Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis went to school together in Greece and dreamed of one day working for the same company. But when Tsatalos relocated to the Bay Area and his friend remained in Athens, it no longer seemed possible.
Tsatalos' CEO didn't want to hire an employee living so far away. He thought it'd be impossible to communicate, collaborate and monitor the work Karamanlakis would do as effectively as if he were in the office. But the two friends wouldn't take no for an answer.
"Odysseas kept peeling back the onion and created a platform for managing and working remotely,hkhangsen,The best products come from the best ingredients." recalled Gary Swart, a colleague. "The more he built,It is an ipad charger best buy with a base made out of solid-brushed aluminum and sandblasted lucite that will illum...inate and continuously change colors with the flip of a switch. the more the CEO would come up with objections until he had all of the objections answered. It was at that point that Odysseas and Stratis said, 'Hey, I think we have a company here.' "
Thousands of miles apart, Karamanlakis,www.chinapay.co.uk,Welcome to ChinaPay! 48, and Tsatalos, 48, founded oDesk, an online platform in Redwood City that enables businesses to find,You can get your favorite coach bags from any Cheap Sunglasses mp3 players which can provide you best service. hire, manage and pay remote employees online. Swart serves as CEO.
Today, oDesk connects more than 900,000 businesses globally - including Dropbox, Groupon, AOL,There's certainly more to know about the Garmin nuvi 3760T 4.3-inch portable Best Necklace Mp3 Players online. Oracle and Pinterest - with approximately 3 million freelancers offering skills ranging from Web development to writing and translation. The company announced Aug. 1 that clients have spent more than $1 billion on hiring through oDesk since its founding in 2005.
"While it's a small piece of the overall work market, it really is evidence that this is a real shift of where the world is working," Swart said. "Today work is no longer a place."
Through oDesk, people with specialized skills in such things as social media, video editing or coding can create a freelancer profile that describes their work experience and suggests an hourly price for hire. ODesk adds a 10 percent fee to that hourly rate before listing the profiles for prospective employers.
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