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| Top 10 Freelancing websites |
E-lancing, also known as e-labour,is the practice of taking freelancing work through online job-offers. E-lancing websites operate as hubs where employers place tasks, which freelancers from around the world bid for. Some e-lancing websites act as intermediaries for payment, paying the freelancer directly after work is completed, to mitigate the risk of non-payment.Employers posting work on these websites set the price they are willing to pay for the task proposed.
In 2012, 1.56 million people were freelancers in the United Kingdom, a rise of 11.9% since 2008.Sebastian Trenner of the World Bank wrote in 2012 that online marketplaces were unlikely to produce a significant decrease in skilled unemployment.Conversely, Karsten Geis of Empirica Capital wrote in 2014 that e-lancing would be a primary employer of the future, and that normal jobs will tend to disappear.
Notable e-lancing websites include Fiverr, Freelancer.com,Guru.com, and Upwork etc.
10.Adevinta
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| Adevinta |
Adevinta is an international company which operates online classifieds websites across Europe and internationally. It was spun off from Norwegian publishing group Schibsted in April 2019. Adevinta's CEO is Rolv Erik Ryssdal, former CEO of Schibsted.
Adevinta brands include leboncoin in France, InfoJobs in Spain , Shpock in the United Kingdom and Germany, OLX in Brazil (50% ownership), Subito in Italy, Jofogás in a Hungary, and Segundamano in Mexico.
Adevinta listed on Oslo Børs on 10 April 2019. It was Norway's largest IPO since 2006 and the fourth biggest in the country's history.
In June 2020 Adevinta won the bid to acquire eBay Classifieds Group in a deal worth $9.2 billion.The company has offices in Barcelona and Paris.
9.Expert360
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| Expert360 |
Expert360 is an online marketplace co-founded by Bridget Loudon and Emily Yue and headquartered in Sydney Australia. Expert360 acts as a digital platform for matching independent business consultants with clients (companies, organizations) for short or long term project work.The company is best known for its innovative approach to the local and international freelance marketplace.
Expert360's online platform is structured like a standard freelancing Marketplace as it provides the tools to potential employers to post and manage jobs of interest to independent consultants in the upper tier employment market. Its main consultant base is made of highly qualified workers with experience in senior or executive positions in large and stable corporations or investment firms.The marketplace also has junior representatives from management consulting and investment firms.
Expert360's clients range from small-medium businesses to enterprises such as QSHR, Woolworths and Telstra, as well as consulting and investment firms.
Website link:Www.expert360.com
8.DesignCrowd
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| DesignCrowd |
DesignCrowd is an online crowdsourcing platform founded in 2007.DesignCrowd was launched January 2008.According to the Australian Financial Review, "Alec Lynch is recognised as a founder of the design crowdsourcing concept". DesignCrowd was started In Sydney, Austalia
The company has received significant funding from Starfish Ventures.On 20 December 2011, DesignCrowd acquired Brandstack,a stock logo template marketplace where users are able to buy and sell logo templates and domains. Following the acquisition, Brandstack's name was changed to "BrandCrowd."In 2014, DesignCrowd announced that it had acquired community design contest website Worth1000 for an undisclosed amount.The company expanded to Philippines in 2014.In 2015 AirTree Ventures invested $6 million in DesignCrowd's crowdsourcing platform.
website Link:https://www.designcrowd.com/
7.GigMasters Inc.
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| Gigmasters |
GigMaster is an event services booking platform. Its headquarter is in South Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. GigMasters matches entertainers with planners of weddings, dances, parties, festivals, celebrations, and corporate events.
GigMasters was founded in 1997 by entrepreneurs Michael Caldwell and Kevin Kinyon who were based near New York. The company launched the first version of its website in February 1997. In September 2010, GigMasters raised $200,000 in expansion funding from investor James Marciano.
In 2013, about half of the company's bookings were wedding-related. In November 2013, the company raised $1.3 million in series A funding by XO Group , parent company of TheKnot.com.Kristin Savilia, XO Group's Executive Vice President, joined GigMasters' board of directors.
In September 2014, Inc. Magazine ranked GigMasters as one of the nation's 5000 fastest growing private companies.In October, 2015, the Caldwell and Kinyon, creators of GigMasters, sold the company for $8.5 million to XO Gruop.
website Link:https://www.thebash.com/
6.Toptal
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| Toptal |
Toptal is a global remote company that provides a freelancing platform connecting businesses with software engineers, designers, and business consultants. The company has no headquarters.
Taso Du Val and Breanden Beneschott founded the company in 2010. Du Val was previously an engineer at Fotolog and Slide.com while Beneschott was an undergraduate at Princeton University.The name stands for "top talent", and it was started as a virtual Company with no dedicated offices.
Toptal had more than $1 million in revenue by the time Beneschott graduated from Princeton.The co-founders moved To Budapest, Hungry to access software developers with fewer employment options than in the United States.
website Link:https://www.toptal.com/
5.MyGwork
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| MyGwork |
myGwork is a global recruitment and networking hub for LGBT professionals, graduates, allies, and organisations to promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace and beyond. It was created by twin brothers Adrien and Pierre Gaubert.myGwork is a Limited Company registered in the United Kingdom.
The company was founded when Adrien and Pierre's mother, Francoise, was worried about the prejudice they could face in their professional life for being gay. They built myGwork to address the issue of discrimination towards LGBT People in the workplace and ensure every professional equal chances to succeed.Both brothers faced homophobia or discrimination because they were gay during their previous employment.
In 2015, myGwork made it to the top 5 of startups with LGBT pride by the magazine Geektime along with Lyft, Airbnb, Square and Snapchat.
website Link:https://www.mygwork.com/en/
4.Guru.com
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| Guru |
Guru.com is a freelance marketplace .It allows companies to find freelance workers for commissioned work. Founded in 1998 in Pittsburgh as eMoonlighter.com and still headquartered there.Unicru sold the Guru.com domain name and logo to eMoonlighter.com, and eMoonlighter was renamed Guru.com.
Guru Inc. was founded in 1999 in San Francisco as an online clearing house for high tech workers seeking short-term contracts. The company, led by brothers Jon and James Slavet, raised $3M in angel funding and a further $16M in a full venture round led by Greylock Partners and August Capital. In a May 2000 interview, Paul Saffo cited Guru.com as an example of a company using the Internet to provide new kinds of services where individuals negotiated directly with potential employers.
In May 2001, Ray Marcy, who had been the CEO at Spherion, a Florida staffing company, became CEO of Guru Inc. He hired industrial psychologist Janz and Dan Crow to develop new software.
In February 2002, Guru unveiled its SmartMatch technology, which matched résumés and other information about job applicants to jobs.The company also developed a candidate profiling system using techniques from a industrial and organizational psychology to better understand a candidate's suitability for a particular job.
The company was acquired in December 2002 by Unicru, a human resources software company based in Portland, Oregon. Guru's technology and staff remained with Unicru. Guru has overall, received an approximate of $41 million in funding.
website Link:www.guru.com
3.Fiverr
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| Fiverr |
Fiverr is best know freelancing website internationally and is an American online market place for freelance services. The company provides a platform for freelancers to offer services to customers worldwide.
Fiverr was founded by Micha Kaufman and Shai Wininger, and was launched in February 2010. The founders came up with the concept of a marketplace that would provide a two sided platform for people to buy and sell a variety of digital services typically offered by freelance contractors. Services offered on the site include writing, translation, graphic design, video editing and programming.Fiverr's services start at US$5, and can go up to thousands of dollars with gig extras. Each service offered is called a "gig".
Fiverr serves to allow listing and applying for small one-off jobs, or gigs, online. Jobs listed on the platform are diverse and range from "get a well-designed business card" to "help with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and jQuery".Fiverr is a company built on the model of listing temporary WORK POSITIONS. Freelancers work in a variety of workplaces, ranging from home to office.Fiverr serves as e-commerce platform to freelancers & companies to sell their services by using their gigs. Gig is basically an advertisement of services. Gig include all the details of a services same like Ecommerce products The pricing of Gigs depends on how much a seller earns per completed task. The buyers buy services in the form of gigs.
Website link:www.fiverr.com
2.Freelancer.com
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| Freelancer |
Freelancer is an Australian freelance marketplace website, which allows potential employers to post jobs that freelancers can then bid to complete. Founded in 2009, its headquarters is located in Sydney, Australia , though it also has offices In Vancouver, London ,Buenos Aires, Manila, And Jakarta.
Freelancer is a marketplace where employers and employees are able to find each other. The site allows employers to post work for site members who place bids in A competitive tender process. The site also allows members to host and enter contests for which prize money is offered as a reward. Freelancers and employers develop profiles on the site as they offer, win and complete work and write and receive reviews of people they work with or for. The site's members receive a finite number of bids to use on the site, which are periodically replenished. A series of account options are offered, ranging from free accounts through to professional subscriptions.
Freelancer takes a 10% fee, which can be reduced with paid monthly membership, with a minimum fee of $5.The company has recently announced its new move into home and local services, staying first in its home market of Australia.
Most of Freelancer's users come from India, the United States, Philippines, Pakistan and the UK, but it is represented through its user network in 247 countries, regions and territories; and in both emerging and developed markets. The top three job categories that most frequently get job requests are IT and software, 34%; design, media and architecture, 31%; and writing and content, 13%. The company has offices in Manila, Philippines; Sydney, Australia; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Buenos Aires, Argentina; London, United Kingdom; and Jakarta, Indonesia.
link:www.freelancer.com
1.Upwork
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| Upwork |
Upwork, formerly Elance-oDesk, is an American freelancing platform where enterprises and individuals connect in order to conduct business. In 2015, the Elance-oDesk merger was rebranded as Upwork and the company's full name is now Upwork Global Inc. Upwork is currently based in Santa Clara and San Francisco,California, though it serves clients around the world.
Upwork has over eighteen million registered freelancers and five million registered clients.Three million jobs worth over $1Bn USD are posted annually, making Upwork the largest freelancer marketplace in the world.
Elance was founded in 1998 by MIT graduate Beerud Sheth and Wall Street veteran Srini Anumolu in a two-bedroom apartment in Jersey City. In December of 1999, the company's 22 employees relocated To Sunnyvale, in the heart of California's Silicon Vellay. Elance's first product was the Elance Small Business Marketplace.
oDesk was founded in 2003 by two friends, Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis,who wanted to work together even though one of them was in the U.S. and the other was in Greece. Originally created as a staffing firm, oDesk was eventually built into an online marketplace that allowed registered users to find, hire, and collaborate with remote workers.
Elance and oDesk announced their merger on December 18, 2013 to create Elance-oDesk. In 2015, the new company was rebranded as Upwork, which coincided with an upgrade of the oDesk platform under the same name. The newly-named Upwork also planned to phase out the Elance platform within a couple of years. Though generally reliable, the Upwork platform has experienced brief outages. The most major to date occurred in September 2015, leading to an apology from then-CEO Stephane Kasriel.
The company was listed on the Inc.5000 list from 2009-2014 and filed for an initial public offering on October 3, 2018.
website Link:www.upwork.comwww.upwork.com
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