leverage online work in four ways: From London to Dubai and Toronto to Tokyo, entrepreneurs face a common challenge: finding, affording, hiring, and retaining the tech talent they need to build their businesses. No matter where a startup is located, access to talent is a universal challenge-especially for resource-constrained, early-stage ventures. Program solves talent shortages in startup hub cities and rural areas
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