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July 2013 Lending Club obtains Lawrence Summers, 71st Secretary of the Treasury and former World Bank Chief Economist on BoD. –2012 “Getting into the share economy was the reason Avis Budget Group CAR +0.39% last month chose to pay a whopping $500 million for Zipcar, despite the fact that the pioneering, rent-by-the-hour startup generated a paltry profit of $4.7 million over the past years.” – Forbes Jan 2013 By Vertical/Sector/Industry: Specific data that don’t fit into the above categories, but are honed in on specific verticals, often supplies from specific startups. Please note, there’s also vertical specific information in the above sections that could easily fit in both areas. Workforces on Demand “Market Share:
1.9X compared to 2nd largest online workplace.” Jobs Montenegro Email Listv Posted in 2012: 1.5 million. Registered Freelancers: 3.1 million. – Odesk.com, July 2013 “1,000 new Taskrabbits are added each month.” – Taskrabbit Slideshare, June 2013 Elance stats: “3,426,190 Jobs Posted (Lifetime), $3,727,071,739 Lifetime Value of Jobs Posted (in USD)³, Elance.com, July 29, 2013 On Taskrabbit: ” the company has received funding totalling $37.7m to date, and now has over 13,000 background-checked TaskRabbits in 14 US cities. But progress hasn’t been plain sailing. Last month Busque, 33, confirmed the company had laid off an unspecified number of staff.” The Telegraph, August, 2013 Stats shared from an oDesk study: “$1 billion+ has been spent on oDesk alone.
Desk has more than four million registered freelancers today, and 2.6 million skills tests proving their expertise were completed in the last twelve months alone. A long tail of skills is emerging In 2007 just four categories of skills represented 90% of spend on oDesk. By 2012, 35 categories represented 90% of spend. Almost 2,400 skills were listed on oDesk in the last twelve months and this number continues to climb. ” oDesk study, August 2013 Stats shared from an oDesk study on US businesses hiring: ” More than half (58%) of businesses hiring on oDesk classify themselves as startups. The availability of “talent-as-a-service” is empowering startups everywhere, by increasing flexible access to the skills they need for growth. Last year, startups in the West did the most hiring through oDesk ($104M) while the South came in a strong second ($63M), followed by the Northeast ($43M) and the Midwest ($22M).
1.9X compared to 2nd largest online workplace.” Jobs Montenegro Email Listv Posted in 2012: 1.5 million. Registered Freelancers: 3.1 million. – Odesk.com, July 2013 “1,000 new Taskrabbits are added each month.” – Taskrabbit Slideshare, June 2013 Elance stats: “3,426,190 Jobs Posted (Lifetime), $3,727,071,739 Lifetime Value of Jobs Posted (in USD)³, Elance.com, July 29, 2013 On Taskrabbit: ” the company has received funding totalling $37.7m to date, and now has over 13,000 background-checked TaskRabbits in 14 US cities. But progress hasn’t been plain sailing. Last month Busque, 33, confirmed the company had laid off an unspecified number of staff.” The Telegraph, August, 2013 Stats shared from an oDesk study: “$1 billion+ has been spent on oDesk alone.
Desk has more than four million registered freelancers today, and 2.6 million skills tests proving their expertise were completed in the last twelve months alone. A long tail of skills is emerging In 2007 just four categories of skills represented 90% of spend on oDesk. By 2012, 35 categories represented 90% of spend. Almost 2,400 skills were listed on oDesk in the last twelve months and this number continues to climb. ” oDesk study, August 2013 Stats shared from an oDesk study on US businesses hiring: ” More than half (58%) of businesses hiring on oDesk classify themselves as startups. The availability of “talent-as-a-service” is empowering startups everywhere, by increasing flexible access to the skills they need for growth. Last year, startups in the West did the most hiring through oDesk ($104M) while the South came in a strong second ($63M), followed by the Northeast ($43M) and the Midwest ($22M).